Investment Solutions Director

Company Description

Who We Are in the UK? Spark Foundry, the Acceleration Agency. We help brands to identify, learn and respond to opportunities faster than the competition. Every client has an area of their business they need to accelerate, from short-term goals to long-term transformation. We’ve proven our approach during the most difficult year on record. Now we’re using it to provide a launchpad for their future. Come be an accelerator with us.

How we accelerate:

• Planning: an approach that works in practice rather than theory, arming planners with the ability to create cutting edge campaigns.
• Intelligence: a suite of tools that give definitive answers to big questions, and uncovers actionable insights about real people.
• Trading: a model built on flexibility and trusted relationships, underpinned with bold guarantees.
• Relationships: a culture of asking challenging questions to better understand the brief – we are not a ‘yes’ agency.
• People: a strong history of recruiting talent from diverse backgrounds and accelerating their careers.

Our Commitment

We are diverse through our experience, people and the clients we look after - and we celebrate that diversity. Our people hold us accountable to our beliefs and via regular surveys and our grass roots D&I team, The Collective, and internal next generation board, Firestarters, we hold regular events and work continually towards generating ideas, initiatives and educating our people to ensure we are a diverse and inclusive agency. As part of our dedication to create an inclusive and diverse workforce, Spark Foundry is committed to equal access to opportunity for people without regard to race, age, sex, disability, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, gender identity or religion.

Overview

We are hiring an Investment Solutions Director to join PMX Spark Foundry and help clients turn complex media challenges into smart, commercially effective investment strategies. Bringing expertise from AV, Publishing and Audio, Programmatic, Social or Search, you will collaborate across channels to create integrated solutions that deliver meaningful value. You will become a trusted partner to clients and planning teams while expanding your knowledge across the wider media landscape. This is an exciting opportunity to influence major investment decisions, champion innovation and help shape market-leading work.

Responsibilities

What you'll be doing:

• Build a strong understanding of your clients’ business goals, commercial commitments and media challenges, then recommend investment solutions that address them.
• Act as a trusted client partner in briefings, quarterly business reviews and key meetings, providing clear market perspectives and practical recommendations.
• Collaborate with planning, strategy and channel specialists to develop integrated, innovative and commercially effective media plans.
• Lead investment forecasting for your clients, ensuring submissions are accurate, timely and aligned with relevant commercial targets.
• Monitor developments including pricing, measurement, AI, sustainability and changes to the digital ecosystem, helping clients navigate emerging opportunities and challenges.
• Shape investment responses for new business opportunities, creating a clear cross-channel narrative and coordinating input from activation specialists.
• Share knowledge across the investment community, build expertise beyond your original specialism and contribute to effective ways of working across channels.

Qualifications

Skills we're looking for:

• Strong media investment experience, with specialist knowledge in at least one area such as AV, Publishing and Audio, Programmatic, Social or Search.
• A clear understanding of implementational planning and buying, together with the ability to translate media knowledge into effective client solutions.
• Confidence building trusted relationships with clients and communicating considered recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Commercial awareness, including the ability to understand client commitments, trading considerations and opportunities to create additional value.
• A collaborative approach and experience of working effectively with planning, strategy, investment and activation teams.
• Curiosity about the changing media landscape and a commitment to developing broader cross-channel knowledge.
• Strong organisational and communication skills, with the ability to oversee forecasts, investment responses and multiple stakeholder contributions accurately.

Additional Information

Spark Foundry offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees. Full details are shared when you join, but highlights include core benefits such as Pension, Life Assurance, and Private Medical cover, alongside enhanced policies like Reflection Days and Shared Parental Leave.

You’ll also have access to a range of additional initiatives, including: Publicis Groupe works primarily from the office or our clients' office four days per week. At Spark Foundry, we welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion or belief, disability, age, citizenship, relationship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected characteristic. We are committed to providing a fair, accessible, and inclusive recruitment process. If you have any access needs - for example, related to disability, neurodivergence, or a health condition - please let us know. We’ll work with you to ensure the process works for you. Sharing this information will never impact your application.

Guided by our values, we listen with empathy, uplift each other, take responsibility, and embrace change - building a culture where everyone feels seen, respected, and genuinely included.