Account Planning Manager

the7stars is the UK’s largest independent media agency, offering the best people, the best service and the most creative media campaigns. Our clients include Admiral, The Financial Times, Gousto, Iceland and The Postcode Lottery. By championing transparency, our goal was to deliver award-winning work for clients across all sectors, whilst fostering a truly vibrant and inclusive culture that welcomes the best industry talent from all walks of life.

We have graced The Sunday Times Best Companies to Work list for thirteen consecutive years, whilst also being crowned Campaign’s Best Place to Work on three occasions. Our work has garnered acclaim from the likes of IPA, WARC, Effie, Media Week, Thinkbox, Campaign Magazine, The Drum, AdWeek, and more.

Your clients will have a focus on Retail and FMCG but each one has a different operating practice. Within the mix there are clients who will need you to think smart and act fast, and all of them expect us to do the right thing for their business.

Your role will be at the heart of each of the accounts you work on. As well as working directly with the client, you’ll need to be well versed in all media channels - AV, radio, press, OOH and digital. You will be part of the account management team, making sure the clients love working with us and that we are delivering outstanding work for them.

• Being a key day to day contact for clients – helping to maintain a strong working relationship and ensuring they are kept up to date with all activity on the account.
• Using industry tools and client insights and data to pull together channel implementation recommendations.
• Building out audiences using TGI and YouGov Profiles as well as working with data and insights to create more sophisticated segmentations.
• Liaising across all other specialist teams at the7stars to ensure best practice implementation across all plans.
• Monitoring campaign performance whilst active; coordinating this with channel teams and updating clients on performance throughout the campaign.
• Coordinating and collating central account management documents such as year plans, finance tracker for the use of the wider team as well as being the main client contact for any and all account queries.
• Excel skills at an intermediate level are ideal (pivot tables, functions etc) you will create plans and reporting analyses using this.
• Building and maintaining relationships with key media owner and external partners and being confident in negotiating the best opportunities for your clients with them.
• Sharing best practice work with the wider agency – e.g. in company meetings, case studies, website, social etc.
• Working alongside sidebar teams + specialists at the7stars to upskill self (understanding data, insights, strategy, digital etc).
• Experience agency side working as a media planning or similar position.
• Experience in online and offline media planning and/or buying, and be a quick learner who enjoys developing their expertise across more platforms.
• You will have excellent time management skills and the ability to multi-task working towards key deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

Our working pattern is Monday-Thursday in our Covent Garden offices, followed by hybrid working on Friday. Have the freedom to design a flexible approach to your working life. Join a business that does more than just media – that gives 5% of its profits back into the community.

the7stars is committed to creating a diverse environment, where employees feel empowered to share different ideas, perspectives and experiences in a collaborative and creative work environment. Equality and inclusion are at the heart of our culture. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race (which includes colour, nationality and ethnic or national origins), religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.