Senior Digital Planning Manager

This role is an opportunity to join one of our core planning teams as a Senior Digital Account Manager, taking ownership of digital planning, coordination and performance across key clients including People’s Postcode Lottery, Gousto and Vanguard. These brands are growing rapidly and increasing their digital investment, giving you the chance to shape integrated digital plans and guide delivery across channels.

You’ll bring solid digital foundations and the ambition to broaden your planning responsibilities while working closely with activation specialists. With the support of a collaborative team, you’ll help connect strategy through to execution, ensuring campaigns run smoothly and drive measurable impact. Strong organisation, attention to detail, proactive client servicing and a genuine desire to push both your clients’ performance and your own development will be key to succeeding in this role.

Core responsibilities:

• Act as a main daily digital contact, ensuring strategy carries through into clear, integrated plans and accurate campaign delivery.
• Support the Digital Lead and Planning Leads in maintaining strong client relationships and contributing to planning outputs.
• Shape digital planning across accounts, combining channels into a cohesive narrative and constructively challenging specialists.
• Help plan and coordinate structured tests across creative, audiences or formats, working with specialists to gather learnings that guide future optimisation.
• Partner with activation teams to deliver campaigns smoothly, maintaining strong attention to detail in a fast paced environment.
• Communicate performance clearly, acting as a trusted point of contact for results, targets and recommendations across brand and performance activity.
• Lead digital client and internal meetings, managing agendas, actions and follow ups.
• Oversee account management processes including finance, campaign set up, reporting, optimisation and reconciliation.
• Own plans and schematics, ensuring they are accurate, updated and aligned with client strategy.
• Brief, manage and coordinate channel specialists to ensure high quality, timely work that reflects strategic priorities.
• Manage daily campaign operations to ensure accuracy, efficiency and quality control across all digital activity.
• Set and uphold reporting schedules, ensuring insights and recommendations offer clear cross channel context.
• Create clean, well structured decks, updates and summaries that make digital performance easy for clients to understand and engage with.
• Maintain and further strong working knowledge across digital media channels; paid social, paid search and programmatic, with a proactive approach to broadening channel expertise.

Talk to us if you want to:

• Work with the largest independent, free thinking, fast moving media agency in the UK.
• Be surrounded by a diverse team of talented thinkers, who love the work they do.
• Have the freedom to design a flexible approach to your working life.
• Be challenged to learn and grow every day.
• Work with a business that does more than just media – that gives 5% of its profits back into the community.
• Be part of a culture that encourages creativity, entrepreneurialism and most importantly of all… fun.

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.