It's also part of the7stars Group, combining the autonomy, agility, and creativity of a smaller agency with access to specialist expertise across Partnerships, Production, Trading, Ad-tech, Data Analysis, and an IPA effectiveness-accredited team.

The culture is underpinned by three values:

• No Sacred Cows – The question you shouldn't ask is probably the one you should.
• Don't Follow The Herd – We're here to do things differently to the way everyone else does it.
• No Bullst** – Always tell the truth, no matter how uncomfortable.

What You'll Be Doing

You'll be responsible for the quality of the work across your accounts and for setting the standard for the team around you.

That includes:

• Acting as the senior day-to-day lead for your clients, developing exceptional relationships, and maintaining complete oversight of your accounts.
• Getting under the skin of your clients' businesses, markets, and competitors, and using that knowledge to spot opportunities and challenge thinking.
• Taking client briefs and working across Bountiful Cow's teams to develop rigorous, distinctive, and commercially grounded responses.
• Building and presenting media strategies, recommendations, and plans confidently and persuasively.
• Coordinating channel plans and maintaining oversight of campaign setup, delivery, and performance.
• Constantly looking for opportunities to create Relative Advantage rather than defaulting to established category conventions.
• Running regular account stand-ups and creating clarity, accountability, and momentum across your team.
• Delegating effectively while remaining accountable for the quality of everything produced across your accounts.
• Coaching and developing junior team members and creating opportunities for them to take greater ownership.
• Challenging weak thinking, poor recommendations, or avoidable mistakes before they reach the client.
• Leading new-business pitches and contributing to the wider growth of the agency.
• Acting as the client's advocate internally and ensuring recommendations genuinely serve their interests.
• Building strong relationships with media owners, partners, and specialist teams.
• Owning account management processes and documentation, including finance trackers, forecasts, contractual commitments, and key account records.
• Using industry planning tools such as Telmar and TGI to develop audiences and support recommendations with robust reach and frequency analysis.
• Grounding recommendations in evidence, campaign learning, competitive intelligence, market insight, and effectiveness principles.
• Using AI, data, and insight tools to accelerate analysis, uncover opportunities, and help identify Relative Advantage.
• Translating campaign performance into meaningful client reporting, insight, and clear recommendations.
• Overseeing competitive reporting and campaign analysis while supporting junior members of the team in developing these skills.
• Working closely with Bountiful Cow's Activation teams across AV, radio, and digital.
• Briefing and coordinating with Talon to develop effective Out of Home plans.
• Planning and trading print campaigns where required alongside the wider team and the7stars Group trading team.
• Staying ahead of developments across media and proactively bringing relevant thinking, opportunities, and recommendations to clients.

What We're Looking For

You'll need demonstrable experience in a client-facing media planning role, with strong cross-channel knowledge and the confidence to operate as a senior day-to-day client lead.

The important thing is the combination of proper planning ability and strong client leadership. You should enjoy getting into the work rather than seeing an Account Director role purely as relationship management. You'll need to be comfortable moving between strategy and execution, keeping an eye on the detail while still being senior and credible enough to lead client conversations.

You'll ideally bring:

• Strong media planning and buying knowledge across channels.
• Experience managing multiple clients, categories, or workstreams simultaneously.
• The ability to understand a client's commercial challenge and translate it into a clear media approach.
• Experience building presentations and presenting recommendations confidently to clients.
• The confidence to challenge clients and colleagues constructively when you believe there's a better answer.
• Strong relationships with clients, media owners, and internal teams.
• Experience managing and developing more junior team members.
• Strong Excel skills.
• Genuine curiosity about clients, categories, media, and the wider market.
• A high bar for detail, quality, and execution.

Experience planning and/or buying press is useful, but isn't essential for this particular role. We're open to people from both independent and network agency backgrounds. You also don't necessarily need to be an Account Director already – a strong Senior Account Manager who is already operating at this level and ready to take broader ownership could be equally relevant.

Perks, Benefits & Ways of Working

• Location: Covent Garden, London
• Hybrid: 3 days per week in the office

Benefits include:

• 27 days' holiday, increasing by one day with each year of service up to 30 days
• Discretionary summer profit-share bonus and Christmas bonus
• Private Medical Insurance through Vitality
• Medicash medical cashback plan
• Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover
• Choice of five gyms
• Employee assistance programme and wellbeing support
• Season ticket loan
• Enhanced family-friendly leave and pay, including extended leave, a Gousto box following the arrival of a baby, and access to coaching
• Royal London pension, including an 8% employer contribution up to £35k

It's a role for someone who wants the breadth, autonomy, and creative freedom of an independent agency, while still having the specialist resources, training, buying clout, and career development opportunities that come with being part of the UK's largest independent agency group.