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Role Outline
We're looking for a passionate and experienced AV Account Director to become a key member of our AV team.
Our AV team is ambitious, forward-thinking and constantly challenges itself to create bespoke broadcast strategies for clients, whatever the budget. You'll work across a varied portfolio, leading the planning and buying of TV, VOD, Cinema, YouTube and Sponsorship campaigns for some of our most exciting clients, spanning everything from major brand campaigns to bespoke video solutions and performance-led activity.
You'll combine strategic thinking with hands-on AV expertise, helping clients understand the value of great broadcast planning whilst delivering consistently strong commercial outcomes. Alongside leading campaigns, you'll guide longer-term AV strategy, maintain exceptional audit performance, build strong relationships with media owners, and play an important role in developing and mentoring junior team members.
Working closely with client teams, commercial teams and media partners, you'll ensure every campaign is delivered to the highest possible standard while continuing to challenge convention and find new ways to create competitive advantage for our clients.
Responsibilities
As AV Account Director, you will:
- Use media planning and buying products, tools and services to deliver best-in-class AV campaigns.
- Work closely with internal client teams to deliver clear and effective recommendations, reporting and campaign analysis across TV, VOD, Cinema, YouTube and Sponsorship.
- Use your planning expertise and communication skills to guide long-term AV strategy for clients.
- Take ownership of TV and video campaign performance, ensuring delivery against commercial agreements, audit criteria, reccie positions and financial targets.
- Lead Audits and PRIP delivery, working closely with our Commercial team.
- Support, coach and develop junior team members, promoting best practice in campaign management and performance monitoring.
- Build strong relationships with media owners, negotiating effectively to secure the best possible value and competitive advantage for clients.
- Oversee the development and progression of your direct reports.
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Requirements
We're looking for someone with the experience to lead from the front and the ambition to continue developing their career within a growing independent agency.
You'll be able to demonstrate:
- Broadcast and TV buying experience across a variety of clients.
- Experience planning and buying TV, Cinema and Online Video.
- The ability to think strategically and develop creative solutions to client briefs.
- Experience managing AV audits and audit trackers.
- Strong numeracy, attention to detail and time management.
- Excellent written and verbal presentation skills.
- Confidence challenging colleagues, clients and media owners where appropriate.
- Experience briefing and managing media owners.
- A collaborative approach and the ability to work effectively across teams.
- The ability to think beyond the traditional TV spot and develop broader AV solutions.
We're also looking for someone who:
- Gets excited by solving client challenges and believes communications can make a genuine difference to businesses.
- Has confidence in their ideas and the business acumen to back them up.
- Sees media as just one part of the overall solution.
- Is committed to delivering exceptional client service.
- Is passionate about negotiating the very best outcomes for clients.
- Wants to grow with an ambitious independent agency and embrace the responsibility that comes with that growth.
- Has an entrepreneurial mindset and wants to do the best work of their career.
- Is looking for an alternative to the rigid structures often found in larger network agencies.
About the7stars
The7stars is unlike any other agency. The distinction started the day we launched in 2005 when we named ourselves after a pub, but more importantly when we made a promise that we were going to do things differently.
This commitment has stuck with us. It guides how we work, how we think and how we treat one another – and can be expressed in a single word: Freedom.
Our Freedom philosophy lives across our entire business – from people, product and planning. It means we plan and buy media how we want, develop careers how we want, take holiday when we need it, invent tools when we need them, and give people a platform to speak up, question and express themselves freely. Most importantly, it's allowed us to create an amazing place to work.
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We've been named Campaign's Best Place to Work in 2020, 2022 and 2023, and one of the UK's Best Companies to Work For every year for the last 12 years.
We're a 300-strong team focused on creating great work for clients like Warner Music, Entain, Suzuki, Gousto, Freemans and The People's Postcode Lottery. While UK focused, we also operate within an agile global network of like-minded partners.
If thinking freely and with integrity is your bag, then the7stars is an agency you should meet.
Benefits
We offer a genuinely differentiated benefits package that goes well beyond the basics, including:
- Uncapped holiday policy and monthly Star Days for wellbeing.
- Private Medical Insurance (Vitality) and Medicash cashback for dental, optical and physiotherapy.
- Free gym membership with a choice of Virgin Active, Nuffield Health, Fitness First and other local gyms.
- Free breakfast, on-site juice and smoothie bar, and no timesheets.
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and fostering leave, including phased return-to-work support, enhanced pay, a Gousto box when your baby arrives home, a £200 maternity bonus, nursery fee tax savings and a Parent Buddy programme.
- New Business Bonus worth 5% of first-year revenue, plus discretionary summer profit share and Christmas bonus linked to business performance.
- Royal London pension, including a Green Pension option.
- Life Assurance, Critical Illness cover and Income Protection.
- Employee Assistance Programme, wellbeing support and personal finance advice.
- Interest-free season ticket loans, Cycle to Work scheme, Techscheme and electric vehicle salary sacrifice.
- The infamous company bar, regular media owner events and a dog-friendly office.
Our working pattern is Monday to Thursday in our Covent Garden office, with hybrid working on Fridays.
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