the7stars
Planning Account Director
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The role
As a result of recent new business wins and our continued growth, we're hiring Planning Account Directors to join one of our planning teams.
The roles sit across three distinct client portfolios, spanning healthcare and consumer brands (food, drink and household brands), as well as retail and consumer brands (food, drink, wine, spirits and household brands). Together, they offer the opportunity to work with a diverse mix of established household names and newly won clients, each with their own unique commercial challenges and ambitious growth plans.
Whether you're helping shape the communications strategy for a newly won healthcare brand, developing integrated campaigns for some of the UK's best-known consumer brands, or leading planning for one of the UK's largest retailers, you'll play a key role in delivering audience-first media strategies that create meaningful business impact.
Across every role, you'll lead client relationships, develop strategic media recommendations and work closely with specialists across the agency to create integrated campaigns spanning AV, audio, OOH, digital, social and retail media. You'll bring together the right people, insights and thinking to deliver exceptional work, while helping clients navigate an increasingly complex media landscape.
The clients
Portfolio One – Healthcare & Consumer Brands (food, drink and household brands)
Combining a newly won healthcare client with a portfolio of established consumer brands, this role focuses on building integrated, audience-first media strategies that support long-term brand growth while delivering measurable commercial outcomes.
Portfolio Two – Retail & Consumer Brands (food, drink, wine, spirits and household brands)
Working across one of the UK's best-known retailers alongside a portfolio of premium consumer brands, this role offers a varied mix of integrated retail planning, annual brand strategy, commercial analysis and measurement.
Portfolio Three – Healthcare & Consumer Brands (food, drink and household brands)
This portfolio combines a major newly won healthcare client with a leading consumer food business, offering the opportunity to develop integrated, full-funnel media strategies across a portfolio of well-known household brands.
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Key Responsibilities
- Lead the client team across day-to-day account management & media planning work.
- Focus on delivering best in class media planning proposals & maintaining excellent industry leading relationships.
- Work closely with Planning BD to share and build your client knowledge that informs great media planning responses clearly aligned to the client's needs.
- Responsible for developing the media planning proposal and managing the coordination of agency team, i.e. specialist contribution to planning proposals, client meetings and campaign reviews & supporting analysis.
- Man marking your equivalent clients; supporting and challenging them as necessary to build a true partnership.
- Supporting the BD in shaping & delivering relevant proactive work to Marketing leads which goes beyond the brief and steers the relationship away from becoming transactional.
- Champion and integrate agency tools and tech to supercharge planning responses.
About You
We’re looking for someone who thrives in a free-thinking, entrepreneurial environment and is excited by the chance to shape great planning work. You’ll have:
Core Skills & Experience
- Strong media planning experience with solid multi-channel understanding (online & offline).
- Evidence of leading client relationships, planning responses and integrated campaign delivery.
- Deep understanding of OOH, ATL and digital channels, including partners, processes and strengths/limitations.
- Strong presentation, communication and relationship-building skills.
- Confidence leading meetings and managing fast-moving workloads, quick turnarounds and shifting priorities.
- Impeccable attention to detail and a solutions-first mindset.
- Familiarity with tools such as Telmar, TGI, Nielsen, Brand Index and SimilarWeb.
What You’re Like
- Strategic, curious and commercially minded.
- Entrepreneurial and energized by autonomy rather than rigid structures.
- Driven to deliver excellent work and excited by big ideas.
- Comfortable challenging yourself and others to raise the bar.
- Passionate about the role of media and communications in driving business outcomes.
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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.
And 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 & buy media how we want, develop careers how we want, take holiday when we need it, invent tools when we need them, give people a platform to speak up, question and express themselves freely – but more importantly it has allowed us to create an amazing place to work.
We have a unique working environment and open structure which encourages personal development through client contact, team work, training, exposure to all media and internal teams – and a “sky’s the limit” approach to your growth within the agency.
the7stars is 300 passionate media people that are able to focus purely on creating great work for our clients.
If thinking freely and with integrity is your bag, then the7stars is an agency you should meet.
Expect:
- A flat structure with real ownership from day one.
- A collaborative, diverse team of brilliant thinkers.
- Freedom to design a flexible approach to your working life.
- A business that gives 5% of its profits back into the community.
- A place where personal development is encouraged and supported.
- A genuinely fun, creative and non-political environment.
Benefits
A comprehensive package including:
- Competitive salary
- Uncounted holiday
- Summer profit-share and Christmas bonus (discretionary)
- Hybrid working and flexibility
- Personalised training plan & coaching
- Wellbeing days
- Flexible pension plan
- Optional private medical insurance & cashback plan
- Life Assurance, Critical Illness and Income Protection
- Gym membership
- Enhanced family policies
- “Work from anywhere” allowance
- EV scheme, tech & cycle scheme
- Season ticket loans and expensed Railcard
- Company bar
- New Business Bonus eligibility in year one
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