Planning Account Manager

About the7stars

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.

Since our inception in 2005, we set out on a mission – to inspire the exceptional and defeat the bad and the boring. By championing transparency, our goalwas 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.

20 years on, we have achieved all of this and more. 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 fromthe likes of IPA, WARC, Effie, Media Week, Thinkbox, Campaign Magazine, The Drum, AdWeek, and more. We have continued to grow our agency every single year, delivered show-stopping work for our clients, and have consistently delivered exceptional media value.

You will be joining one of our 4 client teams, who, like the rest of the7stars challenge themselves to deliver bespoke strategies for their clients. Your clients will have a focus on Retail and FMCG but each one has a different operating practise. 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. You will be responsible for keeping across everything happening – the money being spent, where, when and how so your ATD will be second to none and you’ll be a self-starter who’s looking for client accountability.

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
• Obtaining briefs from clients + working with relevant the7stars teams to create client responses
• Using industry tools and client insights and data to pull together channel implementation recommendations
• Presenting recommendations to clients alongside media plans
• Building out audiences using TGI and You Gov 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
• Active member of the7stars leadership teams
• Participation in the7stars wide initiatives, including Values Weeks
• Getting involved with relevant pitches + new biz leads
• Working alongside sidebar teams + specialists at the7stars to…