Planning Account Manager - 6 month FTC

The Role

This role is to cover a 6-month period from Jan-June 2026 and will be supporting across a range of music and entertainment clients.

You will be an ambitious Planner with strong foundational media channel knowledge.

You’ll be excited about the potential to broaden your role by working within the Planning & Client leadership team, taking on responsibilities across account management as well as building your planning and digital skills.

Great organisation, excellent attention to detail, ambition and a passion for client servicing are critical.

Key Responsibilities:
- You'll be supporting the planning leads and senior planners across your patch, understanding the music album and single charts, and how paid media can leverage and influence artist chart positions
- You will understand the nuances of different artists we work with and how their fan bases behave and operate, how paid media can reach existing and potential fans and feel confident to share your opinions in client and internal meetings alike
- You'll demonstrate an excellent attention to detail within all your work
- Be able to manage multiple clients and campaigns and effectively prioritise campaigns
- You'll be eager to develop your media planning skillsets across above the line and digital channels
- You'll be adept at using all tools necessary to track competitor activity, with the ability to draw upon clear insights and implications for your clients from your analysis
- You'll contribute to media planning responses using industry tools and client insights and data to input into media planning
- You'll plan and buy outdoor activity, liaising with our agency partners Talon
- You will have good knowledge of social (esp. Meta, TikTok and YouTube) and be able to plan and buy media across these platforms
- You'll be proactive in building great working relationships with specialist channels teams and other teams across the business, to ensure best practice, consistency and quality across the plans
- You'll be responsible for coordinating the media channel plans, pulling weekly insights from digital platforms and monitoring campaign delivery, and performance and optimisations
- You'll be proficient in Microsoft systems including Excel, PPT and Word – being able to generate reports, presentations and written documents without excessive guidance
- You'll be a great communicator, able to set and manage expectations with your team with transparency and clarity
- You'll be able to manage your timeline independently, to set and deliver to deadlines are kept up to date with all activity on the account
- You’ll be central to ensuring that our account management processes run smoothly across finance, campaign set-up, campaign reporting and optimisation and reconciliation. You’ll be the owner of the plans and schematics and ensure they are accurate and up-to-date at all times.
- You’ll contribute to the overall team and agency, supporting team members where you can and getting involved in cross-company initiatives and training opportunities

The Package

the7stars benefits package includes:
• Competitive salary
• Uncounted holiday
• Discretionary Performance related Summer profit share & Christmas bonus
• Flexible & hybrid working
• Personalised training plan & access to coaching
• Wellbeing days
• Flexible pension plan through Royal London (8% employer contribution under £35k)
• Optional private medical insurance (Vitality) & cash back plan (Medicash)
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Work from anywhere up to 2 weeks each year
• Paid for gym membership with a choice of 5 gyms
• Enhanced family friendly policies
• Personal finance advice & support
• Life Assurance & Critical Illness cover
• Income protection
• Profit share scheme (after 3 years’ service)
• Electric Vehicle scheme
• Nursery Partnership
• Tech & Cycle to Work scheme
• Season ticket loans & expensed Railcard
• Company bar
• New Business Bonus eligible in your first year as a the7stars employee