Planning Account Director

The Role
You’ll join us as a senior member of the Planning team, leading strategy across several high-profile accounts, spanning FMCG (Health & Beauty) and a utility brand.

This role sits at the heart of our brand-new planning team, giving you a rare opportunity to help shape our ways of working, define best-in-class planning practices, and contribute to the culture from day one. It’s an incredible moment to join the7stars as we evolve and innovate, building a future-fit planning function designed to set new standards for the industry.

As well as leading the overall media approach, you will closely liaise with the specialists across the business to ensure we develop the right audience, measurement and activation strategies for our clients driving best in class collaboration.

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.
• Responsible for training and development of junior planning team members in areas of media planning, category learning, insight gathering & analysis of results to generate clear learnings & recommendations.

Requirements:
• Able to represent the agency planning framework & ethos and train up team members to do the same.
• Actively participate in and support the leadership of, agency new business pitches.
• You are the escalation point for internal and client finance challenges.
• You’ll have excellent inter-personal, presentation and communication skills to support the relationships you build across the team, with your clients and across the agency.
• You’ll be confident in both nurturing and challenging junior team members so that they grow and fulfil their potential.

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