Strategy Planning Director

Accenture PLC; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Song in Sydney is seeking an experienced Planning Director to lead and develop media planning as a distinct craft within our agency. You will connect strategy, planning and investment, ensuring recommendations translate into clear, ambitious media plans.

You will shape Accenture Song’s planning capability, develop tools and workflows, build strong publisher relationships, and attract exceptional planning talent while exploring AI and cutting-edge media opportunities to accelerate

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of media planning experience in a top-tier agency environment.
• At least 2-3 years at a senior planning manager or group head level.
• Experience leading or building a planning function, not just performing within one.
• Proven track record of award-recognised work across clients and categories.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop media planning as a distinct craft within the agency, translating strategy into clear, ambitious media plans.
• Collaborate with strategy to shape planning capability and develop distinctive tools/workflows.
• Build strong publisher relationships and attract top planning talent.
• Introduce AI and cutting-edge media opportunities to sharpen outputs and time to market.

Skills

Planning leadership

Marketing effectiveness

Ecosystem thinking

Scenario planning

Publisher relationships

Industry thought leadership

AI in media

Job description

Accenture Song | Media | Sydney

The Opportunity

We’re looking for an experienced Planning Director to lead and develop media planning as a distinct craft within our agency. You’ll play a central role in connecting strategy, planning and investment, ensuring strategic recommendations are translated into clear, ambitious and brilliantly executed media plans.

At Accenture Song, we believe in OES then P , maximising a client’s full suite of connections before investing in paid media. You’ll bring an ecosystem mindset, understanding the role and interconnection of every customer touchpoint and building plans that reflect that complexity with clarity.

Working in deep collaboration with strategy, you’ll help shape the agency’s planning capability, develop distinctive tools and workflows, build strong publisher relationships, attract exceptional talent and raise the profile of Accenture Song’s planning work across the industry.

This is an opportunity to help define what modern media planning should look like, combining the science of effectiveness and scenario planning with creativity, technology and AI.

What We’re Looking For

• Proven planning leadership, with a track record of delivering ambitious, award-recognised work to market.
• Deep expertise in marketing effectiveness theory, with the ability to advise clients on when to adhere to and when to deviate from it to maximise outcomes.
• Ecosystem thinking: a cohesive understanding of the role and interconnection of every client touchpoint, and the ability to build plans that reflect and optimise the whole.
• A command of the science of media planning, with the ability to build, run and quality‑assure scenario planning with rigour and confidence.
• Strong publisher relationships built on genuine creative and strategic collaboration, with the ambition to develop deep relationships with strategic and creative teams across media companies.
• An industry voice: a clear point of view, a desire to be recognised for the work, and a commitment to attracting and nurturing the next generation of planning talent.
• The ability to identify and implement how planning integrates into Accenture Song’s tools and systems, creating bespoke capabilities and workflows that accelerate outputs and time to market.
• An active embrace of AI and cutting-edge media opportunities , using both to sharpen and accelerate the work.

Experience

• 8-10 years of media planning experience within a top‑tier agency environment.
• At least 2-3 years operating at a senior planning manager or group head level.
• Demonstrated experience leading or building a planning function, not simply performing within one.
• A proven track record of award-recognised work across a range of clients and categories.

Why Here. Why Now.

The resources and reach of Accenture , with the energy and freedom of a practice still writing its own rules.

At Accenture Song , creativity meets intelligence, powered by technology and humanity in equal measure.

The work being done now will shape what this agency looks like for a long time, and we’re looking for leaders who want to change the industry for the better.

Before We Meet

Read the expectations above and come ready to talk about them.

What resonates? Where would you push us? What would you build?

Then, let’s talk.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent‑ and innovation‑led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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