Account Manager

Publicis Groupe; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Life Assurance

Private Medical cover

Reflection Days

Shared Parental Leave

Job summary

Spark Foundry in the UK is seeking a Media Account Manager & Planner with healthcare experience to lead UK healthcare professional media planning for a major consumer healthcare account. You’ll manage briefs, develop plans, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to deliver campaigns from concept to optimisation.

Responsibilities include nurturing client relationships, translating objectives into channels and investments, and ensuring timely delivery and reporting.

Qualifications

• Experience planning media for UK healthcare professionals.
• Experience in a medical or healthcare media setting is preferred.
• Strong client partnerships and clear communication skills.
• Ability to manage timelines, budgets and reports for campaigns.
• Demonstrated financial administration and accountability in projects.
• Collaborative, proactive and able to work with diverse teams.
• Interest in specialist healthcare media; regulated categories valued.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day client relationships and translate briefs into priorities.
• Develop UK healthcare professional media plans aligned with objectives.
• Lead campaigns from brief to planning, buying, activation and optimisation.
• Negotiate with healthcare publishers and identify value opportunities.
• Coordinate planning, activation, performance, data, and cross-teams.
• Provide insights and recommendations from campaign performance.
• Oversee timelines, budgets, POs, billing and governance.

Skills

Healthcare media planning UK

UK healthcare media landscape

Client partnership

Stakeholder communication

Campaign timelines & budgets

Financial administration

Collaborative & accountable

Job description

Company Description

Who We Are in the UK?

We help brands to identify, learn and respond to opportunities faster than the competition.

Every client has an area of their business they need to accelerate, from short-term goals to long-term transformation.

We’ve proven our approach during the most difficult year on record. Now we’re using it to provide a launchpad for their future.

Come be an accelerator with us.

How we accelerate

• Planning: an approach that works in practice rather than theory, arming planners with the ability to create cutting edge campaigns
• Intelligence: a suite of tools that give definitive answers to big questions, and uncovers actionable insights about real people
• Trading: a model built on flexibility and trusted relationships, underpinned with bold guarantees
• Relationships: a culture of asking challenging questions to better understand the brief – we are not a ‘yes’ agency
• People: a strong history of recruiting talent from diverse backgrounds and accelerating their careers

Our Commitment

We are diverse though our experience, people and the clients we look after - and we celebrate that diversity. Our people hold us accountable to our beliefs and via regular surveys and our grass roots D&I team, The Collective, and internal next generation board, Firestarters, we hold regular events and work continually towards generating ideas, initiatives and educating our people to ensure we are a diverse and inclusive agency.

As part of our dedication to create an inclusive and diverse workforce, Spark Foundry is committed to equal access to opportunity for people without regard to race, age, sex, disability, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, gender identity or religion.

Overview

We’re hiring a Media Account Manager & Planner with experience in healthcare/ with healthcare clients to join Spark Foundry and play a key role on an important consumer healthcare account. This hands‑on role combines specialist UK healthcare professional media planning with client partnership, campaign delivery and buying. You’ll own work from brief through to activation and optimisation, collaborating with specialists across the wider business. It’s a great opportunity to apply your healthcare media expertise while helping shape and strengthen a growing capability.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day client relationships, turning briefs and business objectives into clear priorities and actionable media recommendations.
• Develop strategically grounded UK healthcare professional media plans, translating audience and communication objectives into channel, investment and activation recommendations.
• Take campaigns from brief through planning, buying, activation and optimisation, maintaining clear oversight throughout delivery.
• Evaluate and negotiate with healthcare publishers and media owners to identify relevant opportunities and deliver appropriate value.
• Bring together planning, activation, performance, data and other specialist teams to deliver joined‑up work for the client.
• Turn campaign performance and reporting into concise insights and practical recommendations that support better decision‑making.
• Maintain oversight of timelines, budgets, purchase orders, billing and governance, while helping establish effective and scalable ways of working.

Qualifications

• Experience planning media for healthcare professional audiences in the UK, with a strong understanding of the UK healthcare professional media landscape.
• Media agency experience within planning, account management or an integrated role.
• The ability to take a client brief from initial exploration through strategic recommendation, media planning and delivery.
• Strong client‑partnership and communication skills, including the ability to present recommendations clearly to different stakeholders.
• Experience managing campaign timelines, budgets, reporting, optimisation and associated financial administration.
• A collaborative and accountable approach, with sound judgement about when to work independently and when to bring others in.
• Curiosity, attention to detail and an interest in specialist healthcare media; experience in consumer healthcare, pharmaceutical or another regulated category would be valuable.

Additional information

Spark Foundry offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees. Full details are shared when you join, but highlights include core benefits such as Pension, Life Assurance, and Private Medical cover, alongside enhanced policies like Reflection Days and Shared Parental Leave. You’ll also have access to a range of additional initiatives, including:

• Pension
• Life Assurance
• Private Medical cover
• Reflection Days
• Shared Parental Leave

Please check out the Publicis Career Page which showcases our Inclusive Benefits and our EAG’s (Employee Action Groups).

Publicis Groupe works primarily from the office or our clients’ office four days per week.

At Spark Foundry, we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion or belief, disability, age, citizenship, relationship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected characteristic.

We are committed to providing a fair, accessible, and inclusive recruitment process. If you have any access needs – for example, related to disability, neurodivergence, or a health condition – please let us know. We’ll work with you to ensure the process works for you. Sharing this information will never impact your application.

Guided by our values, we listen with empathy, uplift each other, take responsibility, and embrace change - building a culture where everyone feels seen, respected, and genuinely included.