Activation Manager - Audio & Display

The7stars; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical Insurance

Gym Membership

Life Assurance

Pension

Cycle to work

Techscheme

Wellbeing support

Job summary

the7stars in Covent Garden is seeking a future-facing Activation Manager - Audio & Display to lead holistic planning and high-impact media campaigns. You will shape strategy, collaborate with planners and buyers, and drive rigorous, creative execution.

This role focuses on Publishing, Audio and Digital, with a hands-on, award-winning mindset. London-based, Monday-Thursday in-office with hybrid Fridays; strong client leadership and a passion for media innovation are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience in planning and/or buying media, especially Audio and Display.
• Passion for delivering innovative and award-winning work through planning and buying.
• Motivation to drive value for clients across Audio and Display.
• Strong knowledge of technology platforms and their integration.
• Excellent verbal and written communication with clients.
• Ability to anticipate issues and propose measurable solutions.
• Strong numerical and analytical skills.
• Solid understanding of all media channels.
• Ability to build and maintain supplier relationships.

Responsibilities

• Deliver best-in-class media plans across Publishing, Audio and Digital.
• Understand trends and technology developments and their impact on output.
• Drive innovation and seek awards for clients through creative planning.
• Collaborate with client teams to align plans with objectives and KPIs.
• Assist with audit guarantees across PRF Clients.
• Develop media owner relationships and manage weekly sessions.
• Attend client status calls to ensure campaign delivery excellence.
• Execute PCA’s across the agency.
• Support trading team with supplier and value forecasting.
• Help develop junior planners/buyers and define roles/responsibilities.

Skills

Planning & Buying

Innovation

Client value

Tech platforms

Communication

Proactive problem solving

Numerical analysis

Media channels

Supplier relationships

Job description

About the7stars

the7stars is unlike any other agency. The distinction started the day we launched in 2005 when we named ourselves after a pub, but more importantly when we made a promise that we were going to do things differently.

And this commitment has stuck with us. It guides how we work, how we think and how we treat one another and can be expressed in a single word.

Freedom.

Our Freedom philosophy lives across our entire business from people, product and planning. It means we plan & buy media how we want, develop careers how we want, take holiday when we need it, invent tools when we need them, give people a platform to speak up, question and express themselves freely - but more importantly it has allowed us to create an amazing place to work.

We have a unique working environment and open structure which encourages personal development through client contact, team work, training, exposure to all media and internal teams – and a “sky’s the limit” approach to your growth within the agency.

the7stars is 300 passionate media people that are able to focus purely on creating great work for our clients. UK focused, we also operate within an agile global network of like-minded friends, extending our client portfolio into Europe and the US.

If thinking freely and with integrity is your bag, then the7stars is an agency you should meet.

Role Outline

To be a future facing Activation team that truly plans in a holistic way means that we need to supercharge the agency. The Activation Manager - Audio & Display role is a fantastic opportunity for the right candidate and we are looking for driven motivated individuals to be part of this exciting team.

the7stars is known as an agency that plans and buys media unlike no other, with precision in how we target audiences paying attention to the smallest of detail. We have a team of Activation planners AND buyers, we know the importance of delivering a plan that you have meticulously created.

As our billings are nearing £500m we need to ensure that we place the same level of rigour across all plans with creativity at the heart of what we do. Therefore we want to supercharge team Activation, we want to create a team that is best in class, that delivers the best implementational campaigns that deliver for our clients, and we want to be known in the UK as the best Activation team.

Responsibilities

• Deliver the best in class and market leading media plans across Publishing, Audio and Digital.
• Understanding trends, technological developments, and how these translate into implications for the agency’s output and in turn clients.
• Drive innovation! We want to win awards for our clients so be creative.
• Work closely with Client teams to ensure all plans are adhering to business objectives, the comms platform and key KPI’s.
• Assist with the management and delivery of audit guarantees across PRF Clients.
• Drive the development of media owner relationships to ensure we are seeking out opportunities for our clients that are new to market and managing weekly media owner sessions.
• Attending Client status’ and/or reporting calls to ensure excellence in campaign delivery.
• Execute and deliver best in class PCA’s across the agency.
• Support the wider team and the trading team via supplier & value forecasting
• Help develop and upskill junior planners/buyers setting out roles and responsibilities ensuring a level of accountability.

Skills and Experience Required

• Prior experience working within planning and/or buying, ideally within Audio and/or Display channels
• Have a passion for delivering innovation and award winning work through implementational planning and buying
• Highly motivated to drive value for clients across Audio and Display
• Strong knowledge and hands‑on experience of technology platforms and integration
• Great communicator, both verbally and written, confident in front of clients with the ability of understanding their wider business & challenges
• Ability to anticipate issues and be pro‑active in producing solutions with measurable
• Excellent numerical and analytical skills
• Solid understanding of all media channels
• Great supplier relationships

About You

We are looking for people who:

• Get excited by the solution, have ideas and are passionate about the ability of communications to make a real difference to businesses
• Believe in their ideas and have the business acumen to stand by them and back them up
• See media as just a part of the overall solution
• Are committed to delivering excellent service to clients
• Are committed to negotiating the very best deals for our clients
• Look forward to growing with an agency and taking on board the responsibility that comes with that growth
• Are entrepreneurial at heart, and are looking to do the best work of their careers
• Are tired of the cumbersome and rigidly structured nature of the big media agencies

Salary & Benefits

• Competitive salary dependent on expected impact in role
• Uncounted holiday
• Discretionary business performance related summer profit share & Christmas bonus
• Free breakfast & company bar
• New Business Bonus eligible in your first year as a 7stars employee
• Private Medical Insurance
• Gym Membership (choice of 4 local options)
• Personal finance advice from Financial Advisor
• Season ticket Loan
• Cycle to work Scheme
• Techscheme
• Life Assurance
• Critical Illness cover
• Income protection
• Extensive Maternity, Paternity, fostering and adoption leave package, including a phased return to work, enhanced pay, and a Gousto box for when the baby first arrives home
• Royal London pension (Including a Green Pension option)
• Employee assistance programme & wellbeing support

Our working pattern is Monday-Thursday in our Covent Garden offices, hybrid working on Friday.

the7stars is committed to creating a diverse environment, where employees feel empowered to share different ideas, perspectives and experiences in a collaborative and creative work environment. Equality and inclusion are at the heart of our culture. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race (which includes colour, nationality and ethnic or national origins), religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.