Activation Manager - Audio & Display

the7stars; London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

The7stars seeks motivated individuals for a new Activation team. This role focuses on delivering innovative media strategies across various platforms. Candidates must have experience in planning and a passion for creativity, joining a dynamic agency committed to freedom and personal growth.

Benefits

Flexible & hybrid working

Work from anywhere for up to 2 weeks a year

Free breakfast & company bar

Personal finance advice

Private Medical Insurance

Cycle to work Scheme & Tech scheme

Enhanced family-friendly policies

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Prior experience in planning and/or buying.
• Passionate about delivering innovation and award-winning work.
• Highly motivated to drive value for clients across Audio and Display.

Responsibilities

• Deliver market-leading media plans across Publishing, Audio, and Digital.
• Drive innovation and create award-winning campaigns for clients.
• Assist with management and delivery of audit guarantees.

Skills

Innovation

Client Management

Media Planning

Negotiation

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 doing 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 holidays 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, teamwork, training, exposure to all media and internal teams - and a "sky's the limit" approach to your growth within the agency.

In 2025, we achieved our 13th year in a row as a Sunday Times Top 100 company to work for and in 2023, we were awarded Campaign's number one media agency to work for accolade for the second year running.

The7stars is c300 passionate media people that are able to focus purely on creating great work for our clients. Clients include Warner Music, Entain, Suzuki, Gousto, Freemans, and The People's Postcode Lottery. UK-focused, we also operate within an agile 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.

Background

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 details. We have a team of Activation planners and buyers, and 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 rigor across all plans that leave Bush House with creativity at the heart of what we do. Therefore, we want to supercharge the team, creating a best-in-class Activation team that delivers the best implementational campaigns for our clients and is recognized as the UK's best Activation team.

The Role

To be a future-facing Activation team that truly plans holistically, we need to supercharge the agency. This is a fantastic opportunity for the right candidate, and we are looking for driven, motivated individuals to be part of this exciting new team.

What you’ll be doing;

1. Deliver market-leading media plans across Publishing, Audio, and Digital
2. Understand trends, technological developments, and their implications for the agency’s output and clients
3. Drive innovation! We want to win awards for our clients, so be creative
4. Work closely with client teams to ensure plans align with business objectives, the communication platform, and key KPIs
5. Assist with the management and delivery of audit guarantees across PRF Clients
6. Develop media owner relationships to seek out new market opportunities and manage weekly media owner sessions
7. Attend client status and reporting calls to ensure campaign delivery excellence
8. Execute and deliver best-in-class PCA’s across the agency
9. Support the wider team and trading team via supplier & value forecasting
10. Help develop and upskill junior planners/buyers, setting roles and responsibilities with accountability

Essential

• Prior experience in planning and/or buying
• 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

Desirable

• Experience managing a team
• Great supplier relationships

Apply if you want to…

• Join the largest independent, free-thinking, fast-moving media agency in the UK
• Grow your career rapidly
• Be surrounded by talented thinkers who love their work
• Design a flexible approach to your working life
• Challenge yourself to learn and grow daily
• Join a business that reinvests 5% of profits into the community
• Be part of a culture encouraging creativity, entrepreneurialism, and fun

Please don’t apply if…

• Thinking big isn’t your thing
• Shaping your company and environment doesn’t excite you
• Challenging yourself isn’t your goal

• Uncounted holiday
• Flexible & hybrid working
• Work from anywhere for up to 2 weeks a year
• Free breakfast & company bar
• New Business Bonus in your first year
• Personal finance advice
• Discretionary summer profit share bonus and Christmas bonus
• Private Medical Insurance
• Choice of 5 gyms
• Season ticket Loan
• Cycle to work Scheme & Tech scheme
• Life Assurance, critical Illness cover & income protection
• Enhanced family-friendly policies, including Shared Parental & Adoption Leave
• Royal London pension (8% employer contributions up to £35k, 5% thereafter)
• Employee assistance programme & MHFA trained colleagues

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 (including colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origins), religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.