Associate Account Director (Part Time)

Publicis Groupe UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Life Assurance

Private Medical cover

Reflection Days

Shared Parental Leave

Job summary

Starcom is recruiting a Global Strategy Account Manager to shape media strategy across our global Snacking business. You’ll lead global workstreams, align with regional teams to ensure consistency, and turn strategy into action across markets.

You’ll collaborate with agencies and internal teams worldwide, driving knowledge sharing, innovation, and best practice in a coordinated, client‑facing role at scale.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in media with expertise in account management, media planning or a combination of both.
• Experience working across global or regional teams with an understanding of how broad strategies can be translated effectively for different markets.
• Strong understanding of the media landscape including media strategy and planning paid and owned media innovation and evolving best practice.
• Excellent account management and orchestration skills with the ability to connect multiple teams capabilities markets and agency partners.

Responsibilities

• Lead key global media workstreams spanning paid and owned strategy, media best practice, innovation, Growth Audiences/CID, learning agendas and investment strategy.
• Help develop and roll out global media strategies partnering with regional teams to create consistency while recognising the needs of individual markets.
• Co‑lead the deployment of the Global Snacking PESO strategy helping embed clear planning principles, ways of working and an effective operating model.
• Partner with the Global Snacking Media Lead to develop media frameworks and best practices that teams can confidently apply across markets.
• Bring teams together across regions, capabilities and agency partners, aligning priorities, incorporating stakeholder feedback and keeping important work moving forward.
• Coordinate global and regional business reviews including the global media scorecard and cross‑capability half‑year reviews, creating clear visibility of priorities and progress.
• Strengthen how knowledge is shared globally supporting accessible playbooks, frameworks, training and case studies while leading the monthly Global and Regional Cross‑Capability Connect.

Skills

Media planning

Account management

Global collaboration

Job description

Company Description

With a history that dates back over 80 years, Starcom is a global communications planning and media leader. We are an agency still grounded in our founding principle that people are at the centre of all we do. Each day, we apply this belief to harness the transformative power of data and technology to inspire and move people and business forward. With more than 7,000 employees in over 100 offices around the world, we are the flagship Publicis Media agency that uses our ‘Power of One’ business model, with teams that span multiple disciplines across clients such as Aldi, P&G, Primark, Samsung, Stellantis, and Visa.

We place a huge focus on our People, and have driven flagship D&I and L&D programmes within Publicis Media; our goal is to help every individual reach their fullest potential, and we encourage everyone to make “Brave Plays” in how they approach their work and their own career development. As a result, we have an exceptionally energised and committed talent base, all of us proud of our welcoming and supportive culture, as evidenced by our recognition as one of Campaign’s Best Places to Work for five years in a row, Media Week's Agency of the Year 2025 and one of the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2025.

Overview

We are hiring a Global Strategy Account Manager to help shape how media strategy comes to life across our global Snacking business.

Working across North America, EMEA, ECE, LATAM and Asia, you’ll connect global ambition with regional and local execution, bringing together teams, capabilities and agency partners around a shared approach. You’ll combine strong media planning and account management expertise with the ability to lead important workstreams, influence stakeholders and turn strategy into action. It’s an opportunity to help advance media best practice, innovation and new ways of working across an integrated global agency network.

What will you be doing?

• Lead key global media workstreams spanning paid and owned strategy, media best practice, innovation, Growth Audiences/CID, learning agendas and investment strategy.
• Help develop and roll out global media strategies partnering with regional teams to create consistency while recognising the needs of individual markets.
• Co‑lead the deployment of the Global Snacking PESO strategy helping embed clear planning principles, ways of working and an effective operating model.
• Partner with the Global Snacking Media Lead to develop media frameworks and best practices that teams can confidently apply across markets.
• Bring teams together across regions, capabilities and agency partners, aligning priorities, incorporating stakeholder feedback and keeping important work moving forward.
• Coordinate global and regional business reviews including the global media scorecard and cross‑capability half‑year reviews, creating clear visibility of priorities and progress.
• Strengthen how knowledge is shared globally supporting accessible playbooks, frameworks, training and case studies while leading the monthly Global and Regional Cross‑Capability Connect.

Qualifications

What are we looking for?

• Strong experience in media with expertise in account management, media planning or a combination of both.
• Experience working across global or regional teams with an understanding of how broad strategies can be translated effectively for different markets.
• A strong understanding of the media landscape including media strategy and planning paid and owned media innovation and evolving best practice.
• Excellent account management and orchestration skills with the ability to connect multiple teams capabilities markets and agency partners.
• An organised and thoughtful approach enabling you to manage interconnected priorities while keeping stakeholders clear on progress and next steps.
• The ability to take ownership and work autonomously leading media‑specific workstreams while collaborating closely with colleagues across the wider business.
• Strong relationship‑building and influencing skills with the ability to communicate clearly and work effectively with different disciplines regions and levels of seniority.

Additional Information

Starcomoffers 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 thePublicis Career Pagewhich 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 Starcom, 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.

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