Commercial Executive

The7stars; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

the7stars is seeking a bright, commercially-minded individual to join our Trading & Commercial team in London. You’ll learn how we structure client relationships, build fee models, and ensure the agency is paid correctly for the work we do.

This role offers exposure beyond an Executive level, collaborating with teams across the agency and senior stakeholders to understand commercial decisions behind media and client opportunities.

Qualifications

• Strong foundation with numbers, data and Excel.
• Meticulous attention to detail and accuracy.
• Organised and able to manage multiple tasks at once.
• Proactive, takes ownership and communicates clearly.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain the client contract database.
• Communicate key contract details to relevant teams.
• Draft short-form client contracts as needed.
• Create billings and income reports to support client negotiations.
• Support client renewals and respond to scope changes.
• Reconcile resource allocation across accounts quarterly.
• Work with Revenue Controller to ensure fees and commissions are accurate.
• Support fee modelling and commercial elements of pitches.

Skills

Numerical analysis

Data literacy

Excel

Detail orientation

Organised

Proactive ownership

Relationship building

Commercial awareness

Team collaboration

Tools

Excel

Job description

We're looking for a bright, curious and commercially-minded person to join our Trading & Commercial team.

This is a brilliant opportunity to get under the skin of how a media agency actually works commercially. You'll work across our entire client portfolio, learning how we structure client relationships, build fee models, manage contracts and make sure the agency is being paid correctly for the work we do.

You'll also get exposure well beyond what you might expect from an Executive-level role. You'll work with teams right across the agency and regularly interact with senior stakeholders, giving you a broad view of our clients, media channels and the commercial decisions behind the business.

It's a varied role, so you'll need to be comfortable switching between different tasks and priorities. One minute you might be working through the numbers behind a client fee proposal; the next, helping with a contract, pulling together information for a senior stakeholder or supporting the commercial side of a new business pitch.

What you'll be doing

You'll help us create and manage strong commercial relationships with our clients, including:

• Managing and maintaining our client contract database
• Communicating key contract details to relevant teams across the agency
• Drafting short-form client contracts on an ad hoc basis
• Creating billings and income reports to support client negotiations
• Supporting client renewals and helping us respond to changes in scope or requirements
• Reconciling resource allocation across our accounts each quarter
• Working closely with our Revenue Controller to ensure fees and commissions are accurate
• Working with the New Business team to create resource plans and fee proposals for pitches
• Supporting fee modelling and the commercial elements of new client opportunities
• Attending regular meetings with senior stakeholders across the agency

What we're looking for

You don't need to arrive knowing everything about agency commercials. We're looking for someone with a strong foundation who wants to learn.

You'll ideally have some early experience within a media agency or a related environment and, most importantly, you'll be someone who is:

• Comfortable working with numbers, data and Excel
• Meticulous when it comes to detail – getting things right matters in this team
• Organised and able to keep on top of several different things at once
• Proactive and happy taking ownership of a task through to completion
• Confident building relationships with different people and teams
• Comfortable asking questions and challenging things when they don't look right
• Collaborative, positive and keen to contribute to the wider team
• Genuinely interested in understanding the commercial side of a business

Some knowledge of media planning and buying, agency finance or client contracts would be useful, but isn't essential.

Above all, we're looking for someone enthusiastic, switched-on and keen to learn. The role can be fast-moving and occasionally a little chaotic, so being able to keep your head, change context quickly and still get the detail right will take you a long way.

About the7stars

the7stars is unlike any other agency. That distinction started when we launched in 2005 – named after a pub, but more importantly built around a promise to do things differently.

That commitment still guides how we work, how we think and how we treat one another, and can be summed up in one word: Freedom.

Our Freedom philosophy runs throughout the business. It means we plan and buy media how we want, develop careers how we want, invent tools when we need them and give people the platform to speak up, question things and express themselves freely.

Today, the7stars is home to around 300 passionate media people, focused on creating great work for our clients. We're UK-focused, while also working through an agile global network of like-minded partners across Europe and the US.

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

Our working pattern is Monday to Thursday in our Covent Garden office, with hybrid working on Friday.

the7stars is committed to creating a diverse environment where employees feel empowered to share different ideas, perspectives and experiences. Equality and inclusion are at the heart of our culture, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.