Freelance Planning Account Manager

The Freelance Planning Account Manager role is to cover a 6-month period from Jan-June 2026 and will be supporting across a range of music and entertainment clients. You will be an ambitious Planner with strong foundational media channel knowledge. You'll be supporting the Planning & Client leadership team, taking on responsibilities across account management as well as building your planning and digital skills. Great organisation, excellent attention to detail, ambition and a passion for client servicing are critical.

Key requirements and day to day responsibilities:

• You'll be supporting the planning leads and senior planners across your patch, understanding the music album and single charts, and how paid media can leverage and influence artist chart positions
• You will understand the nuances of different artists we work with and how their fan bases behave and operate, how paid media can reach existing and potential fans and feel confident to share your opinions in client and internal meetings alike
• You'll demonstrate an excellent attention to detail within all your work
• Be able to manage multiple clients and campaigns and effectively prioritise campaigns
• You'll be eager to develop your media planning skillsets across above the line and digital channels
• You'll be adept at using all tools necessary to track competitor activity, with the ability to draw upon clear insights and implications for your clients from your analysis
• You'll contribute to media planning responses using industry tools and client insights and data to input into media planning
• You'll plan and buy outdoor activity, liaising with our agency partners Talon
• You will have good knowledge of social (esp. Meta, TikTok and YouTube) and be able to plan and buy media across these platforms
• You'll be proactive in building great working relationships with specialist channels teams and other teams across the business, to ensure best practice, consistency and quality across the plans
• You'll be responsible for coordinating the media channel plans, pulling weekly insights from digital platforms and monitoring campaign delivery, and performance and optimisations
• You'll be proficient in Microsoft systems including Excel, PPT and Word – being able to generate reports, presentations and written documents without excessive guidance
• You'll be a great communicator, able to set and manage expectations with your team with transparency and clarity
• You'll be able to manage your timeline independently, to set and deliver to deadlines are kept up to date with all activity on the account
• You'll be central to ensuring that our account management processes run smoothly across finance, campaign set-up, campaign reporting and optimisation and reconciliation. You'll be the owner of the plans and schematics and ensure they are accurate and up-to-date at all times.

Requirements

Talk to us if you want to:

• Freelance with the largest independent, free thinking, fast moving media agency in the UK
• Be surrounded by a diverse team of talented thinkers, who love the work they do
• Be challenged to learn and grow every day
• Work with a business that does more than just media – that gives 5% of its profits back into the community
• Be part of a culture that encourages creativity, entrepreneurialism and most importantly of all… fun

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.