Account Director

About This Role

Leading media planning and client partnerships for Vauxhall, Alfa Romeo, and Spoticar is the core of this Account Director role. You will join The Collective, Publicis' bespoke agency for Stellantis, where you will influence ambitious automotive brands, develop trusted relationships, and help a collaborative team achieve its best work. The role combines strategic thinking with strong operational and commercial judgment to transform client ambitions into effective, insight-led plans.

Responsibilities

• Lead the day-to-day client relationship, providing clear direction and building trusted partnerships with senior stakeholders
• Own the end-to-end media planning process, connecting audience insight, strategy, and channel thinking to clients' business goals
• Turn complex media recommendations into clear, persuasive stories and lead structured, productive client meetings
• Bring together specialists across strategy, digital, CRM, data and technology, performance, and investment to deliver integrated work
• Maintain high standards across planning outputs, campaign governance, financial accuracy, forecasting, and contractual requirements
• Identify opportunities to strengthen client growth, expand relevant services, and improve ways of working across the account
• Support colleagues' development through thoughtful feedback, clear goals, effective onboarding, and access to relevant training

Requirements

• Experience leading media planning and client relationships, with the ability to take a broad view of a client's business and priorities
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with a talent for making strategic and technical thinking accessible
• A collaborative leadership style that provides clarity, encourages contribution, and helps people develop
• Sound commercial judgment, including experience of budgets, fees, forecasting, billing, or account governance
• An insight-led approach, using audience, category, and performance data to form useful hypotheses and guide decisions
• Broad knowledge of media channels, full-funnel planning principles, and performance measurement, with curiosity to keep learning
• An organized, solutions-focused mindset and the confidence to challenge constructively, improve processes, and take ownership

Benefits

• Pension
• Life Assurance
• Private Medical cover
• Reflection Days
• Shared Parental Leave

Important Details

• Schedule: Primarily from the office or clients' office four days per week

About the Company

Starcom is a global communications planning and media leader with a history spanning over 80 years. It is the flagship Publicis Media agency, employing more than 7,000 people in over 100 offices worldwide, serving clients such as Aldi, P&G, Primark, Samsung, Stellantis, and Visa. Starcom has been recognized 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.