Starcom is the Human Experience Company; we believe that our clients’ competitive advantage lies in understanding people better, and acting on that understanding faster than the competition.

The future lies in bringing together media, creativity and data to create powerful experiences that will drive faster growth. We are the flagship Publicis Media agency to do this through our Power of One client teams that span clients such as Stellantis, P&G, Samsung, P&O and Visa.

We work differently to most agencies and base many of our models on consultancy ways of working to build a more agile workforce in this hybrid world. We complement our account teams with Squads – small teams that work for a short period to solve a specific brief. We hold cross discipline Sprints to crack client briefs at speed. These processes are designed to fuel high performance and fast results through collaboration.

Even in this most challenging period, Starcom has had an exceptional 12 months. We have welcomed brilliant clients such as Stellantis, Ferrero, Axa, KP Snacks and E.ON into the fold. Our client satisfaction scores are among the highest in the market, significantly above agency norms. We place a huge focus on our team and have driven flagship DEI 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 in 2021.

Starcom operates in over 100 markets across the world. We have very close ties to our global HQ in Chicago who encourage learning and sharing best practice with our colleagues around the world. We are part of Publicis Groupe.

The Planning team at Starcom are looking for an Account Manager to work on the Luxury Maserati UK account.

Maserati is an integral brand and part of Stellantis, one of our largest global accounts across Publicis Groupe. Maserati is very digitally focussed, with over 90% of their media budget in digital channels. The Maserati brand recently went through a bold brand relaunch in 2020, re-establishing itself as a luxury sports car brand, its heritage deeply rooted in Italian automotive history. As part of the relaunch, the brand has seen the release of many new models, all of which featuring electrified versions – and later this year, it will launch its first ever fully electric models!

The UK Account Manager will be the main point of contact for the Maserati UK client, managing all media strategy and planning tasks, whilst also working closely with each channel activation specialist ensuring campaigns go live accurately and on time.

You will also be working closely with the Starcom Global and EMEA teams (who work out of the London office), to ensure local market media directives, process changes and reporting requests from Maserati Global and EMEA are actioned.

This role is unique in the fact you will have autonomy over your work and, to some degree, have ownership over the client relationship.
 

You will also be responsible for:

• Leading the development of UK media strategy and planning
• manager the client briefing process and translate briefing to activation teams
• Work closely with the activation teams to activate campaigns, accurately and on time
• Deliver all regular and ad hoc client (and internal) deliverables; planning, reporting, finance, insights, POV’s, innovation etc.
• Ensure luxury account management best practise is followed at all times
   

You will need:

• Experience in working at a Media agency, in either a Planning or 360 planning and activation role
• You must have strong knowledge of digital and paid media channels (social, search, display etc) with an understanding of traditional media
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to liase with internal team and external stakeholders to complete tasks to a high standard

What we can give you

We have a fabulous benefits package, some of which are outlined below. For more information, please contact us!

The classics:

• 25 days holiday increasing to 30 days after 5 years’ service plus bank holidays
• Pension up to Reward Level
• Life Assurance
• Group Income Protection
• Enhanced Parental leave packages

To make life a little easier:

• Summer Fridays
• PMWOW, our flexible working programme
• Season ticket loan
• Cycle scheme
• Café Marcel - our on site subsidised cafe

The added extras:

• Birthday day off
• Recruitment referral bonus scheme
• Technology, shopping and local business discounts including Westfield
• 2 days of volunteering leave per year
• Agency social events

Looking after you:

• Headline – our Mental Health Programme
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Eye care support
• Discounted gym membership
• Weekly wellbeing activities (ie. yoga, massage, mindfulness session

   

Starcom is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation or gender identity. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments for employees with disabilities and for candidates in our application process.  If you need assistance or adjustment due to a disability, please contact us.