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.

Working closely with the Account Manager on the team, you will be tacking deliverables ranging from budget management, campaign reporting, competitor monitoring and building media plans and recommendations for clients. You will quickly learn and gain the confidence to lead client facing deliverables/presentations, reinforcing you as an integral part of the client team.

You will work closely with our channel activation specialist to collate and share media plans with the Account Managers, together crafting the media response. From helping decide what YouTube channels to run on, defending TikTok to your clients and building unique brand integrations with publishers, the day to day will always be interesting. You will have the opportunity to meet with a vast amount of media owners partners to build your knowledge of the UK media landscape and learn about their capabilities and how we can leverage them for Samsung. You’ll also get to be a part of an emerging B2B Expertise team, with the opportunity to help shape the team and benefit from all the learning and opportunities that come from being a part of the team.  

This role will give you the autonomy to tackle tasks on your own that you are confident and comfortable in, as well provide the mentorship you need to learn and grown.

So not to just take our word for it, we asked one of the team to share their experience.  She joined us as an intern and has been with Starcom for over 4 years now.

“I started in the OPTS team as an intern, before becoming a permanent team member and progressing to Account Manager. Working as part of a Power of One team has allowed me to gain experience across the full media landscape, working on campaigns from start to finish and shadowing specialists across Data, Activation and Strategy, helping me to progress in my career at Starcom. We’re a diverse and close-knit team and have forged genuine friendships inside and outside of work, which makes every day that bit more fun. This role would best suit someone wanting to get stuck into a dynamic environment and challenge themselves, striving for best in class work”, Account Manager, Starcom

The Samsung OPTS team:

Over the last 18 months on OPTS, we significantly expanded our scope, we swept the awards board, smashed all commercial targets and, in the toughest of tough years we delivered both a client and team NPS (it measures: client service, team, and output for the client) score of 8+. With our clients, we've built a new kind of partnership. And we’ve done it on a massive scale.

Our collective work with some of the largest media owners in the UK, make our media collaborations award worthy!  

In recognition of all the above, we have been excited to been shortlisted to Campaign Media’s Agency team of the year twice!  We pride ourselves on being “Relentless Pioneers”, going above and beyond with Samsung to help them achieve their mantra of “Do What You Can’t”

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.