Associate Planning Director- Social and Creator

Job Description

Position: Associate Planning Director- Social and Creator
Location: London
Career Level: Associate Manager

Accenture Song accelerates growth and value for our clients through sustained customer relevance. Our capabilities span ideation to execution: growth, product and experience design; technology and experience platforms; creative, media and marketing strategy; and campaign, content and channel orchestration. With strong client relationships and deep industry expertise, we help our clients operate at the speed of life through the unlimited potential of imagination, technology and intelligence. Visit us at: www.accenture.com/song

As a team...

TMW is a leading integrated creative and communications agency, based across London and Bristol. Proudly wired differently, we believe that the best ideas work everywhere. We combine standout creativity with end-to-end connectivity to create ideas that move people in every channel.

As an Associate Planning Director...

We’re looking for an Associate Strategy Director for Social & Creator to support the increase in earned-first briefs across our department and the agency. You will help deliver standout thinking and earned-first creative work that connects with audiences across social, Creator, PR, and integrated channels.

We’re looking for someone with a passion for social culture, creativity, and strategic excellence –who’s able to inspire teams, spot opportunities and drive cultural cut-through across the agency.

Whilst this role will span a range of clients, the focus clients will be within the Government roster, specifically leading the Creator Strategy for stand-alone and Integrated work streams.

Responsibilities...

• Lead social and creator strategic response to briefs across key earned-first and integrated accounts, ensuring work is culturally relevant, insight-driven, and creatively inspiring.

• Champion the integration of social-first thinking across the agency and our partners – collaborating with planners, creatives, and client teams to elevate our strategic product.

• Be client facing and able to confidently identify, present and justify strategic recommendations and work with clients to establish benchmarks.

• Prepare creative briefs, develop Creator briefings and lead the team to activate against your recommendations and approach.

• Support in new business pitches where needed.

• Inspire the team, planners, strategists across the agency and our clients, with Social & Creator expertise and thought leadership.

• Be on the pulse with Creator and Social trends and talent.

• Collaborate with the Human Understanding Lab to ensure our work is grounded in behavioural science and human insight, identifying opportunities

• Drive commercial success for TMW by working with senior team to unlock opportunities across existing and net new clients.

We Are Looking For Experience In The Following Skills...

• Deep expertise in Social & Creator strategy and integrated communications.

• Strong understanding of social platforms, content formats, Creator landscape and cultural trends.

• Ability to translate insight into compelling strategic narratives and creative briefs.

• Excellent presentation and facilitation skills – confident with senior clients and internal stakeholders.

• Experience in behaviour change, purpose-led campaigns, or earned media is a plus.

• Commercially astute, with a track record of driving client growth and agency impact.

• Team player and lead – able to inspire and guide cross-functional teams and agency partners.

• Proactive mindset identifying opportunities to support clients and the agency.

Experience

• Experience in strategy roles within integrated, social, or creative agencies.

• Proven track record of leading Social & Creator strategic work that drives creative excellence and client success.

• Experience working with culturally relevant brands and varied stakeholder models.

Personality

• Insightful, culturally tuned-in, and passionate about social creativity.

• Confident in the spotlight – able to lead senior conversations and influence outcomes.

• Emotionally intelligent and adaptable – able to build trust across diverse teams and clients.

• Collaborative and ego-free – focused on impact, outcomes, and making a difference.

• High energy, curious, and driven by possibilities.

What we'll give you...

A thriving career with the chance to learn from passionate, talented colleagues and mentors. Exciting and varied client work with as much opportunity as you can handle. And a hugely sociable team to get to know.

Our Total Rewards consist of a competitive basic salary, annual performance bonus, opportunities to acquire equity and a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits. These include perks such as:
• Up to 30 days of leave to spend each year plus 3 extra volunteering days per year for charitable work of choice.
• Family-friendly and flexible working policies.
• A range of generous Parental Leave offerings.
• Attractive pension plan with financial wellbeing support and resources.
• Private healthcare insurance plan and Mental Wellbeing support.
• Employee Assistance Programme, Career Development and Counselling.

Please note that with all of our roles, you should expect some in-person time for collaboration, learning and building relationships with clients, peers, leaders and communities.

As an employer, we will be as flexible as possible to support your specific work/life needs.

Application Deadline: Ongoing
Accenture reserves the right to close the role, at any time.

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About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com

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