At Spark Foundry, our vision is to Fuel Famously Effective Ideas. Famous and Effective. Not one or the other — both. That sounds nice, but to get to famously effective ideas you need some key ingredients.

You need diverse thinkers and diverse thinking. We call this Allsorts. This helps us tackle obstacles through different disciplines and perspectives. You need to thrive on the belief that great ideas are only great if they work. It’s not enough to be new or cool or interesting.

Our solutions need to drive a business result. Everything else is vanity. You need to embrace both the art and the evidence. Right and left. Imagination and activation. Insight and technology. Big ideas forensically measured.

All that while being a good human. Sound like you? Sound like where you’d like to be? We’d love to meet you.

Account Manager

Company Description:

At Spark Foundry, our vision is to Fuel Famously Effective Ideas. Famous and Effective. Not one or the other — both. That sounds nice, but to get to famously effective ideas you need some key ingredients.

You need diverse thinkers and diverse thinking. We call this Allsorts. This helps us tackle obstacles through different disciplines and perspectives. You need to thrive on the belief that great ideas are only great if they work. It’s not enough to be new or cool or interesting.

Our solutions need to drive a business result. Everything else is vanity. You need to embrace both the art and the evidence. Right and left. Imagination and activation. Insight and technology. Big ideas forensically measured.

All that while being a good human. Sound like you? Sound like where you’d like to be? We’d love to meet you.

About Publicis Le ONE:

Our team consists of a bespoke ‘agency’ created to service the Haleon account and is considered a ‘Power of One’ model. ‘Power of One’ essentially consists of multiple agencies coming together – Spark, Leo Burnett & CaST – to provide an optimal service and connectivity of thinking to Haleon. Essentially, we get to have the best of both worlds – the feeling of being in a bespoke micro-agency, but with the overall support of the wider agencies. Although our team consists of members across the group, we ultimately all operate as ‘one team,’ which is also how Haleon sees Pub Le ONE.

About Haleon (formally GSK):

Haleon is a world-leading consumer health company with a purpose to deliver better everyday health with humanity. It has leading brands like Panadol, Voltaren, Centrum and Sensodyne. You will be responsible for making a real difference in our clients’ business—and our own.

What you’ll do:

This role offers a unique opportunity to be at the center of all the action for our team, as the Account Manager position acts as the key client-liaison across all the Haleon brands – Essentially operating as the main point-of-contact for the Haleon brand managers/media team, whilst also acting as the center point in our internal team.

This role ensures that all client deliverables meet our business objectives by delivering media planning strategies across digital and offline channels, as well as building exceptionally strong relationships with Haleon and senior stakeholders.

We have 4 pillars within our internal structure – Strategy, Accounts, Investment & Performance. The Accounts team (where the AM role falls) is required to work closely with all other pillars (plus clients) to ensure we are collaborating and delivering connected results and recommendations for Haleon. Strong communication skills and the ability to ‘move and shake’ / project manage across a team will be an important part of this role.

There are two Account Managers working across Haleon (splitting the brands) and both are responsible for supporting, coaching and training the shared Account Executive. The Account Manager will report into the Business Director/Account Director.

Key Outputs:

Campaign Planning

• Able to advise and support planning teams on best channel budget splits and approach to holistic media planning (digital and offline)
• Lead implementation planning of the team with the support of the other divisions (Strategy, Investment and Performance)
• Overall project management is a huge part of this role – The Account Manager is essentially the lead for all day-to-day client operations (with support of the Account Director/Business Director)
• Delivering thought leadership on all brands, ensuring all our recommendations are backed up with evidence and delivered in a way that is easily digestible to Haleon
• Drive innovation & creativity across the team – work with the wider team on how we can push the envelope to challenge our client’s thinking

Client Servicing

• With the support of the Account Director / Business Director and also the Executive, the Account Manager is truly the point-person for all day-to-day operations - it is client facing with exposure to a variety of channel recommendations and planning workstreams
• The Account Manager will be the ‘keeper’ of the media plans and oversee implementation of campaigns
• Strong communication skills are required to ensure we can effectively sell in strategies and explain our recommendations
• The Account Manager role is responsible for driving internal workstreams received from Haleon into the wider team – and then ensuring these workstreams are delivered on

Team & Communication

Developing strong working relationships with:

Clients

• Build strong relationships with Haleon brand managers and media team - be the point person for all day-to-day operations

Pub LeOne Leadership team

• Opportunity to work with Business Director & Head of Strategy to finalise client development plans and ensure all client objectives are being met
• Work with Group Digital Director to ensure digital operations are executed properly and implementation is seamless

Accounts Team

• Business/Account Directors to support in the growth and development of this role
• Account Manager will share management of the Account Executive

Skills & Experience:

• Minimum 3 years media planning and/or media buying experience with marketing agency background across digital channels (search, social, programmatic)
• Preferably a university degree or higher education qualifications
• Ideally this person already has a good understanding and working knowledge of Australian media landscape across a variety of channels
• Highly proficient in the following Office platforms: Word, PowerPoint and Excel
• Strong leader and able to connect a team – both within the Accounts division, but also someone who is able to collaborate with a wider team when it comes to ensuring all client deliverables are met
• Natural communication skills and experience working with clients, as well as the ability to work with a variety of people and personality styles
• We are looking for someone who has attention to detail, is process-oriented, highly organised and can ensure deadlines/deliverables are met as seamlessly as possible

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Publicis Groupe benefits: Be a part of the Publicis Groupe family, recent winner of the Employer of Choice Awards and one of the world's most progressive and dynamic modern communications businesses. You can learn more about us at www.publicisgroupeanz.com.

Enjoy all the perks that come with our network offering:

• A comprehensive Wholeself program supporting physical, mindful, and financial wellbeing.
• A creative, lively, and rewarding office environment where people love working with each other, supported by our Publicis Liberté flexibility approach — "working your way with us."
• Access to our Global AI Platform Marcel, connecting Publicis Groupe employees with opportunities for career mobility and collaboration across our global network.
• Extensive Learning & Development opportunities including more than 15,000 learning programs via our online learning platform, Marcel Classes.
• A culture of open feedback and support to reach your goals through our Career Conversations program.
• A committed Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion strategy driven through our Viva Women, Égalité, enABLE, EmbRACE, and Écologique committees.
• Leave benefits including Birthday Leave, Flexible Public Holidays, and an additional 5 days of leave after 2 years of service.
• Work Your World program enabling employees the flexibility to work from anywhere in the world for up to 6 weeks per year.
• Parental leave policy with up to 18 weeks based on tenure, paid primary carer leave, secondary carer swap, and Cub Care leave.
• Access to counsellors, psychologists, and professionals through Sonder, an all-in-one digital wellbeing technology platform designed to support psychological, medical & safety needs.
• A workplace that stands together to provide a more open, supportive, and recovery-forward culture for all employees with life-threatening illnesses. Read more about our Working With Cancer Pledge: https://workingwithcancerpledge.com/
• Proud partners of Diversity Council Australia, Pride in Diversity, Family Friendly Workplaces, Supply Nation, and the Australian Disability Network.

If you don't tick every box in this ad, please don't rule yourself out. Research suggests that women and other people in underrepresented groups tend to only apply if they meet every requirement. We focus on hiring people who share our values of inclusion, collaboration, adaptability, fearlessness, and integrity rather than ticking boxes — so if this role resonates with you, please apply.

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Uniqueness is powerful; without it, we wouldn't be where we are today. So be you — we like it that way.

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