Senior AV Account Executive in London

Overall Purpose of the role: To support the planning, activation and delivery of AV-led media campaigns across linear TV, BVOD, CTV, OOH and Audio. You will build strong client relationships, confidently present AV performance and insights, and ensure campaigns are delivered on time, on budget and to a high standard, working closely with AV specialists, activation teams and senior account leads. This role is ideal for someone who already understands AV fundamentals and wants to deepen their expertise across planning, reporting, optimisation and client management.

Core Responsibilities:

• Client and Account Management: Build strong client relationships, present AV plans and analysis, and manage all meetings and follow-ups.
• AV Campaign Planning & Delivery: Support end-to-end AV campaign execution, ensuring workflows, budgets, and timelines stay on track.
• Reporting, Analysis, and Optimisation: Deliver accurate reports, provide actionable insights, and support optimisation and post-campaign reviews.
• Data, Insight and Market Understanding: Leverage tools and research for audience, category, and competitor insights; stay updated on AV trends.
• Creative and Production Coordination: Ensure timely, spec-compliant asset delivery; track rotations and share campaign confirmations.
• Financial and Operational Management: Manage billing, reconciliation, and finance trackers; support booking and billing processes.
• Teamwork and development: Collaborate across teams, engage in training, share insights, and contribute to agency culture.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• 1+ years’ experience at a media agency in an AV, media planning or account management role
• Hands-on experience supporting TV / BVOD / CTV / AV campaigns
• Experience preparing, QA-ing and presenting AV campaign reports
• Understanding of AV metrics including reach, frequency, impacts, CPTs, audience delivery and attribution
• Familiarity with AV planning and reporting tools (e.g. MediaOcean, TV reporting platforms)
• Experience running status and reporting meetings with clients and internal stakeholders
• Confident managing AV asset delivery and copy instructions
• Strong Excel / Google Sheets skills
• Analytical, numerate and commercially minded
• Highly organised, detail-oriented and comfortable managing multiple workstreams
• Clear, confident written and verbal communication skills
• Proactive, curious and solutions-focused
• A genuine interest in AV, media and communications

Ideal additional skills and attributes:

• Working knowledge of audience research tools (TGI, Touchpoints)
• AV planning tools (Telmar, Media Planner)
• Competitor analysis (Nielsen Ad Intel)
• AV measurement platforms (e.g. TVSquared, Adalyser, CFlight, Barb/BVOD reporting)
• Google Analytics
• Understanding of how AV integrates with digital channels within full-funnel plans

The Package:

Annual package of £30,000. Flexible, extensive benefits post 6-month probation can be found on our website.

The Agency:

Bicycle was founded by four people in 2021 because they believed that a better type of agency was not only possible but needed. We are 100% independent, with no external investment whatsoever and proudly offer a full-service media and creative solution with fully global capabilities. We’re built on the power of ‘And’: creative & media, brand & performance, art & science, data & creativity, man & machine. From the outset we believed that our industry had become beset with silos and legacy driven behaviour and have purposely evolved the agency to operate across brand and performance media, creative strategy and creative production - all of which are delivered under our proposition of ‘the power of And’. Profitable since day one, we are now 50 strong and one of the fastest-growing agencies in the world. Our clients include Papa John’s, Livescore, Carwow, Virgin, OFX, Sarson’s, Mischon de Reya, Warner Hotels, CVH Spirits, Tate & Lyle, Royal British Legion, Branston Pickle, Movember, Moju, Zooplus, Abellio and Estrid. We are continuing to grow and are proud to have been awarded B-Corp and London Living Wage status, and shortlisted for The Drum’s Best Places to Work. We have also been accredited with the People First Promise badge in recognition of our commitment to our people and their mental well-being. We were named one of Campaign’s 2025 Agencies To Watch and recently shortlisted for Campaign’s Start-up of the Year Award. We also received an excellent score of 8/9 in Campaign’s 2025 School Reports, which ranks agencies based on their growth, income, client wins, diversity credentials and quality of work. Development is core to our growth and is evidenced by us being accredited IPA CPD Gold status in 2023, 2024 and 2025. We are home to smart people who want to create incredible work on interesting brands.

Our Mission: To leave the industry better than we found it. To create famous and impactful work that you want to tell your mum about. To make a living and have fun doing it.

Our Needs: As our agency goes from strength to strength we need to equip ourselves for the future across all elements of our capabilities. One of the core areas being that of operational and account leadership across our agency’s International activation and investment teams.