Biddable Business Director (Luxury Brands)

About us – Havas Media Network Havas Media Network (HMN) employs over 950 people in the UK & Ireland. We work with clients to generate meaningful outcomes and are extremely proud of our proven track record for accelerating business growth and creating a meaningful difference. HMN spans London, Leeds, Manchester, and Edinburgh, servicing clients through our agency brands including Havas Media, Arena Media, Forward Media, Ledger Bennett, and Havas Market.

Across all agency brands, we have defined shared values that shape the way we work and define what we expect from our people:

• Human at Heart: You will respect, empower, and support others, fostering an inclusive workplace and creating meaningful experiences.
• Head for Rigour: You will take pride in delivering high-quality, outcome-focused work and continually strive for improvement.
• Mind for Flair: You will embrace diversity and bold thinking to craft brilliant, unique solutions.

These behaviours are integral to our culture and essential for delivering impactful work for our clients and colleagues.

THE ROLE This is an exciting position as a Biddable Business Director within Havas Media Network, with a focus on our luxury brand portfolio. You’ll be working with some of our most prestigious clients, with a strong emphasis on agility and best in class media delivery, alongside Client, Data & Engineering and Product & Investment teams. Working with the Head of Paid Social and Head of Programmatic, you’ll support the development of an innovative proposition across the agency, leading a team of Paid Social and Programmatic specialists to roll out learning initiatives across the client teams and groups, as well as create best practice processes and behaviours.

You are expected to strategically design and lead Biddable products and implementation for clients and drive a truly integrated direction across biddable channels. You are also expected to work closely with Investment & Trading teams to deliver commercial and quality targets across all activities, ensuring that investment on behalf of our clients is commercially optimal with proprietary products and preferred partners. You should be experienced in audience planning, implementation and measurement, and can comfortably and confidently talk about how to maintain the integrity of audience segmentations, from planning to buying.

You should be a visionary leader, as well as to be fully committed to turn vision into practice, with a deep commercial and operational mindset. The role is perfect for someone who has demonstrated solid leadership and management in the Paid Social and/or Programmatic industry, with an ambition to develop and use existing knowledge of all communication channels and how they work together within an integrated ecosystem. You’ll be required to translate complex biddable solutions to our current and potential clients, to support commercial growth through organic opportunities with non-biddable clients and demonstrate our proposition as part of new business pitches.

What we expect of the person in this role:

• Client: Become our clients’ most trusted partner by proactively communicating and managing expectations of internal and external stakeholders, building sustainable relationships with the clients and client teams.
• Work: Deliver more meaningful outcomes with a great track record in leading biddable planning and implementation and in challenging the status quo.
• Growth: Drive business growth & momentum by actively seeking opportunities to maximise biddable potential, improving biddable product proposition and being ahead of the curve of fast changing technology and industry trends.
• People: Make a meaningful difference to our people by effectively managing team resources and proactively optimising it to achieve efficiency and a high standard of our biddable output.
• Reputation: Be a force for good by continually acting as an ambassador for the agency at internal and external events, demonstrating our agency values.

We’re looking for:

• A natural leader with 6+ years solid experience and proven track record working with Paid Social and/or Programmatic teams, with strong planning, trading and operational experience.
• Excellent communication skills and able to educate internal and external stakeholders in understanding the role of Paid Social and Programmatic in the wider media mix.
• Good storyteller with great presentation skills and can think creatively.
• Able to articulate complex matters in a simple and easy-to-understand way.
• Strong interpersonal skills, comfortable working with many people of different backgrounds and skill sets.
• In-depth knowledge of all Paid Social and Programmatic tools as well as audience insight tools.
• Experience owning and leading a project from start to finish.
• Strong commercial mindset and always looking for opportunities to innovate for clients.
• Detail-oriented and organised with proficiency in MS Office, PowerPoint, Word and Excel.

Contract Type: Permanent

Equal Opportunity Statement: Here at Havas across the group we pride ourselves on being committed to offering equal opportunities to all potential employees and have zero tolerance for discrimination. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants irrespective of age, sex, race, ethnicity, disability and other factors that have no bearing on an individual’s ability to perform their job.