Media Account Executive

Agency

Havas Media Group

Job Description

About Havas Media Network

Havas Media Network is part of the sixth largest advertising network in the world, Havas Group. We are headquartered out of St Pancras, London, and along with offices in Leeds, Manchester and Edinburgh, we operate globally. Our CEO is Patrick (‘Paddy’) Affleck. Our overarching mission is to make a meaningful difference to the brands, businesses, and lives of the people we work with.

Our solution is simple: we identify and create meaningful media experiences to deliver meaningful growth for our clients. In the last two years, we’ve undergone a transformation that’s seen us bind together nine agencies into three core agency brands and propositions:

Havas Media – through which we deliver meaningful outcomes through meaningful media

Havas Market – through which we help clients build meaningful retail experiences

Arena Media – through which we help clients create meaningful moments in culture

In 2022, we’ve strengthened group-wide capabilities and expertise to match clients’ needs to unlock emerging growth opportunities in the ‘new economy’. Our acquisitions of leading agencies Search Laboratory, additive+ and Expert Edge are helping turbocharge our capabilities in search, DCO and ecommerce – with more to come.

We also launched a dedicated B2B division, Havas Business, to help clients seize on the huge opportunity of B2B marketing for clients.

We successfully won 16 new clients and retained a further 5, including BBC, Matalan, British Red Cross, Bumble, Bethesda and Dr Marten. We have also recently won a number of industry awards, Beer and Pub Association IPA Effectiveness Silver, BBC Outdoor Media awards Brand Building (Gold), Domino’s Outdoor Media awards Cross Format (Gold), Maersk Grand Prix for Effectiveness with WARC and Kia, Best Use of Search in the UK Search awards.

We are also extremely proud of our Campaign’s Sustainability Agency Best Practice win and we are soon to be B Corp certified. Above are some of the reasons why we’re on Campaign’s ‘Best Place to Work’ list each year and our Talent team has been awarded the IPA Gold CPD Accreditation. But we’re more than just great work and awards. Havas Media Group is a place where you can make things happen by pursuing your professional and personal dreams.

As such, we’ve also launched the ‘ Meaningfully Daring Side Hustle’ programme, while Havas Boost announced its first investment into STEM educational toys business, Ambessa Play.

About the Client

The BBC needs no introduction – one of the most famous and highly esteemed brands in the world. The account is split into two – this role will be supporting the BBC M&A team in Manchester (TV Licensing is managed out of London). The client is based in Media City, Salford, and we regularly spend time co-working in their offices; the client relationship benefits hugely from the close proximity. The BBC M&A team run Paid Media campaigns for some of the most iconic UK content brands such as The Traitors, The Apprentice, Race Across the World, Radio 1 & 2; support all international football tournaments such as the Women’s Euros and huge sporting events like the Olympics; and run always-on campaigns to support News, Masterbrand, iPlayer catalogue etc.

The MX Client Planning Executive is focused on helping MX Managers and MX Account Directors to ensure the BBC has the optimal media support in place. Working directly alongside your MX Manager, the role is centred around supporting the media planning process and managing the activation of advertising campaigns in various media channels like TV, radio, online, and social media.

The Client Planning Executive should have these skills:

• Strong Communication: Effective written and verbal communication skills via email, Teams and in person. You will be expected to engage regularly with both internal colleagues and clients.

• Basic Analytical Skills: Ability to analyse data and draw insights.

• Tech-Savvy: Proficiency in MS Office, especially Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook (email) and Teams.

• Creative Thinking: Ability to think innovatively about solving client challenges and overcome setbacks in process.

• Organizational Skills: Strong ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines.

• Team Collaboration: Ability to work well within a team.

In your first 6 months, you’ll develop the following:

• Demonstrating Curiosity and Learning: Regularly seek new knowledge through workshops, cross-departmental projects, self-study and analysing reports to identify trends and insights.

• Setting Self-Development Expectations with Line Manager: Collaborate with your manager to establish clear, actionable growth goals, as well as organising regular check ins with Line Manager to monitor progress.

• Receiving and Implementing Constructive Feedback: Actively listen to feedback, reflect on it, and implement changes for improvement.

• Sharing Knowledge and Learning with Peers: Engage in and promote knowledge-sharing activities within your team.

• Attention to detail: Review work carefully to catch errors and ensure it meets the requirements of the task. Examples include when reviewing reports written by other teams or drafting emails to send to the client.

• Recognising and Correcting Mistakes: Acknowledge errors, communicate them promptly to line managers, and collaborate on solutions.

• Commercial Awareness and Analytic Mindset: Stay informed about market trends and use performance reports to assess the effectiveness of various advertising channels, enabling data-driven decisions to optimize campaign results.

• Organising and Managing End-to-End Campaigns: Support MX Managers and Directors in delivering media planning solutions. Take responsibility for executing campaign activation from start to finish, including updating media schematics, delivering creative assets to internal teams and external partners, reporting on performance.

• Time Management: Independently organising and prioritising tasks based on campaign deadlines, staying in close communication with your Line Manager on progress.

What’s on offer from Havas

• We want you to do the best work of your career. To support you in managing your career, as well as your commitments and priorities in your life. We have created a modern, market leading approach to personal benefits, wellbeing, and care.
• We have shown at Havas, that we can all work productively in a new Hybrid manner.
• To give you even more flexibility, and support a better balance between work and life, Havas employees are given the opportunity to work remotely from anywhere in the world for up to 4 weeks per calendar year.
• Alongside a generous holiday allocation and birthday off, we are all allocated one day per quarter as mental health days. These are simply days you can take off, guilt free and without eating into your holiday allowance.
• We have modernised and introduced a market leading parental package for our employees. The Parental Life at Havas policy enhances, broadens, and encourages the uptake of parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, type of relationship, type of parentship or any other potentially defining characteristic. This means up to 6 months equal parenthood leave, paid at 100% to Parental Support & Fertility Support Loans and much more.
• We also haven’t forgotten about those benefits that make a meaningful difference to you personally, from a Rental Deposit Loan (so you can secure your new place), season ticket loan to ease travel and free mortgage advice for the getting on the property ladder we have you covered and much more!
• We haven’t lost the fun stuff either, subsidised gym membership, social club, early Friday finishes

We work in a hybrid working model – in office and remotely

Current policy is for minimum 3 days in office.

Office Location: 11 York Street, Manchester M2 2AW

Contract Type : Permanent

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.