Account Manager - Media Planning

Havas Media UK London (Hybrid)

About Havas Media Network

Havas Media Network (HMN) employees over 900 people in the UK & Ireland. We are passionate about helping our clients create more Meaningful Brands through the creation and delivery of more valuable experiences. Our Havas mission: To make a meaningful difference to the brands, the businesses and the lives of the people we work with.

HMN UK spans London, Leeds, Manchester & Edinburgh, servicing our clients brilliantly through our agencies including Ledger Bennett, Havas Market, Havas Media, Arena Media, DMPG and Havas Play Network.

Our Ambition

At Havas Media Network we create Meaningful Media that drives growth for the world’s most ambitious brands. Guided by our values—Human at Heart, Head for Rigour, and Mind for Flair—we embed genuine human insight, data-driven discipline and creative daring into everything we do. This role sits at the heart of that promise—bridging day-to-day planning with specialist capabilities to ensure data-driven thinking enhances every stage of media delivery.

The MX Client Planning Manager is focused on helping MX Account Directors to ensure clients have the optimal media support in place. Working directly alongside your MX Director, 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 Role

BC TV Licensing account is a key element of the overall BBC portfolio within Havas. Having recently retained the account for the 3rd time, we are continuing to evolve and expand their media activation across a breadth of channels. We are looking for someone who collaborates well within an integrated team relationship alongside the client and their creative and marketing agency. It’s a fast paced, multi-faceted account which requires excellent account management and organisational skills to manage a number of stakeholders. As a significant proportion of the funding of the BBC, the TV Licensing activity requires us to deliver comms to large, diverse audiences across the UK, whilst ensuring every pound spent is measured through a robust framework. We are looking for a team player who will be responsible for helping to continue to drive the team forward and deliver operational excellence.

BBC Marketing is split across Manchester & London. The London account team are tasked with management and development of the Performance driven element. This includes complimenting the organic & CRM activity known as LifeCycle, which is tasked with keeping people engaging with the BBC, and App based marketing activities across the BBC roster of apps. This is a growth based function within the team requiring someone with experience managing growth specific campaigns and conversion driving digital channels. The role is a good mix of client comms and internal stakeholder management, so we are looking for a team player who doesn’t mind getting stuck in and wearing multiple hats.

What behaviours we need from you:

As a Mx Manager, you are the heartbeat of the agency and your team at Havas. You will be a positive, motivated individual with a can-do attitude and you’ll be continuing to build out your media understanding and learning.

Core Responsibilities:

• Support the MX Associate Director and Account Executive in day-to-day media planning, activation, and campaign delivery
• Coordinate and manage campaign workflows and timelines to ensure smooth delivery
• Own and manage relationships with key media owners and internal teams
• Ensure campaign billing, booking and reconciliation processes are accurate and timely
• Train and coach Executives, helping to develop their skills and supporting them to understand media fundamentals
• Communication responsibilities, both written and oral, across both client and internal teams
• Responsibility for quality and accuracy of all deliveries

Key Goals and Objectives:

• Consistently deliver client work to brief, on time, and with high accuracy
• Contribute towards daily-weekly-monthly goals through supporting other team members
• Take responsibility for quality control across all outputs
• Contribute towards department growth by mentoring and supporting juniors

Technical Skills & Competencies:

• Good understanding of media planning and activation processes
• Able to use key industry and agency tools
• Ability to brief and manage financial processes
• Data literacy – can analyse and communicate campaign performance

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 allocate 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 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 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 haven’t lost the fun stuff either - social club, early Friday finishes.

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.

Founded in 1835 by Charles-Louis Havas, Havas is one of the world’s largest global communications groups, with more than 23,000 people in over 100 countries sharing one single mission: to make a meaningful difference to brands, businesses, and people. Havas has developed a fully integrated model covering all communications activities. The teams of the three business units, Creative, Media and Health & You, work together with agility and in perfect synergy to offer clients tailor-made, meaningful, innovative and entertainment-oriented solutions that support them in their positive transformation.

Life at Havas

We take great pride in our Havas family. They bring many unique personalities, perspectives and passions to their work. Collaboration is at the core of how we operate, and Havas Villages are the homes we work in. We encourage our people to take advantage of our many opportunities to learn and grow. Through local agency training sessions, our unique global and development programs, we offer our people endless opportunities to explore.