Account Manager

About Us: We are Havas Market, part of the Havas Media Group. Our mission is to create meaningful connections between people and brands to drive business success with one vision, one voice and one P&L. Havas is the only truly integrated marketing and communications company in the UK. A multi-disciplinary offering, all united under one leadership, all in one building. Advertising, media, data, and technology, digital, social, mobile, CRM, UX, sports and entertainment, public relations, corporate communications, healthcare, design, research, employer branding and recruitment.

Havas Market is Havas Media Group’s specialist connected commerce agency which provides support to clients, end to end across all their brand, performance & digital retail channels. We combine expert execution skills, powerful technology/data analytics and strategic consulting skills to deliver above market growth and help clients outmanoeuvre competitors. As such, engagements are multi-channel (D2C, marketplace, Social Commerce, rewards hub), multi-product (managed service, advisory and/or tech/tools) and multi-national.

The Role: This role sits within our Havas Market Account team, which focuses on connected commerce strategies for our clients, spanning brand, performance and retail channels. As an Account Manager, you will own the day-to-day management of key clients, helping (with support from the Account Director) to provide central strategic management of all channels to deliver growth for your clients. You will leverage combined knowledge from yourself and your team to come up with solutions to address clients’ daily businesses challenges, ensuring you are mentoring and managing more junior members of the team, and orchestrating cross-functional teams to deliver joined up strategies, plans and results for clients.

Key Responsibilities:

• Client Relationship Management
• Own day-to-day client relationships, acting as the central point of contact for all campaign matters
• Lead weekly status calls, manage the status sheet, and ensure all actions and deadlines are met
• Lead client meetings and deliver against all agreed SLAs (meetings, calls, reporting)
• Resolve issues quickly and anticipate ways to mitigate future challenges, escalating where needed
• Partner with the Business Development Manager, Account Director, and Digital Strategist to understand client goals and communicate these to the wider team
• Strategy & Planning
• Support your Director in developing strategies, campaign planning content, ad hoc briefs, and annual plans
• Put forward smart ideas aligned with client short and long-term goals
• Input into client roadmaps and work with the Account Director to prioritise deliverables
• Develop incremental business proposals in line with agency priorities
• Define target audiences using relevant tools, supporting recommendations with previous work
• Collaborate with the Digital Strategist on strategy reviews and budget allocation across channels
• Campaign & Project Management
• Effectively project manage all aspects of campaigns, ensuring channels, people, and tasks are well organised and deadlines are met consistently
• Ensure all campaign team members have shared knowledge across all aspects of the campaign, working towards one unified goal
• Take ownership of the onboarding process for new clients and additional services, including immersion sessions, setup meetings, agency handovers, cross-channel implementation plans, and final sign-off
• Ensure new information is shared with the full team and integrated into the digital strategy
• Constantly review content and operations, making suggestions for improvements to ensure clients have best-in-class digital shelves
• Reporting & Analysis
• Own weekly and monthly performance reports, drawing out actionable insights and challenging activation teams where needed
• Lead the PCA process: briefing teams, collating slides, and presenting results
• Communicate results, tests, and optimisations clearly to internal and external stakeholders
• Financial Management
• Manage cross-channel invoicing and ensure budgets are fulfilled, auditable, and billed correctly
• Lead financial booking and reconciliation; ensure billing accuracy and timeliness
• Understand relevant commercial terms and processes to deliver agreed outcomes
• New Business & Growth
• Support the Account Director with collecting intelligence for pitch work and new business opportunities
• Team Leadership & Development
• Manage and mentor executive(s): prioritise tasks, set objectives, and ensure development opportunities across all disciplines
• Proactively identify & resolve challenges within delivery or team; providing constructive and solutions-based feedback

Essential skills and experience:

• Very strong operational knowledge of key media, digital performance channels; analytics and measurement
• A good working knowledge of Amazon Ads, Marketplaces, Retail Media and Social Commerce also an asset
• Proven ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial startup in which cross-functional teamwork and initiative are essential.
• Strong organisation and project management capabilities.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Data-driven approach to analysis with strong strategic thinking skills
• Excellent communication, listening and presenting skills.
• Regularly gives constructive feedback to the team and reports, understanding how the needs of one individual differ from another.
• Experience with people management, including the development of direct report’s Objectives, Reviews and 1-2-1s.
• Very strong experience in a client facing role & ability to build relationships with external stakeholders.
• Excel acumen with strong analytical capabilities, with the ability to translate these into commercial strategies.
• Someone with a positive attitude who will help build a passionate culture in our team.
• Fluent in spoken and written English

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: Competitive parental leave offering Parental Support & Fertility Support Loans Pregnancy Support, Coaching & Pregnancy Loss Leave Return to Work Support System We also haven’t forgotten about those benefits that make a meaningful difference to you, from a Havas Pension Scheme, Group Income Protection and free Mortgage Advice to retail discounts with Havas Perks and Health Insurance, we have you covered and much more!

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.