Senior Account Executive

Hybrid Agency : Havas Media Group Job Description Summary : This is a fantastic opportunity to join our Publishing Display & Commercial Team in a Senior Executive position. The Publishing department is responsible for the planning and buying of advertising campaigns in Print and Digital newsbrands, including National Newspapers, Regional Press and Consumer Magazines, across a portfolio of clients. The Senior Account Executive supports the Publishing Managers in all day to day buying and campaign delivery. Job Description : About Havas Media Group Havas Media Group is part of the sixth largest advertising network in the world, Havas Group, which is owned by French mass media holding company, Vivendi. 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 Havas Entertainment - 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. The Role: This is a fantastic opportunity to join our Publishing Display & Commercial Team in a Senior Executive position. The Publishing department is responsible for the planning and buying of advertising campaigns in Print and Digital newsbrands, including National Newspapers, Regional Press and Consumer Magazines, across a portfolio of clients. The Senior Account Executive supports the Publishing Managers in all day to day buying and campaign delivery. Key responsibilities of the role include: Business

• Update campaign positioning daily, reporting results to the Publishing Manager or clients when relevant
• Take ownership of daily campaign planning and buying, including schedule creation, booking, tracking, and post campaign reporting
• Escalate any campaign delivery issues to Manager / Director
• Learn and hone skills across the Publishing marketplace, inclusive of digital newsbrands. Build a solid understanding of the market and the cross-platform advertising opportunities within.
• Support the team in delivering annual barter requirements
• Develop cohesive and effective relationships with key media partners

Client:

• Develop professional and trusted relationships with your clients and accommodate their requirements
• Demonstrate passion, pride, and professionalism to delight your clients and effectively articulate the power and role of the Publishing landscape
• Ensure accurate delivery of campaigns to brief and manage market fluctuations
• Interrogate and understand the client’s business and ensure that delivery across publishing media supports and delivers a return to client
• Show rigour and attention to detail when buying vs plan and agreed KPIs

Collaboration:

• Collaborate with planning teams to ensure first-class client service
• Proactively engage with key media partners to drive incremental revenue into the Publishing Display Team
• Work closely with the wider Investment & Activation team to ensure overall client delivery requirements are met
• Contribute to our culture of passion, pride, and investment excellence
• Operate as ‘one team’ to deliver the very best output
• Always epitomise professional conduct and treat colleagues with respect

Who we’re looking for:

• 1-2 years relevant industry experience
• Strong presentation, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Keen problem solver
• Highly numerate
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Strong work ethic – self-motivated and able to take the initiative
• A positive attitude – enthusiastic and willing to learn

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 and we have arrived at our Hybrid Working experiment which you will benefit from.
• 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%*
  • 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!

Skills : 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. Due to high volume of applications, only eligible or matching candidates will be contacted by us.