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Account ExecutiveHavas Group
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  • LevelJunior
  • ProfessionsAccount Executive, Business Development Executive, Administrator
  • TypeFull Time
  • LocationLondon, United Kingdom

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Description

Agency :
Havas Media Group
Job Description Summary :

The Media Executive is a key role within the team, focused on supporting the MX Associate Director and MX Manager to ensure the client has the optimal media support in place.  Working alongside your Mx Manager, the role focuses on media planning and activation, specifically the point where the strategy is translated into a Media Experience (Mx) for clients. This role is to work on/across
This role is to work on/across JDE (Jacobs Douwe and Egberts (coffee brands) & EDF Energy
Job Description :
Account Executive
About Havas Media Network
Havas Media Network 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

Over the last few years, 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, enhance by our most recent acquisition, Ledger Bennett, to help clients seize on the huge opportunity of B2B marketing for clients.
We successfully won 16 new clients and retained a further 7, including BBC, Matalan, Homebase, Sega, Bumble, Bethesda and Dr Marten, with our most recent wins, Ocado and Abercrombie & Kent   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.   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
The Media Executive is a key role within the team, focused on supporting the MX Associate Director and MX Manager to ensure the client has the optimal media support in place.  Working alongside your Mx Manager, the role focuses on media planning and activation, specifically the point where the strategy is translated into a Media Experience (Mx) for clients.
This role is to work on a newly won client, Animal Friends & existing client Viatris.
About Animal Friends: Animal Friends are a new client win for Havas Media Network. Multi-award winning, Animal Friends offer affordable pet insurance that is created to support animal welfare.
Trusted to insure over 1 million dogs, cats, and horses, for over 25 years’, Animal Friends have been dedicated to providing UK owners with unique pet insurance cover and are now expanding their UK operation.
Our role and responsibilities within Havas Media Network is to help the brand transition from being a primarily performance focus advertiser, to a brand that utilising upper funnel advertising tactics to help target new and emerging customer cohorts via ATL channels (AV, including TV, BVOD, Audio etc).
About Viatris: A global healthcare company with a local approach. Born in 2020 from the combination of two previously well-established pharmaceutical organisations, and with a mission to empower people to live healthier lives regardless of geography or circumstance.
As one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the UK, their heritage means that some of their medicines have been helping patients for more than 60 years and they are proud to support the NHS with access to affordable medicines.  Viatris are a global client for Havas and this role is specifically for the UK market and covers brands including Viagra Connect, Difflam and CB12.  Our award winning planning work covers key ATL channels with digital being a core part of the media mix.
What behaviours we need from you:
This may very well be your first role in media, so we are looking for someone who has a genuine interest in the industry and keen to learn by:
  • Demonstrating curiosity and take advantage of learning opportunities internally and externally
  • Working with your line manager to set clear self-development expectations
  • Being able to receive constructive feedback and build that into their day-to-day work
  • Sharing knowledge and learning with other Executives
  • Recognising and accepting mistakes that sit within their remit and contribute to putting things right
Role competencies:
The role will be assessed and appraised on how you:
  • Actively seeks to understand and listens to others' opinions and points of view
  • Proactively engages with the wider team to develop a holistic understanding of what we do for our clients
  • Understands the service commitments to stakeholders and takes an active role in the partnership by attending meetings, taking notes & sharing knowledge, communicating insights etc
  • Quickly raises problems with delivery of work to minimise impact on others
  • Demonstrates an ability to identify, discuss and communicate better ways of working with colleagues, to help
  • Proactively demonstrates that they care about the team in which they operate, hand-raising to get involved with tasks and help out where needed
  • Can develop and deliver information in a clear and concise manner that is tailored to the audience
  • Produces work which is clear, accurate and grammatically correct
  • Can efficiently and accurately notify relevant stakeholders when they've completed work they've produced and how this will impact on them.
  • Is able to express negative feelings constructively
  • Checks own understanding of others communication by seeking clarification, paraphrasing and asking questions
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 and weekly bar nights at HKX are all included with a few Universal Music Group showcases thrown in for good measure throughout the year!
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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.

Skills Required

  • Account Management
  • Stakeholder Engagement
  • Communication Skills

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