Description

Agency :
Havas Media Group
Job Description Summary :

Reporting to the team Account Manager, the candidate will be an Account Executive working in a team of 6, including an 2x AD, 2x AMs and one other AE. This team at Havas Entertainment covers the entire gaming portfolio which includes clients like SEGA and Wizards of the Coast, and will be planning and buying media across the EMEA & APAC territories.
Job Description :
Account Executive

Havas Entertainment
Established in 1990, Target Media was acquired by Havas Media Group in 2016 in a bid to strengthen their entertainment offering. In 2021, the Target brand was retired and now forms part of a wider Havas Entertainment. Havas Entertainment’s mission is to make a meaningful difference to the brands, the businesses, and the lives of the people we work with. This is more relevant than ever. In the current climate and market conditions it has never been more important to help our clients identify and leverage their point of meaningful difference to give them disproportionate competitive advantage in an effort to help them grow. We create meaningful outcomes.
We are perfectly positioned to do this. We maximise collaboration and offer our clients a powerful combination of creative, content and media excellence, with the necessary scale and agility to make it happen.

Havas Entertainment will operate at the intersection of entertainment, creative, media & technology with the promise of creating meaningful experiences in culture. Importantly it will enable us to build a more effective bridge with Vivendi through a focused entertainment proposition.

Account Executive
Reporting to the team Account Manager, the candidate will be an Account Executive working in a team of 6, including an 2x AD, 2x AMs and one other AE. This team at Havas Entertainment covers the entire gaming portfolio which includes clients like SEGA and Wizards of the Coast, and will be planning and buying media across the EMEA & APAC territories.
Job Description
The position requires someone who is passionate and gaming and the games industry. We need an enthusiastic and pro-active candidate who is accustomed to the pressures and quick turnarounds of account handling across all media. The candidate should have enthusiasm and a passion for the games that they are going to be working across as well as a proficient knowledge across all media channels.
The candidate should showcase specific skills and experience relating to both digital and offline campaign planning and must show a proficient level of knowledge in this discipline. Familiarity with insight tools such as TGI, AdDynamix and YouGov, would also be beneficial.
The candidate should also be comfortable at ensuring media bookings are put onto the finance system in an accurate and timely manner and that internal PO trackers and campaign laydowns are kept up to date.
Due to the nature of our agency and business, the candidate must have good communication skills; able to multi-task to an exceptional level; good organisational skills and understand that a high level of service to our clients is expected. They should also be a creative thinker – someone who is willing to put forward smart, innovative and creative ideas to help address our client’s challenges.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities
Primary Focus: Set-up, implement and optimise digital campaigns for gaming clients.
Ensure all digital campaigns are executed to an exceptional standard.
Assist the team on campaign planning and buying across the game’s division portfolio.
Trafficking digital campaigns accurately and on-time.
Pull together reports based on advertising campaigns to submit to clients
Prepare accurate and comprehensive competitive data reports with insightful observations and analysis.
General Work: Day to day campaign digital implementation and set-up of gaming campaigns.
Help the team adapt plans when circumstances change (release dates, budgets) and brief media owners accordingly.
Ensuring all standard client requirements are delivered correct and on time (contact reports, monthly competitive reviews, online status reports).
Responsible for the finance admin and processes – putting bookings on the system, checking against plans, managing the PO tracker, reconciling media spends.
Agency responsibilities: Ensure a pro-active and collaborative approach to working with the internal teams is always upheld.
Attendance of regular game team update meetings to share plans, share experience, and discuss possible area’s plans can approve.
Work closely with the Games Digital team to deliver brilliant, innovative digital campaigns.
Share a passion for the games industry with the teams at Havas Entertainment
Other Information
Office hours are 9.15am – 5.30pm Monday to Friday.
25 days holiday per annum.
4 days mental health allowance
Full training will be provided once evaluation of skill set has been undertaken.
Hybrid Working (3 days a week in the office)
Finally,
The gaming industry is one of the most forward-thinking around and is still growing rapidly. All the clients are enthusiastic, talented people that are enjoyable to work with; recognise the time and effort we put into our standard of service and treat us as part of their team. As the industry is young and creative, so are the staff and that makes our job dynamic, involved and pioneering.
Havas Entertainment represents a similar approach. We are highly motivated, empowered and creative. Due to this we are a company of enthusiasts within the entertainment business that truly enjoy the work we do and the company we work for. This opportunity allows for the individual not only to be involved media innovation across all sectors and platforms but to work with one of the most innovative and fast-moving industry’s there is.
Target’s acquisition by the Havas Media Group has meant that alongside are entertainment specialism we now have considerable group scale to bolster our profile in the market. We now have a new home in the brand new HKX headquarters in Pancras Sq. (Kings Cross) and can offer the full spectrum of learning, campus training and facilities that come with this.
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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.