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Account ManagerHavas Group
13 days ago
  • LevelMid Level
  • ProfessionsAccount Manager, Business Development Manager, Marketer
  • TypeFull Time
  • LocationLondon, United Kingdom

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Description

Closing Date: 27-Dec-2024

Agency :
Havas Media Group
Job Description Summary :
Reporting to the Account Director, this role is for an Account Manager position sitting as part of the ‘Music and Culture team. We are building a dynamic, responsive and collaborative team, aimed to find solutions and unique ways of working to create an optimal workflow between agency and client to deliver both best in class media executions and client servicing.
Job Description: ACCOUNT MANAGER – HAVAS ENTERTAINMENT (CULTURE TEAM)
Company Background
Havas Entertainment powered by Havas Media Group. Our 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 Manager
Reporting to the Account Director, this role is for an Account Manager position sitting as part of the ‘Music and Culture team. We are building a dynamic, responsive and collaborative team, aimed to find solutions and unique ways of working to create an optimal workflow between agency and client to deliver both best in class media executions and client servicing.
The role will be working across clients including the likes of UKTV and Penguin, all core clients to the team. There is a heavy focus on brand media, across all media channels. Across each working closely with the clients and client creative partners to create integrated campaign activations.
Success in role requires a blend of experience, intelligence and talent in multi-discipline media, client management, market liaison and commercial opportunities. As a key member of a talented team you will be involved in the development and application of planning principles, innovation and media best practices, media performance support, reporting, training and brand strategy. Your role will involve working directly with clients, agency partners and internal specialist agency divisions.
Job Description
The position requires a minimum of 3+ years working within a media agency environment. We need an enthusiastic and pro-active candidate who is accustomed to the pressures and quick turnarounds of key account handling across all media. The candidate should showcase specific skills and experience relating to digital buying and planning and must show a proficient level of knowledge in this discipline. Experience in managing campaigns, and familiarity with insight tools such as TGI, Comscore, YouGov etc. would be beneficial. We are also looking for someone who is creative and heart – can think of big and innovative ideas and has the skills to go and put these ideas out into the real world.
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.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities
Primary Focus: Develop a strong relationship with clients built on expertise, confidence, trust, enthusiasm and reliability of their business.
  • Ensure all campaigns are managed and executed to an exceptional standard.
  • Manage briefs, ensuring client stakeholders are receiving highest level of service and collaboration from the agency
General Work:  Day to day communication of updates and maintenance to both clients and agency departments involved in products.
  • Campaigns in brief.
  • Managing delivery of live campaigns and coordinating with internal departments.
  • Anticipating milestones and requirements on live campaigns are achievable, to ensure both client and agency departments are prepared in advance.
  • Reactive to adapt plans when circumstances change (release dates, budgets) and brief accordingly.
  • Ensuring all standard client requirements are delivered correct and on time (contact reports, monthly competitive reviews, online status reports).
  • Manage product lifecycle from media briefing to media strategy to planning and implementation.
Client Service: Presence at clients’ offices on a regular basis to sustain an elevated level of client service and partnership.
  • Attending kick-off meetings with all marketing agencies and clients.
  • Work with senior team to produce strategy and planning bespoke to each international territory
  • Work with senior team to present market, competitive and post-campaign analysis
  • Research and help organise media workshops with client marketing departments.
  • Ensure weekly round-ups of agency work is communicated in a concise and clear way.
Agency responsibilities: Ensure communication within the team at Havas Entertainment is standard practice to ensure information is dynamic for strategy and planning.
  • Attendance of regular Havas Entertainment events and wider industry events and learnings.
  • Work closely with other relevant teams around Havas – maintaining a good relationship and ways of working. This includes finance teams, insight teams and specialist activation teams.
Finally,
All our clients are enthusiastic, talented people that are enjoyable to work with; they recognise the time and effort we put into our standard of service and treat us as part of their team. As the industry is creative, so are the staff and that makes our job dynamic, involved and pioneering.
We are highly motivated, empowered and creative team. Due to this we are a company of enthusiasts within the entertainment business that genuinely enjoy the work we do and the company we work for. This opportunity allows for the individual not only to be involved in media innovation across all sectors and platforms but to work with one of the most innovative and fast-moving industry’s there is.
We are based in the HKX headquarters in Pancras Sq. (Kings Cross) and can offer the full spectrum of learning, campus training and facilities that come with this.
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
  • Campaigns
  • Client Service

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