Description

Agency :
Havas London
Job Description Summary :

As New Business Specialist you will be responsible for the way we sell the agency externally working across multiple industries. Working with the new business and wider agency teams you will focus on taking our RFI, RFP and pitch presentations to the next level.
Job Description :
New Business Manager – Havas London
Reporting To: Head of Growth, Havas London
Office Location: HKX Building, 3 Pancras Square, Kings Cross, London
Havas London
Havas London is a full-service creative agency with innovation at its core. Our mission is simply to make a difference through creativity.
We believe networks are powered by a strong culture and shared vision, and that inspiration and ideas must flow freely from global to local, and local to global—all powered by one thing: collaboration. We like to think of Havas as the smallest big network in the world. We are an entrepreneurial culture at heart. We believe our advantage lies in our combination of small, accountable, multi-skilled teams with networked access to specialists and local market know-how around the globe.
The team
Havas London’s new business team has one objective, to drive growth and further raise the profile of the agency, its work and its people. We do this across five key areas:
Generating new business opportunities. Converting and winning pitches. Creating relationships with new prospects and maintaining relationships with intermediaries. Generating noise around work and wins across the core brands. Maintaining (and furthering) the external perception of the Havas London brand.
The role
Reporting into the Head of Growth at Havas London, the New Business Manager will play a key role in driving new business through the agency, bringing opportunitites into the business, managing RFI responses, playing a pivotal role with processes and logisitics, writing case studies, creating brilliant chemistry meetings and working across the entire agency to ensure the pitches are won.
Another key part of this role is to ensure that we are amplifying the agency’s work and thought leadership, working closely with the Global New Business team to deliver compelling content across PR, marketing and social media.
The network is focused on integration, so  there will also be opportunities to work with other agencies within the village and respresent Havas London at a group and global level. As such, this role would suit someone who prefers an open and collaborative working style.
Responsibilities would include:
Be the ‘go-to’ new business support person for the agency.
Manage the process for RFIs/RFPs/Pitches ensuring the new business machine runs smoothly, quickly and efficiently.
Support on integrated RFI’s and pitches across the network.
Maintain the New Business library so that information is easily accessible, including RFI submissions, pitch decks and case studies.
You will handle all agency case studies, this includes managing the library of existing materials, working with the Head of Growth and Client Services team to identify new case studies and leading on the creation process.
Be responsible for status reports, trackers and content plans.
Working alongside the Head of Growth, you’ll own the development of, and ongoing updates to agency credentials, ensuring they are up-to-date, relevant and templated, you’ll also assist with the production of pre-meeting creds.
We are looking for
As this is a new role, we are looking for someone who would relish the opportunity to make it their own and bring new ideas to the department:
Experience working in the industry (creative agencies, interemediaries). Network agency experience is a bonus, but not required.
Experience working on government proposals and opportunities a bonus.
A strong communicator.
Someone who makes things happens and likes to be accountable.
Someone who can drive internal engagement and promote new business within the agency.
A confident self-starter with a can-do attitude and the ability to work under pressure.
Ability to work independently, managing your own workload, deadlines and priorities.
Proven organisational skills and work in an agile and accommodating way.
Bring passion and energy to the team; always looking for ways to improve what we do.
A team player who shows willingness to support the agency.
Attention to detail to make sure we deliver outstanding work that we are proud of.
Confidence to be able to deal with the most senior level stakeholders.
Be proficient in the use of Microsoft office.
What we can offer
You'll get the agility, entrepreneurship and sense of ownership of a small agency, with the support of a big agency network.
Central London office in King’s Cross
25 days holiday + a day off for your birthday. The agency is usually closed between Christmas and New Year too.
Hybrid working.
A wide range of benefits - including free breakfast, deals on gym memberships and shopping discounts to name just a few.
A strong commitment to Diversity & Inclusion.
We prioritise employees’ health & wellbeing – with a range of weekly HIIT sessions, guided meditations, wellness webinars, personal development coaching etc.
A strong commitment to training and development.
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.