Description

Agency :
Havas Media
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.
Job Description :
Account Executive
Reporting To: Account Manager
Office Location: HKX Building, 3 Pancras Square, Kings Cross
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 andour 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 as part of the Client Planning Team helping and supporting the team to deliver best in class media planning and activation strategies across key Havas clients including Westfield Shopping Centres, Hyundai, and Michelin. The role will provide experience across the retail and automotive categories as well as experience across the full spectrum of media, where you will gain exposure to working with different teams across the agency.
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 continue to adapt and listen to our people based on the current economic climate, in 2022 offering one-off cost of living payment, free breakfast every day and newly introduced free lunch at HKX the week prior to pay day.
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!
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.