AV Account Director

London, England, United Kingdom

12/23/2024

Reporting To: AV Business Director

Office Location: Havas Village London, 3 Pancras Sq, London, N1C 4AG, U.K.

About Havas Media Network

Havas is one of the world’s largest global communications groups, employing over 20,000 people in over 100 countries around the world.

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The Role

Following a number of new business wins at Havas Media Network, we have created an additional Account Director Role within our talented and thriving AV team. As a key member of the Audio-Visual team you will be responsible for the planning and delivery of first-class campaigns for a range of clients across several highly competitive market sectors including automotive; as well as managing and inspiring a team of AV Executives and an AV Manager.

There are 6 AD led teams within the department and the right person will play a critical role in supporting Havas Group’s growth, being focussed on goal and target delivery, as well as creating and delivering smart strategic thinking for our clients.

We are looking for someone with a proven background and passion across planning and buying Audio-Visual media (TV, VOD, Cinema & Audio), with a strong profile with the media owner community. The individual must have great people skills, and ability to effectively lead a team.

The role reports into the AV Business Director.

Key Responsibilities

Exceptional client service & activation:

• Ensuring professional and trusted relationships with your clients
• Overseeing planning, buying and delivery of price/quality and audit requirements across your portfolio of clients
• Crafting all client proposals based on solid evidence and rationale
• Managing all deliverables and deadlines across your team
• Understanding clients’ businesses and our role in contributing to their success.
• Running weekly status meetings to ensure absolute visibility and control
• Cementing key role as ‘go to’ for day-to-day trading - both internally and externally
• Understanding wider market context and debating with the team in order that any pertinent dynamics can be communicated to clients in good time with clear rationale and required action
• Working closely with digital activation, social and programmatic teams to ensure effective planning, activation and tracking of VOD campaigns
  
  

Operational Excellence & Commercial Management

• Fostering a culture of operational excellence within your team
• Driving responsibility, accountability and ownership across your direct reports
• Ensuring appropriate levels of service are achieved
• Quality control of team output, response to brief, and problem solving
• Optimising performance across the team via setting appropriate KPIs
• Ensuring bookings, timesheets, expenses, reconciliations, and any other deliverables are completed accurately and within agreed time frame
• Overseeing media owner relationships and co-ordination
• Flagging campaign variances in good time to ensure delivery is controlled and communicated
• Strong relationship management with media auditors and ownership of output and delivery
• Driving creativity within activation and generate award winning work
  
  

People Management

• Supporting Head of AV & BD to instil appropriate culture to ensure a high performing and motivated team
• Working as a collaborative team player across Havas, actively supporting colleagues and sharing learnings
• Engendering a culture and belief which encourages people to suggest thoughts and ideas to improve the service we provide for our clients
• Instilling a culture across team founded on our common and shared values
• Conducting reviews and setting of personal objectives for direct reports
• Monitor and manage workload and happiness across your team
• Ensuring team output is aligned with client and agency requirements
• Epitomise professional conduct and treat colleagues with respect
• Be an ambassador for Havas Group Media at all times
  
  

What We’re Looking For

• The right person will play a critical role in planning and buying innovative and effective campaigns for our clients
• The ideal candidate will have proven planning and buying experience across Audio Visual media (including Audio), and with a solid understanding of strategy and planning
• A minimum of 5 years’ media agency experience
• Positive and collaborative attitude, being able to make informed decisions and build strong relationships to deliver results
• Fantastic team player with a flexible and down to earth approach
• Experience of leading a team and developing direct reports
• A resilient self-starter who has the skills to juggle multiple requirements
• Passion for delivery and innovation. Strong attention to detail and relentlessly focussed on identifying and optimising value for clients and Havas
• A detailed understanding of the audit process within AV
• New business and pitching experience desirable