Agency :
Havas Media
Job Description :
FOWARD
Media MX Manager (Account Manager)
Reporting to: MX Associate Director / Client Lead – Business Director
Location: Havas Village London, 3 Pancras Square, London N1C 4AG (Travel to client offices across the UK as needed.)
Our Ambition
At Havas Media Network we create Meaningful Media that drives growth for the world’s most ambitious brands. Guided by our values—Human at Heart, Head for Rigour, and Mind for Flair—we embed genuine human insight, data-driven discipline and creative daring into everything we do.
This role sits at the heart of that promise—bridging day-to-day planning with specialist capabilities to ensure data-driven thinking enhances every stage of media delivery.
Overview
The MX Manager is a key role within the team, focused on supporting the MX Associate Director and Client Director or Business Director to ensure the client has the optimal media support in place. Working alongside your Mx Associate Director, the role focuses on media planning and activation, specifically the point where the strategy is translated into a media experience for clients. This role is to work across a luxury global brand.
What behaviours we need from you:
Be the engine of the team’s delivery. Turn learning into action: you know the basics and now you’re making things happen. Own your part of the process, support junior team members, and keep things running smoothly. Step up, communicate, and help turn plans into reality while still building your expertise. You’re the first “go-to” for many daily questions and a support for both the Executives and your Director.
Living the Values:
- Rigour: Bring discipline to your work – make sure everything you deliver is clear, accurate, and delivered on time.
- Flair: Spot chances to make things better and speak up with new ideas. Don’t just do things the way they’ve always been done.
- Human at heart: Look out for your teammates, especially those more junior. Be approachable, patient, and a positive influence on team culture
Role Competencies:
The successful candidate will be able to deliver upon the following -
- Owning day-to-day relationships with key media owners and clients
- Able to effectively communicate results, tests and day-to-day optimisations with internal and external teams
- Responsible for billing accuracy and timeliness and lead the financial booking and reconciliation process for campaign on their clients
- Works with a Director to develop incremental business proposals in line with wider agency priorities
- Can identify and understand relevant commercial terms, processes, and concepts to deliver agreed outcomes
- Is able to identify and define target audiences built out from relevant tools on who the target audience should be and cites previous work to support their ideas.
- Become efficient in using relevant industry tool, for example, Telmar, Touchpoints, Hitwise , Addynamix, Mediaplanner, YouGov
- Has a clear understanding of the steps within Havas Planning process and support the delivery of the overall strategy
- Able to create channel briefs with support
People/Team Management:
- Coordinating the work of others effectively
- Actively sharing knowledge among peers
- Enabling the development of junior reports, and working with a Director to produce development plans for more junior members of the team, ensuring they have opportunities to learn all the expected disciplines
- Effectively delivers constructive feedback to peers and is receptive to feedback
- Demonstrates initiative in professional self-development
- Supports others in taking independent action
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!
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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.
