Hybrid
Agency :
Havas Media Group
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. This role is to work on/across
This role is to work on/across JDE (Jacobs Douwe and Egberts (coffee brands) & EDF Energy
Job Description :
Account Executive
About Havas Media Network
Havas Media Network 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
Over the last few years, 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, enhance by our most recent acquisition, Ledger Bennett, to help clients seize on the huge opportunity of B2B marketing for clients.
We successfully won 16 new clients and retained a further 7, including BBC, Matalan, Homebase, Sega, Bumble, Bethesda and Dr Marten, with our most recent wins, Ocado and Abercrombie & Kent 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. Above are some of the reasons why we’re on Campaign’s ‘
Best Place to Work
’ list each year and
our 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 on/across
This role is to work on/across JDE (Jacobs Douwe and Egberts (coffee brands) & EDF Energy
Jacobs Douwe Egberts (JDE) is a leading pure-play coffee and tea company, selling their products in more than 100 countries globally. In the UK, Havas Media supports 3 of their well-known coffee brands; Kenco, L’OR and Tassimo. Kenco reached its 100-year anniversary in 2023 and remains in a strong category position across the instant coffee range. L’OR launched their first ever coffee machine (L’OR Barista) and is going from strength to strength while challenging the more established Nespresso. We expect 2025 to bring lots of opportunity and positive challenges. We are looking for someone who wants to join the team and help us further grow the strong client relationships we’ve built over the past 4 years.
EDF Energy is the UK’s largest generator of zero-carbon electricity, focused on developing domestic wind, nuclear, and solar energy to decrease dependence on imports and mitigate future price increases. Havas Media manages EDF’s media campaigns, highlighting the company’s commitment to net-zero and its value to current and prospective customers. As we approach 2025, an exciting year for EDF, we are seeking someone to support our team in creating standout campaigns that differentiate us from competitors in advertising and partnerships. This role involves assisting with daily planning tasks that contribute to campaigns showcasing EDF’s innovative products, including energy solutions, electric vehicles, solar panels, and heat pumps. Together with Havas Media, EDF is transforming the energy market towards a greener future.
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 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!

LI-TA1

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

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 righ

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 question