Hybrid
Agency :
Havas Media
Job Description Summary :
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Job Description :
Mx Manager
Reporting To: Account Directors
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 three 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
Across 2022-23, 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 fuelled by the acquisition of Ledger Bennett.
We are using this capability strength to win and retain a breadth of clients as we see YoY growth for our business. Successes have included retention of key clients such as BBC & EDF whilst adding new brands to our portfolior including Matalan, SEGA, Bumble, Dr Marten & Ocado. We have also recently won a number of industry awards, 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 Mx Manager is a key role within the team, focused on supporting the MX Associate Director and MX Executive 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, ensuring you are helping delivery the strategy and driving Media Experience (Mx) for your clients.
This role is to work on Starbucks (Retail) & Animal Friends (Insurance)
About Starbucks: A globally iconic and recognisable brand, Starbucks are a business that pride themselves on creating modern, diverse, progressive communications, positioning them as category leading innovators around the world. We have been working closely in collaboration with this client to deliver:
To deliver best in class, innovative media strategy, planning & buying. Our work is focused on nurturing brand metrics, support seasonal campaigns and continuing to grow the Starbucks loyalty program in the UK. With a particular planning focus on Gen-Z, Havas have successfully developed & deployed Award Winning Outdoor, Paid Social & Audio strategies for Starbucks UK campaigns. 2025/2026 planning currently also presents exciting opportunities for our work to expand into Video & Partnerships strategies.
To contribute towards the coordination of the UK integrated agency team (Creative Agency, PR, In-store & Experiential) ensuring strong collaboration & integration for more meaningful & effective campaigns. We are responsible for ensuring seamless Ways of Working for wider agency stakeholders, deployment of this process and facilitating best in class integration of campaigns across all comms touchpoints for the client.
Measurement projects & strategic consult. Havas has played an integral role for this client in providing wider strategic communications guidance & support. On top of this, Havas also conduct ongoing measurement projects including Brand Tracking, Campaign Tracking and Econometrics modelling for Starbucks in this market which feeds into all integrated agency thinking.
About Animal Friends: Animal Friends are a new client win for Havas Media Network. Multi-award winning, Animal Friends offer affordable pet insurance that is created to support animal welfare.
Trusted to insure over 1 million dogs, cats, and horses, for over 25 years’, Animal Friends have been dedicated to providing UK owners with unique pet insurance cover and are now expanding their UK operation.
Our role and responsibilities within Havas Media Network is to help the brand transition from being a primarily performance focus advertiser, to a brand that utilising upper funnel advertising tactics to help target new and emerging customer cohorts via ATL channels (AV, including TV, BVOD, Audio etc).
Your role will be to work together with the MX Associate Director and leadership team to run the day-to-day operations of the accounts including providing excellent campaign planning & implementation, developing strategic insights & thinking, helping leading client & agency stakeholder comms & process, campaign reporting, finance management, managing client ADHOC requests and helping to develop the skills & knowledge of the MX Account Executive.
What behaviours we need from you:
As a Mx Manager, you are the heartbeat of the agency and your team at Havas. You will be a positive, motivated individual with an attitude and mindset to convey a can do attitude and continue to build out your media understanding and learning.

For your team, you will be critical in making sure your client’s business’s and, your team around you are supported taking an active role in delivering against:

• 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

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.
• Has a clear understanding of the steps within Havas Planning process and support the delivery of the overall strategy
• Become efficient in using relevant industry tool, for example, Telmar, Touchpoints, Ad Intel, Mediaplanner, YouGov
• Able to create channel briefs with support

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, and we have arrived at our Hybrid Working experiment which you will benefit from.
• 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

• 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 actio