Account Director

Bauer Media Group Heinrich Bauer Verlag KG; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holiday + bank holidays + 2vol

Bauer Academy access

Enhanced parental leave

Flexible working

Volunteer days

Job summary

Bauer Media Advertising is seeking an Audio Account Director on a 12-month fixed-term contract to drive airtime and creative partnership revenues across Omnicom hub agencies. You will work with Commercial Director and Creative Strategists to execute customer strategies and creative processes.

You will evangelise Bauer’s audio proposition, build pitches, and cultivate agency relationships to secure premium sponsorships and expand brand reach within the hub networks.

Qualifications

• Experience working with network media agencies at a mid level with strong contacts.
• Genuine knowledge of audio, Bauer’s brands, and ability to sell a portfolio of stations.
• Strong understanding of the broader media marketplace including broadcast and digital.
• Experience in creating, pitching, and landing big ticket sponsorship and partnership deals.
• Strong understanding of agency trading deals and trading mechanics.

Responsibilities

• Deliver market beating share of airtime and creative revenues by understanding agency motivations and client cycles.
• Develop new business and retain existing business across display and creative through a proactive agenda.
• Drive brand count across the agency territory and improve conversion of creative pitches.
• Evangelise audio, Bauer’s proposition and position brands through engagement with hub agencies and clients.
• Ensure profile and traction with hub agencies is consistently high quality.
• Communicate new developments clearly to all stakeholders.
• Interrogate partnership briefs to inform responses effectively.
• Gather agency insights to deliver best-in-class creative solutions.
• Collaborate with Creative Strategy to build compelling pitch presentations with customized solutions.

Skills

Audio advertising

Agency relationships

Media marketplace knowledge

Sponsorship deals

Trading deals understanding

Job description

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You will be joining our commercial advertising team. At Bauer Media Advertising ‘Together We Create Impact’, meaning thatevery part of the commercial team is focused on creating impact for our customers by leveraging our brands and platforms to deliver against their objectives.

The Difference you will make

As an Audio Account Director (12 month FTC), you will be focused on OMD and PHD, and sit within the Omnicom Media Hub team. You will have equal responsibility for driving airtime and creative partnership revenues.

Working closely with the Commercial Director, Audio Group Head, Group Client Leads and Creative Strategists aligned to the hub, you will ensure that the Customer Strategies and Creative Process are implemented effectively.

Your role

• Deliver market beating share of airtime and creative revenues by fully understanding agency motivations, and priorities and client planning cycles.
• Through a focused proactive agenda informed by the Customer Strategies, develop new business and retain existing business across display and creative.
• Drive brand count across the agency territory and improve our conversion rate of creative pitches.
• Evangelise audio, Bauer’s proposition and position our brands and audiences through engagement pieces within the hub agencies and with key clients.
• Ensure that our profile and traction with hub agencies is consistent and high quality.
• are regularly presented and clearly understood with all new developments communicated.
• Ensure full interrogation and understanding of partnership briefs to successfully inform our response.
• Gather insight from agency to deliver best in class creative solutions.
• In collaboration with the Creative Strategy team build compelling pitch presentations offering custom partnership solutions to agencies and clients.

The Skills you will bring

• Experience of working with network media agencies at a mid-level with strong contacts across media agencies.
• Genuine knowledge of and passion for audio, our brands, and the ability to sell a portfolio of stations.
• Strong understanding of the broader media marketplace particularly broadcast and digital.
• Experience of creating, pitching, and landing big ticket sponsorship and partnership deals.
• Strong understanding of agency trading deals and trading mechanics.

Working Pattern/Location

This is a 12 month fixed term contract, Monday – Friday, 9am – 5.30pm with flexible working hours. We also offer a hybrid way of working that supports a balance of working from home and our office in London (5 minutes’ walk from Euston Station)

About Bauer Media Group

We are a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe. Our offering extends from print and online publishing to audio broadcasting and entertainment, alongside investments in other media related sectors. With more than 500 million copies sold each year, we are one of Europe’s largest Publishers. From women’s and celebrities’ magazines to TV listings to food and special interest, we own some of the most popular publishing brands in Germany, UK, Poland and France – both digital and print. But not only that. Reaching over 61 million listeners weekly, we operate over 150 radio and podcast brands in nine countries, spanning the UK, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Portugal. Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer Media focuses on the long-term, with a consumer-first mindset that guides us across our diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 12,000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people‘s everyday lives.

What’s in it for you

• You’ll have 28 days holiday, bank holidays & 2 volunteer days to use.
• Your development matters, so access to our internal training provider – Bauer Academy, is a huge win.
• We have enhanced Maternity/Adoption, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave Pay.
• You’ll have the opportunity for flexible working.
• And much more! Find the full details of our benefits here

We are an international employer and equal opportunities are important to us. That's why we welcome everyone in their uniqueness, regardless of e.g. religion, gender, skin color, disability in our house.

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Date Job Posting Last Updated: 2 Sept 2026