Account Executive

HAVAS; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading creative media agency based in the UK is seeking an Account Executive to support campaign planning and implementation. The ideal candidate should possess strong organizational skills, excel in managing multiple deadlines, and have analytical capabilities. This role offers hybrid working with office hours from 9:15 am to 5:30 pm, providing extensive opportunities for learning and growth within a fast-paced team environment.

Benefits

25 days holiday per annum

4 days mental health allowance

Full training provided

Qualifications

• Experience in managing campaign planning and activation.
• Familiarity with media development and innovations.
• Ability to update and maintain campaign trackers and reports.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate campaign briefings and updates.
• Lead campaign implementation and troubleshoot issues.
• Ensure client requirements are delivered on time.

Skills

Organisational skills

Strong Excel capabilities

Analytical mind

Ability to prioritise multiple deadlines

Job description

Agency

Havas Media

Job Description

The primary focus of the Account Executive role is to support your team by ensuring that all internal processes are correctly adhered to. This role is the backbone of the team with a heavy focus on campaign planning and activation tasks, therefore organisational skills, strong excel capabilities, an analytical mind and an ability to prioritise multiple deadlines are essential.

Arena Media

We’re a dedicated full service creative media agency who aim to catapult brands with a challenger mindset into the stratosphere.

We want to collaborate with brands who want to make an impact in culture.

We partner with brands that aim to create, disrupt, innovate and challenge the status quo, whether they are market leaders, new entrants or thought leaders.

Client

HARMAN is a global leader in connected car technology, lifestyle audio innovations, professional audio and lighting solutions, and digital transformation. Brands within the Harman portfolio include JBL, Harman Kardon, AKG and Arcam.

We manage Harman’s EMEA multi-market campaigns, operating across 12 markets, which can be briefed by local, EMEA or global markets. Our focus is on the strategy, planning and implementation of both upper and lower funnel activity, designed to raise awareness and drive consideration of the brand in‑market, flexing according to market stage and local market nuances. Working with the client as a central function across all their campaign launches, means that multiple campaigns can be briefed into the team at any one time.

Account Executive

Key elements of this role include:

• Co-ordination of campaign briefings, responses and campaign trackers
• Keeping abreast of current media development and innovations
• Updating of relevant documents to ensure all stakeholders are clear on current status and next steps
• Reactively adapting and updating excel based media plans based on client feedback (budget changes, live dates, overview tabs etc)
• Leading campaign implementation, QA’ing and troubleshooting, with the support of your Account Manager
• Working alongside ad ops on campaign tagging and reporting requirements
• Collating and QA’ing reporting data to adhere to client templates
• Ensuring all standard client requirements are delivered correctly and on time (screenshot decks, status documents, spend pacing trackers etc.)
• Ensuring all finance documents are correctly completed (reconciliations, invoicing, finance trackers etc)

Reporting directly to an Account Manager and working alongside an Account Director, you will also sit within a much wider team which comprises a Managing Partner, Client Partner, Business Director and multiple Account Directors, Managers and Executives. It’s a fast‑paced team, with endless opportunities to learn, develop and thrive!

Other Information

• Office hours are 9.15am – 5.30pm Monday to Friday.
• 25 days holiday per annum.
• 4 days mental health allowance (1 per quarter)
• Full training will be provided once evaluation of skill set has been undertaken.
• Hybrid Working (3 days a week in the office)

Contract Type

Permanent

Equal Opportunity Employer

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.