Media Executive

Havas Media Group Spain SAU; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Mental health days

Parental benefits

Season ticket loan

Gym membership

Early Friday finishes

Job summary

Havas Media Group London is seeking a Planning Executive to support the Planning Director and Planning Manager in media planning and activation, translating strategy into actionable media experiences for clients.

You'll work in a hybrid model (3 days in office, 2 days WFH) across the London team, collaborating with internal and client teams, developing insights, and delivering timely, accurate planning.

Qualifications

• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Ability to analyse data and draw insights.
• Proficiency in MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) and Teams.
• Creative thinking to solve client challenges and improve processes.
• Excellent organisational skills and ability to manage multiple tasks.
• Collaborative team player with internal and client stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support Planning Director and Planning Manager in media planning and activation.
• Help translate strategy into a media experience for clients.
• Engage with internal teams and clients to ensure effective delivery.

Skills

Communication

Analytics

MS Office

Creative thinking

Organisational skills

Team collaboration

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Agency & Role Details

• Agency : Havas Media Group Job Description : Planning Executive
• Reporting to: Planning Manager / Planning Director
• Location: London (3x office days, 2x WFH days)

About Havas Media Network

Havas Media Network (HMN) employees over 950 people in the UK & Ireland. We are passionate about helping our clients create more Meaningful Brands through the creation and delivery of more valuable experiences. Our Havas mission: To make a meaningful difference to the brands, the businesses and the lives of the people we work with, and our core proposition is more human and delivering lasting impact. HMN UK spans London, Leeds, Manchester & Edinburgh, servicing our clients brilliantly through our agencies including Ledger Bennett, Havas Market, Havas Media, Arena Media, Forward Media, DMPG and Havas Play Network.

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 Planning Executive is a key role within the team, focused on supporting the Planning Director and Planning Manager to ensure the client has the optimal media support in place. Working alongside your Planning Manager, the role focuses on media planning and activation, specifically the point where the strategy is translated into a media experience for clients.

We are looking for someone who has a genuine interest in the industry and the following skills:

Key Skills

• Strong Communication: Effective written and verbal communication skills via email, Teams and in person. You will be expected to engage regularly with both internal colleagues and clients.
• Basic Analytical Skills: Ability to analyse data and draw insights.
• Tech-Savvy: Proficiency in MS Office, especially Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook (email) and Teams.
• Creative Thinking: Ability to think innovatively about solving client challenges and overcome setbacks in process.
• Organisational Skills: Strong ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines.
• Team Collaboration: Ability to work well within a team.

Behavioural Expectations

We want someone eager to learn as much as they can about media, clients and the agency. Someone curious, reliable and proactive. This role will allow you to build your foundational knowledge and skills so you can support the team, take on tasks with care, and grow your confidence every day.

The role will be assessed and appraised on how you:

• Actively seek to understand and listens to others' opinions and points of view
• Proactively engage with wider team to develop a holistic understanding of what we do, including within the wider Planning Executive community
• Understand the service commitments to stakeholders and take an active role in the partnership by attending meetings, taking notes & sharing knowledge, communicating insights
• Quickly raise problems with delivery of work to minimise impact on others
• Demonstrate an ability to identify, discuss and communicate better ways of working
• Proactively demonstrate that you care about the team in which you operate, hand-raising to get involved with tasks and help out where needed
• Can develop and deliver information in a clear and concise manner, tailored to the audience
• Produce work which is clear, accurate and grammatically correct
• Are able to express negative feelings constructively and your ability to receive feedback and build that into your day-to-day work
• Check your own understanding of others communication by seeking clarification, paraphrasing and asking questions
• Manage workload expectations and clearly communicate deadline delivery
• Establish good working relationships with internal (Havas) and external (client, media owner) teams, by understanding others priorities and needs
• Develop a good working and background understanding of the client's/stakeholder’s business/business area - understanding client category and competitor dynamics
• Have an appreciation of where Havas sits in relation to the wider industry

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. 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 #LI-NK1

Contract Type

Permanent

Equal Opportunity

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.

About Us

Founded in 1835 by Charles-Louis Havas, Havas is one of the world’s largest global communications groups, with more than 23,000 people in over 100 countries sharing one single mission: to make a meaningful difference to brands, businesses, and people. Havas has developed a fully integrated model covering all communications activities. The teams of the three business units, Creative, Media and Health & You, work together with agility and in perfect synergy to offer clients tailor‑made, meaningful, innovative and entertainment‑oriented solutions that support them in their positive transformation.

Life at Havas

We take great pride in our Havas family. They bring many unique personalities, perspectives and passions to their work. Collaboration is at the core of how we operate, and Havas Villages are the homes we work in. We encourage our people to take advantage of our many opportunities to learn and grow. Through local agency training sessions, our unique global and development programs, we offer our people endless opportunities to explore.

Havas Media Network

We create the best media experience, capitalizing on the most meaningful media to build more meaningful brands. We know how to connect a client with their target audience – in the context of where they are, through the content they pay attention to. We deliver this expertise through the Mx System, our global operating methodology and strategic planning process, that creates value for our clients by turning consumer intelligence into clear growth targets, aligning stakeholders and KPIs, and measuring the impact of media experiences.

Havas Creative Network

At Havas, we believe creativity isn’t just a description of our business, it is part of our agencies’ DNA. We bring together some of the industry’s most creative and accomplished agencies. By combining creative expertise with the strategic and innovative power of our Villages, we can build seamless teams around the individual needs of each of our clients.

Havas Health

Driven by human purpose and focused on the betterment of humanity through health, Havas Health & You leverages a global collection of experts and individuals to help people everywhere live healthier lives. With a spirit rooted in innovation, creativity, and education, we are dedicated to delivering consistent excellence and groundbreaking work.