Manager

Havas Group; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media agency in Manchester is seeking an MX Manager to enhance media planning and support advertising campaigns for major clients, including the BBC. This hybrid position involves managing multiple tasks, coordinating workflows, and driving campaign success while training junior team members. The ideal candidate will possess strong media planning skills, excellent communication abilities, and a proactive attitude. This permanent role offers great opportunities for professional development in a supportive team environment.

Qualifications

• Understanding of media planning and activation processes.
• Ability to analyze campaign performance data.
• Experience in managing multiple tasks effectively.

Responsibilities

• Support media planning, activation, and campaign delivery.
• Coordinate workflows and timelines for campaigns.
• Communicate across client and internal teams.
• Manage relationships with media owners and internal teams.

Skills

Media planning

Campaign delivery

Data literacy

Communication

Job description

Agency :

Havas Media Group

Job Description :

MX Manager
Manchester
Hybrid

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.

HMN UK spans London, Leeds, Manchester & Edinburgh, servicing our clients brilliantly through our agencies including Ledger Bennett, Havas Market, Havas Media, Arena 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.

The MX Client Planning Manager is focused on helping MX Account Directors to ensure clients have the optimal media support in place. Working directly alongside your MX Director, the role is centred around supporting the media planning process and managing the activation of advertising campaigns in various media channels like TV, radio, online, and social media.

The Role

Be the engine of the team’s delivery! Turn learning into action; you know the basics and now you’re making things happen. Own your part of the process, support junior team members, and keep things running smoothly! Step up, communicate, and help turn plans into reality while still building your expertise.

This role is to work across the BBC account, within the Client Planning team. The account is fast-paced, spanning across a range of BBC brands – the right candidate will be able to manage multiple tasks at once and thrive in a busy environment.

The account offers great opportunity to plan and manage omni-channel campaigns, across a range of BBC properties – think everything from BBC iPlayer’s The Traitors, through to CBeebies Parenting!

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 a can-do attitude and you’ll be continuing to build out your media understanding and learning.

Core Responsibilities:

• Support the MX Associate Director and Account Executive in day-to-day media planning, activation, and campaign delivery
• Coordinate and manage campaign workflows and timelines to ensure smooth delivery
• Own and manage relationships with key media owners and internal teams
• Ensure campaign billing, booking and reconciliation processes are accurate and timely
• Train and coach Executives, helping to develop their skills and supporting them to understand media fundamentals
• Communication responsibilities, both written and oral, across both client and internal teams
• Responsibility for quality and accuracy of all deliveries

Key Goals and Objectives:

• Consistently deliver client work to brief, on time, and with high accuracy
• Contribute towards daily-weekly-monthly goals through supporting other team members
• Take responsibility for quality control across all outputsContribute towards department growth by mentoring and supporting juniors
• Technical Skills & Competencies:
• Good understanding of media planning and activation processes
• Able to use key industry and agency tools
• Ability to brief and manage financial processes
• Data literacy – can analyse and communicate campaign performance

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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.