Media Executive London 2024

 The Media Executive is a key role within the team, focused on supporting the MX Associate Director and MX Manager to ensure the client has the optimal media support in place.  Working alongside your Mx Manager, the role focuses on media planning and activation, specifically the point where the strategy is translated into a Media Experience (Mx) for clients.

This role will be in the Luxury Client team with DeBeers, Hermès International and Dolce and Gabbana as anchor clients. The scope of the work is international, but the role is based in the UK.  We operate a hybrid global-local model, and you would be expected to liaise with multiple local planning teams in order to achieve alignment to the global strategy.

The Role

The Media Executive is a key role within the team, focused on supporting the MX Associate Director and MX Manager to ensure the client has the optimal media support in place.  Working alongside your Mx Manager, the role focuses on media planning and activation, specifically the point where the strategy is translated into a Media Experience (Mx) for clients.

This role will be in the Luxury Client team with DeBeers, Hermès International and Dolce and Gabbana as anchor clients. The scope of the work is international, but the role is based in the UK.  We operate a hybrid global-local model, and you would be expected to liaise with multiple local planning teams in order to achieve alignment to the global strategy.

• DeBeers will be a lead client; De Beers is an international company that specializes in diamond and jewellery retail, diamond trading and manufacturing.  At the end of last year DeBeers launched their new brand campaign, the first for some time, across the Global featuring Lupita Nyong’o as its first Global Ambassador. The Academy Award-winning actor starred in the new brand campaign, De Beers: Where It Begins, which tells the story of the only global luxury brand that starts at the source.  Active in UK, France, China, Hong Kong/Taiwan, USA
• Hermès International sometimes also referred to as Hermès of Paris or Hermes, is the French luxury goods manufacturer. It has been consistently ranked as the world's most valuable luxury brand.  It is an iconic brand selling leather goods, lifestyle accessories, furniture, fragrances, watches, jewellery, ready-to-wear and saddlery.  We work with the brand across different markets, but the remit will be specifically UK for this role.
• D&G is an Italian luxury fashion house founded in 1985 by Italian designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana.  The house specializes in clothing ready to wear, handbags, accessories, and cosmetics.  We work with our Italian Havas counterparts, planning and activating all Audio Visual media.

What behaviours we need from you

This may very well be your first role in media, so we are looking for someone who has a genuine interest in the industry and keen to learn by:

• Demonstrating curiosity and take advantage of learning opportunities internally and externally
• Working with your line manager to set clear self-development expectations
• Being able to receive constructive feedback and build that into their day-to-day work
• Sharing knowledge and learning with other Executives
• Recognising and accepting mistakes that sit within their remit and contribute to putting things right

Role competencies

The role will be assessed and appraised on how you:

• Actively seeks to understand and listens to others' opinions and points of view
• Proactively engages with the wider team to develop a holistic understanding of what we do for our clients
• Understands the service commitments to stakeholders and takes an active role in the partnership by attending meetings, taking notes & sharing knowledge, communicating insights etc
• Quickly raises problems with delivery of work to minimise impact on others
• Demonstrates an ability to identify, discuss and communicate better ways of working with colleagues, to help
• Proactively demonstrates that they care about the team in which they operate, hand-raising to get involved with tasks and help out where needed
• Can develop and deliver information in a clear and concise manner that is tailored to the audience
• Produces work which is clear, accurate and grammatically correct
• Can efficiently and accurately notify relevant stakeholders when they've completed work they've produced and how this will impact on them.
• Is able to express negative feelings constructively
• Checks own understanding of others communication by seeking clarification, paraphrasing and asking questions

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. 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!