Account Executive

Agency : Havas Media Group

Job Description Summary : 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 is to work on/across JDE (Jacobs Douwe and Egberts (coffee brands) & EDF Energy.

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 is to work on/across JDE (Jacobs Douwe and Egberts (coffee brands) & EDF Energy.

Jacobs Douwe Egberts (JDE) is a leading pure-play coffee and tea company, selling their products in more than 100 countries globally. In the UK, Havas Media supports 3 of their well-known coffee brands; Kenco, L’OR and Tassimo. Kenco reached its 100-year anniversary in 2023 and remains in a strong category position across the instant coffee range. L’OR launched their first ever coffee machine (L’OR Barista) and is going from strength to strength while challenging the more established Nespresso. We expect 2025 to bring lots of opportunity and positive challenges. We are looking for someone who wants to join the team and help us further grow the strong client relationships we’ve built over the past 4 years.

EDF Energy is the UK’s largest generator of zero-carbon electricity, focused on developing domestic wind, nuclear, and solar energy to decrease dependence on imports and mitigate future price increases. Havas Media manages EDF’s media campaigns, highlighting the company’s commitment to net-zero and its value to current and prospective customers. As we approach 2025, an exciting year for EDF, we are seeking someone to support our team in creating standout campaigns that differentiate us from competitors in advertising and partnerships. This role involves assisting with daily planning tasks that contribute to campaigns showcasing EDF’s innovative products, including energy solutions, electric vehicles, solar panels, and heat pumps. Together with Havas Media, EDF is transforming the energy market towards a greener future.

What behaviours we need from you:

• 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:

• 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 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 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!

Contract Type : Permanent

Equal Opportunity Statement: 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.