Job Description Summary :Havas London is Havas UK’s flagship creative agency. Our mission is to make a meaningful difference to brands, businesses and people.
We’re the only major UK advertising agency to share a single building with every other specialist business in our network, all under a single P&L. Sitting within the Havas Village in King’s Cross affords us some clear advantages; none more so than our ability to build bespoke, multi-discipline teams around our clients, whatever their business need.
These are not teams that are together on paper alone, but teams physically, culturally, logistically and financially aligned. This set-up allows us to complement – not replicate – our specialisms.
Job Description :We exist to make a meaningful difference in the real world with ideas that make everyone grow well. We create big, noisy, populist work that makes a dent in culture, and we’re proud of doing our best work for our biggest clients, while doing the best for people, planet, and profit.
Havas London is looking for a stellar Senior Account Manager to work across a couple of really exciting accounts.
SENIOR ACCOUNT MANAGER- Effectively develops strong relationships within the team and cross-functional departments.
- Actively builds connections with key stakeholders and understands their motivations.
- Knows how best to involve stakeholders in the project.
- Can effectively manage junior-mid clients and push back where necessary, pushing the agency agenda.
- Leads on 360 annual reviews for the team they line manage.
- Driving force on a project, leading on next steps, actions, overarching timings, etc.
- Seen by the client as the day-to-day lead on the project.
- Sees issues early and can identify when a process needs to be re-set.
- Pushing creativity for accounts and ensuring every brief/project meets and pushes past the clients' needs.
STRATEGIC SMARTS- Knows the client’s business better than they do and cares about it.
- Short to medium term plan to achieve an outcome.
- More active role working with account strategists on projects.
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT- Run your account commercials like it was your own business.
- Understands and identifies levers of profitability.
- Understand the KPIs clients and agencies use to measure commercial success.
- Able to demonstrate how to scope a project.
- Find new opportunities to bring revenue.
CREATIVITY- More of an active role in presenting work to clients.
- More active role discussing the work with clients and inspiring them to buy the best work.
- Protect an idea from start to finish, escalating where necessary.
- Facilitate and champion the best working conditions to make great work happen.
- Create a safe space on the account for Creative to provide innovation, inspiring ideas that push the brief.
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.