Hybrid Agency : Havas Media Job Description Summary : The Role This is an exciting position within Paid Social for an Account Director, working on one of Havas Media’s top tier client. As part of the role, you’ll be feeding into two well-established and dynamic teams – your direct team in which you’re supported with Paid Social specialists across all levels. Job Description : Paid Social Director Office Location: HKX Building, 3 Pancras Square, Kings Cross About Havas Media Network Havas Media Network is part of the sixth largest advertising network in the world. We are headquartered out of St Pancras, London, and along with offices in Leeds, Manchester and Edinburgh, we operate globally. Our CEO is Patrick (‘Paddy’) Affleck. Our overarching mission is to make a meaningful difference to the brands, businesses, and lives of the people we work with. Our solution is simple: we identify and create meaningful media experiences to deliver meaningful growth for our clients. In the last two years, we’ve undergone a transformation that’s seen us bind together nine agencies into three core agency brands and propositions: Havas Media - through which we deliver meaningful outcomes through meaningful media Havas Market - through which we help clients build meaningful retail experiences Havas Entertainment - through which we help clients create meaningful moments in culture In 2022, we’ve strengthened group-wide capabilities and expertise to match clients’ needs to unlock emerging growth opportunities in the ‘new economy’. Our acquisitions of leading agencies Search Laboratory, additive and Expert Edge are helping turbocharge our capabilities in search, DCO and ecommerce – with more to come. We also launched a dedicated B2B division, Havas Business, to help clients seize on the huge opportunity of B2B marketing for clients. We successfully won 16 new clients and retained a further 5, including BBC, Matalan, British Red Cross, Bumble, Bethesda and Dr Marten. We have also recently won a number of industry awards, Beer and Pub Association IPA Effectiveness Silver, BBC Outdoor Media awards Brand Building (Gold), Domino’s Outdoor Media awards Cross Format (Gold), Maersk Grand Prix for Effectiveness with WARC and Kia, Best Use of Search in the UK Search awards. We are also extremely proud of our Campaign’s Sustainability Agency Best Practice win and we are soon to be B Corp certified. Above are some of the reasons why we’re on Campaign’s ‘ Best Place to Work ’ list each year and our Talent team has been awarded the IPA Gold CPD Accreditation. But we’re more than just great work and awards. Havas Media Group is a place where you can make things happen by pursuing your professional and personal dreams. As such, we’ve also launched the ‘Meaningfully Daring Side Hustle’ programme, while Havas Boost announced its first investment into STEM educational toys business, Ambessa Play. The Team Our paid social media team consists of over 45 experts – a team of executives, managers, account- and business directors. We’re a highly motivated, energetic team with a passion for all things social. We like great ideas combined with smart planning and a relentless commitment to results. We’re constantly innovating for our clients, working with all the key platforms in the latest formats to reach audiences in interesting ways. The Role This is an exciting position within Paid Social for an Account Director, working on one of Havas Media’s top tier client. As part of the role, you’ll be feeding into two well-established and dynamic teams – your direct team in which you’re supported with Paid Social specialists across all levels. Your focus will be to lead on campaign responses, build relationships to the client team and client by directing on the day to day deliverables of your team as well as delivering and keeping the finance and monthly reconciliation in order. Your team will consist of one dedicated Manager and one dedicated Executive. You will report into the Paid Social Business Director. As part of the role and with your team, you’ll be expected to manage key pieces of business, providing a superior service and deliver innovative paid social solutions. Working with your Manager, you will apply your knowledge of paid social to identify the most appropriate formats, targeting and platforms to help achieve business outcomes. Furthermore, you will be responsible in driving positive brand and performance results through an unrivalled understanding of social channels and how consumers use them. Key Responsibilities: Direct the Paid Social media activity Line manage members of the team and ensure ongoing training and development Work directly and closely with clients to develop plans, manage issues and maintain positive relationships Manage internal and external stakeholders and strong ability to prioritize work and be communicative and upright when workload seems unachievable Ensure client work is of high quality, delivered to brief, deadline, budget and submitted to awards Own the relationship with key partners (e.g. Facebook) and ensure quality execution across the team Brings innovative, inspiring, and potentially award-winning thinking to the team and client Helps evangelize the clients around key topics, especially our offering and the future of social media When asked, participates in new business opportunities to drive new revenue Client strategy and planning: Helps lead and execute on the annual client strategy and planning to ensure the best work Utilises our tech partners and tools to provide data and insight to all client strategy and planning as well as to ensure smart and consistent measurement and delivery Challenge client with innovative thinking and formats Client management: Develops and maintains relationships with clients to ensure work is on brief, delivering KPIs and metrics, to deadline and budget Pushes clients to take on broader Social services as well as try new and innovative campaign ideas through a deep, trusted relationship built on strong consultancy and mutual respect Addresses and manages client challenges and ensures clients are providing clear briefs, budgets and KPIs and provides reasonable timeframes to deliver proposals, plans and work Helps surprise and delight clients with new ideas, partners, and ways to work with HMG People management: Line manage two team members, ensuring regular meetings, clear objectives, identifying training and development requirements and ongoing career progression New business: Assists the new business lead occasionally on new business pitches or proposals for incumbent media clients Who we’re looking for: Experience in setting up Facebook and Instagram campaigns essential. We also work across Snapchat, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest and TikTok. Self-starter with proactive attitude to work. Enjoys working independently and as part of a team. Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment. A minimum of 3 years' experience in Paid Social, ideally in media agencies. Proven knowledge of and expertise in creating social media plans, paid activation, optimisation, and reporting. Clear communication skills with a strong ability to present ideas with conviction and gravitas. Experience of managing expectations of client team and client. 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 and we have arrived at our Hybrid Working experiment which you will benefit from. 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, from a Havas pension scheme, season ticket loan and free mortgage advice to retail discounts with Havas Perks and Health Insurance, we have you covered and much more LI-NK1 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.