AV Media Manager

About the Group

The world is obsessed by small start-ups or the largest corporates. Most UK media agencies are built to serve the top 100 spending clients, and there are a multitude of boutique agencies to serve those starting out in business. The Specialist Works is different. We are built exclusively for marketers at entrepreneurial brands. Businesses that are past the messy start-up stage but are worlds away from the slow-paced nature of large corporates.

Our clients span large privately owned businesses (often PE backed, founder-led or both) and small to mid-cap public enterprises. They are fighting larger, more established competitors and know they need to think and behave differently to win. They don’t conform to category norms. Since they can’t out-spend their competition, disruption is the safest move they can make.

The marketers leading these brands are innovative, resourceful, moving at pace and in all-out growth mode. They’re powerful; redefining categories, overtaking and acquiring traditional businesses and changing consumer behaviour along with it.

Our clients share three common yet exciting challenges which define everything we do as an agency:

• Consumer – customer acquisition is key to their success
• Company – they are highly ambitious and built lean
• Category – they are often outspent by their competitors, need to outmanoeuvre the competition and are passionate about disrupting an established category

Our AV Team is expanding, and we are looking for an AV Manager to join us, managing a team in planning, buying and running AV advertising campaigns on behalf of our wonderful, growing client base.

You’ll bring great account management skills, as well as experience in planning and buying AV campaigns, and will want to work with exciting clients with a brilliant, supportive team around you.

With the flexibility to follow the results and do what's working, you'll be able to plan and buy across all areas of AV (traditional linear spot, BVOD, CTV, radio and sponsorship), and across multiple markets.

• Overall delivery specialist lead for multiple accounts.
• The “go to” contact (internally & externally) for maintaining top class client service
• Organise and monitor workflow of the account team, ensuring they have a manageable workload.
• Work in close partnership with the AV Director to ensure alignment on campaign delivery and quality standards.
• Provide regular, proactive updates to AV Director on key campaign milestones, client forecasts, team progress, and any emerging risks or opportunities.
• Have overall responsibility for account performance, growth, and financials.
• Lead plan creation for multiple accounts.
• Oversee & manage a team of AV buyers, ensuring top class campaign quality.
• On ad hoc basis, produce reports, plans, etc for new business/pitches when required.
• Prepare for, and attend, client and supplier meetings when required.
• Confidently discuss potential cross sell of other TSW channels and identify new opportunities.
• Confidently collate information and update the wider team on client developments.
• Oversee media owner/supplier relationships.

• Experience in planning and buying TV/AV campaigns in UK market
• Comfortable presenting ideas/strategies to clients
• Proficient in at least one TV buying/reporting tool (i.e DDS)
• Management/mentoring experience
• Comfortable with processing and interpreting data
• Microsoft Office Package with emphasis on PowerPoint and Excel
• Highly numerate with the ability to work diligently with numbers and data

• A minimum of 3 days per week in the office
• May require some travel to meet with clients or attend industry events on an ad‑hoc basis.

We provide an exciting, fast paced, people first environment that allows everyone to grow, learn and thrive.

We work a 9-day fortnight, meaning staff have every other Friday off!

We offer all our employees share options, and we’ve built a benefits package that invests in our employees’ long‑term personal and professional growth and wellbeing.

• Passion: You share your excitement about what drives you
• Inquisitiveness: Ask “what’s possible?”. Ask “why not?”
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