Biddable Business Director; Luxury Brands

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ABOUT US - HAVAS MEDIA NETWORK:
Havas Media Network (HMN) employees over 950 people in the UK & Ireland. We work with clients to generate meaningful outcomes and are extremely proud of our proven track record for accelerating business growth and creating a meaningful difference. HMN spans London, Leeds, Manchester, and Edinburgh, servicing clients through our agency brands including Havas Media, Arena Media, Forward Media, Ledger Bennett, and Havas Market.

Across all agency brands, we have defined shared values that shape the way we work and define what we expect from our people:
Human at Heart:
You will respect, empower, and support others, fostering an inclusive workplace and creating meaningful experiences. Head for Rigour:
You will take pride in delivering high-quality, outcome-focused work and continually strive for improvement. Mind for Flair:
You will embrace diversity and bold thinking to craft brilliant, unique solutions. These behaviours are integral to our culture and essential for delivering impactful work for our clients and colleagues.

This is an exciting position as a Biddable Business Director within Havas Media Network, with a focus on our luxury brand portfolio. You’ll be working with some of our most prestigious clients, with a strong emphasis on agility and best in class media delivery, alongside Client, Data & Engineering and Product & Investment teams. Working with the Head of Paid Social and Head of Programmatic, you’ll support the development of an innovative proposition across the agency, leading a team of Paid Social and Programmatic specialists to roll out learning initiatives across the client teams and groups, as well as create best practice processes and behaviours.

You are expected to strategically design and lead Biddable products and implementation for clients and drive a truly integrated direction across biddable channels. You are also expected to work closely with Investment & Trading teams to deliver commercial and quality targets across all activities, ensuring that investment on behalf of our clients is commercially optimal with proprietary products and preferred partners.

You should be experienced in audience planning, implementation and measurement, and can comfortably and confidently talk about how to maintain the integrity of audience segmentations, from planning to buying. You should be a visionary leader, as well as to be fully committed to turn vision into practice, with a deep commercial and operational mindset. The role is perfect for someone who has demonstrated a solid leadership and management in the Paid Social and/or Programmatic industry, with an ambition to develop and use existing knowledge of all communication channels and how they work together within an integrated ecosystem.

You’ll be required to translate complex biddable solutions to our current and potential clients, to support commercial growth through organic opportunities with non-biddable clients and demonstrate our proposition as part of new business pitches.

• Client:
  Become our clients’ most trusted partner Proactively communicating and managing expectations of internal and external stakeholders, building sustainable relationships with the clients and client teams Driving, developing and evolving best-in-class client roadmaps and lead teams to manage them Able to lead the team to produce biddable strategies & supporting rationale with documents that demonstrate a high level of expertise and innovation Pro-active presentations to promote biddable capabilities both internally and externally
• Work:
  Deliver more meaningful outcomes Great track record in leading biddable planning and implementation and in challenging the status quo Significant media agency/planning & activation experience Passionate about media and the role an agency can play in the evolving communications mix Develop our biddable proposition by translating global solutions to the UK market, and creating new solutions that influence our global roadmap Develop a culture of sharing across our team & externally through award winning case studies
• Growth:
  Drive business growth & momentum Driving investment planning at platform & audience level, leveraging partnerships with technology vendors and publishers Pitch experience in communicating new and market leading biddable solutions to clients Actively seeking opportunities to maximise biddable…