Account Director

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You will be joining our commercial advertising team. At Bauer Media Advertising ‘Together We Create Impact’, meaning thatevery part of the commercial team is focused on creating impact for our customers by leveraging our brands and platforms to deliver against their objectives.

As an Audio Account Director (12 month FTC), you will be focused on OMD and PHD, and sit within the Omnicom Media Hub team. You will have equal responsibility for driving airtime and creative partnership revenues.

Working closely with the Commercial Director, Audio Group Head, Group Client Leads and Creative Strategists aligned to the hub, you will ensure that the Customer Strategies and Creative Process are implemented effectively.

• Deliver market beating share of airtime and creative revenues by fully understanding agency motivations, and priorities and client planning cycles.
• Through a focused proactive agenda informed by the Customer Strategies, develop new business and retain existing business across display and creative.
• Drive brand count across the agency territory and improve our conversion rate of creative pitches.
• Evangelise audio, Bauer’s proposition and position our brands and audiences through engagement pieces within the hub agencies and with key clients.
• Ensure that our profile and traction with hub agencies is consistent and high quality.
• are regularly presented and clearly understood with all new developments communicated.
• Ensure full interrogation and understanding of partnership briefs to successfully inform our response.
• Gather insight from agency to deliver best in class creative solutions.
• In collaboration with the Creative Strategy team build compelling pitch presentations offering custom partnership solutions to agencies and clients.

• Experience of working with network media agencies at a mid-level with strong contacts across media agencies.
• Genuine knowledge of and passion for audio, our brands, and the ability to sell a portfolio of stations.
• Strong understanding of the broader media marketplace particularly broadcast and digital.
• Experience of creating, pitching, and landing big ticket sponsorship and partnership deals.
• Strong understanding of agency trading deals and trading mechanics.

This is a 12 month fixed term contract, Monday – Friday, 9am – 5.30pm with flexible working hours. We also offer a hybrid way of working that supports a balance of working from home and our office in London (5 minutes’ walk from Euston Station)

We are a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe. Our offering extends from print and online publishing to audio broadcasting and entertainment, alongside investments in other media related sectors. With more than 500 million copies sold each year, we are one of Europe’s largest Publishers. From women’s and celebrities’ magazines to TV listings to food and special interest, we own some of the most popular publishing brands in Germany, UK, Poland and France – both digital and print.

But not only that. Reaching over 61 million listeners weekly, we operate over 150 radio and podcast brands in nine countries, spanning the UK, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Portugal. Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer Media focuses on the long-term, with a consumer-first mindset that guides us across our diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 12,000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people‘s everyday lives.

• You’ll have 28 days holiday, bank holidays & 2 volunteer days to use.
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