International Account Executive - F/H

International Account Executive

Havas International is looking for its next International Account Executive on a permanent basis ASAP. Join us! For internal employees, feel free to apply as part of a mobility or share with others as part of our referral program.

We are looking for our future Account Executive to join the team in charge of large international global accounts, communicating in France and internationally, on digital and offline.

With a first experience in media, the future Account Executive's mission is to coordinate local teams around client expectations, plan, and report the media activity of digital and offline campaigns for its clients, under the supervision of its Manager within the Luxury, Fashion, and Beauty Business Unit.

Havas International is the international hub of Havas Media, one of the largest communication groups in the world. In charge of the management, coordination, and implementation of media campaigns for large global advertisers such as Hermès, Michelin, Lactalis, Meetic, the European Parliament, Capgemini, PayPal, Atout France, Orange, Carrefour, BNPP.

This department is also and especially 100 employees from around the world, all driven by this common passion for international communication.

An agile and human-sized entity that juggles between client relations, consulting, strategy of means, coordination, and implementation across all media, whether offline or digital.

MISSION & RESPONSIBILITIES

MISSIONS

Coordination

• Contribute to the supervision and coordination of local agencies
• Stay informed of local news, major campaigns, and market-related events around clients
• Communicate important information to local agencies, global projects, and key deadlines
• Harmonize the working methods and deliverables of local agencies

Strategy

• Contribute to the writing and presentation of annual strategies, recommendations, media guidelines
• Ensure the quality of operational follow-up while respecting deadlines
• Control the respect of guidelines in the deliverables provided by local teams
• Challenge their feedback and ensure the consistency of the strategy and recommendations

Commercial

• Participate in the establishment of meeting reports
• Participate in regular meetings with the central client and contribute to the follow-up of action items (worklists)
• Ensure client satisfaction on the delivery and performance of campaigns

Operational

• Establish the media plans of centrally purchased campaigns
• Implement operational management processes (invoicing, validation of quotes, and dispute follow-up)
• Control and encourage the use by local agencies of the agency's tools (client space, Dashboard)
• Contribute to the analysis of competitors' media strategies and investments

Management

• Coordinate and manage the teams of the BU (Expertise, Insights, Content consultants) to provide clients with effective and useful media strategy recommendations and operations

EXPERIENCE

• 1 year of experience in a media agency, ideally in a consulting or buying service
• Digital expertise is a plus

SKILLS

• Excel and PowerPoint are our working tools, a good general level is required for this position
• Good knowledge of marketing/media concepts
• Organization, rigor, attention to detail
• Ability to handle numbers
• Interpersonal skills, empathy
• Commercial sense, autonomy, perseverance
• Proactivity, reactivity, availability
• Expertise and interest in Luxury

Language: English (Good level), French

Contract Type: Permanent

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