AV Executive

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    

Role Overview: 

We are looking for an AV Executive to join our broadcast team, working alongside the AV Manager in planning, buying and running TV advertising campaigns on behalf of our clients. 

The AV (Audio Visual) team at The Specialist Works plans and buys across all areas of AV (traditional linear spot, BVOD, Radio, CTV and sponsorship).

You'll be joining a talented team, where career development is key, at an exciting time in our growth. You'll already have around a year's experience (maybe even a little more!) probably in an entry level AV or media planning/buying role so you'll know all the lingo, know about media buying processes and you've had a bit of experience working with clients/suppliers/media owners. 

Location: London/Bristol 

Requirements

What you'll be doing: 

• Working independently, you'll own the day to day co-ordination and administration of a number of accounts 

• Supporting the AV Manager by creating advertising plans and daily advertising schedules, and any other relevant tasks 

• Attending client and supplier meetings 

• Actively enhancing your knowledge of the TV marketplace, and other media channels 

• Being the primary point of contact for all internal and external parties in relation to your accounts 

• Be aware and responsible for clients spend versus available credit and pre-payments. 

• Running daily reports of live advertising campaigns to create ad-hoc, mid or post advertising campaign analysis reports, analyse and present findings to clients. 

• Building and maintaining media owner/supplier/client relationships - we pride ourselves on these as an agency, so the bar is set high! 

• Negotiating with media owners and sales houses to protect trading rates and service levels 

• Manage reconciliation (agreeing and monitoring value positions) with TV Sales Houses 

• You'll have at least 12 months' experience of planning and buying in one or more media channel. This will mean you have a great understanding of media terminology and concepts, have experience of media buying processes and client service, will be used to multi-tasking across multiple projects in a fast paced environment, and be a great team player. 

• You'll have a pro-active approach in growing your clients' spend and sourcing new opportunities 

• Experience of working with external stakeholders to deliver multiple projects 

• Experience in systems such as Media Ocean, Techedge, and accounting software. Additionally you will be confident in your use of Microsoft Excel, Outlook & Powerpoint. 

• We provide an exciting, fast paced, people first environment that allows everyone to grow, learn and thrive. We encourage a flexible way of working to adapt to personal circumstances, individual, and business needs.

• 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.

Benefits

Our Values 

• Passion: You share your excitement about what drives you 

• Inquisitiveness: Ask "what's possible?". Ask "why not?". 

• Caring: Be a good professional, a good colleague and a good human. 

• Knowledge: Know plenty. Share it. Learn more. 

And we live them every day #IamPICK 

Sound good to you? Then get in touch. We don’t bite. 

At The What's Possible Group our culture, our creativity and our passion is powered by people. People just like you. Diversity and difference drive innovation, not only for us but also for our clients and is at the heart of everything that we do. 

The What's Possible Group is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all, regardless of race, gender, disability, religion, sexual orientation or age as we seek to recruit the very best at The What's Possible Group from a diverse talent pool. If you require flexible working options please still get in touch and we’ll be as accommodating as we can.