Junior 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  

The Department:

The AV (Audio Visual) department is the broadcast planning and buying team. We are responsible for planning, negotiating and delivering bespoke video plans for our clients across a range of suppliers and markets.

The AV team offer clients a unique combination of high service levels, international exposure and market leading analysis, which has helped bring about sustained fast revenue growth.

The Role:

As a Junior AV Executive, you'll be joining our vibrant Audio-Visual (AV) team, which focuses on TV, radio, and digital video media. This is an entry-level position designed for a school leaver, college leaver, or someone looking to kickstart their career in media. You’ll get hands-on experience, learn from industry experts, and become a key player in our success story. No prior experience is necessary – just a desire to learn, a great attitude, and a love for media

Location: London/Bristol/hybrid

Requirements

What you’ll be doing:

• Supporting the team in the creation of advertising plans and daily advertising schedules to build your knowledge of the TV (and media) marketplace
• Supporting the team as an administration superstar to increase day to day output
• Being the primary point of contact for basic advertising schedule amends/applied optimization as we are constantly making improvements for our clients
• Running daily reports of live advertising campaigns contributing to ad-hoc, mid or post advertising campaign analysis reports. This will involve adhering to rigorous processes with the greatest attention to detail which will result in assisting the delivery team in schedule creation, processing and improvement
• Building and maintaining media owner/supplier/client relationships - we pride ourselves on these as an agency, so the bar is set high!
• Assisting in reconciliation (agreeing and monitoring value positions) with TV Sales Houses
• You will champion your own development through regular training sessions, on job learning, and personal objectives set by you
• You will do all the above while demonstrating the ability to be friendly, yet assertive, when working with other team members, suppliers and clients in order to complete work to our required standard

Key Deliverables :

What will this role deliver in 6, 9, 12 months?

• Being proficient with key campaign management and reporting tools
• Identifying problems/threats and escalating to management if necessary
• Good relationships being formed with Media Owners/Suppliers
• The ability to build a TV spot schedule to client specifications/needs
• Working more independently and ‘owning’ the clients you work on in terms of the day to day management

Technical requirements:

• Microsoft Office Package with emphasis on PowerPoint and Excel
• Highly numerate with the ability to work diligently with numbers and data
• Communication and presentation skills (written & oral)

Experience:

• Comfortable with multi-tasking
• Understanding of the role media planning agencies provide for their clients
• Any media-agency or marketing industry experience would be beneficial
• Experience of working with external stakeholders to deliver multiple projects
• Exposure to a fast paced, proactive environment

• Experience in a client/customer facing role

Benefits

Working Conditions:

· 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.

Benefits

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.

Our Values

o Passion: You share your excitement about what drives you

o Inquisitiveness: Ask “what’s possible?”. Ask “why not?”

o Caring: Be a good professional, a good colleague and a good human

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

And we live them every day #IamPICK

Social and Environmental Commitment

At What’s Possible Group, our mission is to build a group our people are proud of. Proud of what we deliver to clients. Proud of how we treat each other. Proud of our commitment to people, planet and profit.

Having rolled out a What’s Possible University with learning modules & policies, including anti bribery & corruption, DE&I and code of ethics, our people have continuous personal development, and the group is continuously improving. 

We are dedicated to embedding social and environmental responsibility into every aspect of our business. You'll contribute to initiatives that promote social equity, diversity, and inclusion within our workplace and in the content, we create, whilst actively supporting and promoting sustainable best practice by, continuously working to minimise waste, (for example, water & cardboard recycling), prioritise eco-friendly suppliers, (for example, renewable energy switch), and promote remote work to reduce carbon emissions.

Your role as Junior AV Executive will include supporting these efforts by helping to implement green office practices, coordinating initiatives that enhance our corporate social responsibility, and ensuring our operations align with our values of sustainability and social responsibility.

Sound good to you? Then get in touch.

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.