Senior av account executive

About The Role

Responsibilities:

• Media Buying: Work closely with your Account Manager to monitor and manage the linear TV campaigns you are responsible for. Manage campaign setups accurately in Finance systems, select PYOs, send turnarounds, and negotiate with sales houses for optimal airtime. Communicate proactively with your team regarding pricing fluctuations. Learn programmatic buying, understanding at least one DSP buying platform.
• Media Planning: Collaborate closely with your Account Manager to learn and activate media planning strategies. Be able to plan and buy aspects of linear and digital campaigns, ensuring effective use of planning tools while collaborating with offshore teams. Understand the fundamentals of relevant Unified Video tools.
• Communication and Account Management: Maintain constant communication with media owners to track campaign performance. Provide timely updates to the internal team and communicate effectively with clients, both during and after the campaign, in writing and in person. Support co-ordination team you are assigned to by liaising with other members of the team, sharing with the department, and keeping on top of regular tasks.
• Work Quality: Ensure high-quality work and attention to detail, mentoring junior staff as needed. Deliver accurate campaign updates pre, mid, and post-campaign. Be responsible for your own development and learning, leading by example for junior team members.

About the Agency:

MG OMD was established in 1990 as a challenger media agency (Manning Gottlieb Media) that placed craft, trust and performance at the heart of media planning and buying.

Since joining Omnicom network’s OMG (Omnicom Media Group) in 1998, we have continued to retain our founding ethos of providing clients with bespoke approaches, unprecedented insight, specialism, security and transparency; helping our clients to use media to unlock their competitive advantage and deliver innovative, effective and award-winning work and campaigns that create difference that matters.

MG OMD is the second-largest media agency in the UK. We are the most awarded media agency in both the history of the IPA Effectiveness Awards and Thinkbox’s TV Planning Awards and have this year been named as Agency of the Year in The Media Leader UK awards, Campaign Global awards and Campaign UK awards.

With over 500 employees working across some of the UK’s leading brands including the John Lewis Partnership, Virgin Media O2, British Airways, Specsavers, HM Government, LNER, Sony Pictures and Age UK; it is our people who ultimately make the award-winning difference.

So, true to our ethos, we work hard at creating a spirit and atmosphere that inspires our people to be considerate, honest, and professional whilst also being stimulating, imaginative and inspirational.

We want people who are great to work with, fun to be with and who genuinely care; about each other, our clients, our media partners and doing great work.

In return, we provide an amazingly collaborative culture, where open communication and an unwavering commitment to diversity of thinking, diversity of background and diversity of skillsets runs through everything we do. All backed up by the highest standards of training, development and support in the industry; so much so, that we have attained IPA (Institute of Practitioners in Advertising) CPD Gold Accreditation for the 13th year running and maintained our CPD Platinum Accreditation for the 7th consecutive year, showcasing our commitment to continuous professional development. We were also featured in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work in both 2023 and 2024. Our being named is completely based on the opinions and perspectives of our employees which makes the accolade all that more special.