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Havas

Senior Planning Director

Havas

. Lead the client planning team on the BBC account within Havas Media Manchester .

Posted 10/9/2026contractManchester • United KingdomSeniorWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in media planning and strategy, with a strong focus on client relationship management, account profitability, and talent development. Capable of creating measurement frameworks and defining KPIs to drive commercial success.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Media PlanningClient Relationship ManagementAccount ProfitabilityTalent DevelopmentStrategic Business Planning

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Hard Skills
Media StrategyMeasurement FrameworksKPI DefinitionCommercial Decision-MakingPlanning Improvements
Soft Skills
Client CommunicationConflict ManagementTeam LeadershipCritical EvaluationJudgment Making
Tools & Technologies
Havas Products and Services
Industry Keywords
Account ManagementCommercial OpportunitiesAgency CollaborationWelfare ConcernsPersonnel Issues

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Lead the client planning team on the BBC account within Havas Media Manchester
  • Understand client needs and deliver best-in-class, channel-neutral media solutions
  • Conduct proactive and well-informed client conversations
  • Work closely with internal agency teams and departments to align client and agency needs
  • Grow account profitability year on year
  • Work directly at BBC offices in Salford to build client relationships and collaborate with the agency-client group
  • Manage team capacity and hours dedicated to the account
  • Communicate account challenges and suggest structural changes to retainers or contracts
  • Manage talent development and support team members’ growth
  • Work with HR to manage conflict, welfare concerns, personnel issues, and disciplinary matters
  • Identify commercial opportunities aligned with agency goals
  • Make commercial decisions based on strategic business plans and recommendations
  • Develop innovative ideas that may lead to award-nominated work
  • Set strategic and annual planning with Source of Growth analysis
  • Create measurement frameworks and guidance for KPIs

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Experience and industry knowledge in media planning and strategy
  • Ability to identify planning, strategic, and commercial improvements
  • Understanding of Havas products and services and how they support client objectives
  • Ability to use tools to interrogate hypotheses and provide direction
  • Ability to critically evaluate contradictory information and draw conclusions from multiple sources
  • Ability to make clear, evidence-based judgements
  • Ability to create measurement frameworks and define appropriate KPIs
  • Ability to manage client planning teams and specialist team leads
  • Ability to manage account profitability and commercial decisions
  • Ability to manage talent development, conflict situations, welfare concerns, and disciplinary matters when required
  • Ability to develop market and economic understanding to support commercial recommendations

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Hybrid working: typically 3 days in the office and 2 days from home
  • Opportunity to work remotely from anywhere in the world for up to 4 weeks per calendar year
  • Generous holiday allocation
  • Birthday off
  • One mental health day per quarter
  • Enhanced parental leave package for all parents
  • Rental Deposit Loan
  • Season ticket loan
  • Free mortgage advice
  • Subsidised gym membership
  • Social club
  • Bar nights
  • Early Friday finishes