Job description
Job Description
SPARK FOUNDRY’s AV department is a large team that plan and buy a number of clients across the teams. We are diverse in our experience, personalities, nationalities and the clients we look after - and we celebrate that diversity.
The clients range from large to small in terms of spend and we are able to provide each with the best solution they need for AV. We have weekly meetings as a department and keep each other up to date with what is going on. The team are also great at helping each other when needed.
The Clients
The AV Executive role will see the successful candidate working across a mixture of clients across various array of clients including Currys, ASDA, GSK, Royal London, Autoglass, KAYAK, Clarins and Under Armour to name a few.
These are just a few of clients we have within Spark Foundry’s AV department with clients spanning across many different sectors and all with a different strategy for business performance. Due to the wide array of the clients, you will learn how to work across various different strategies for clients mixing brand performance with brand awareness. These will run across a mixture of TV airtime, Video on Demand, Cinema and TV sponsorships.
We have a good relationship with the clients and keep in close contact about everything from campaigns to wider market news. They are very flexible and willing to adapt to get the best from their plans. As an Executive, you will have contact with the client and will be involved in campaigns from the planning stage.
Qualifications
We need someone who is able to help monitor and buy across multiple brands across TV, VOD, Cinema and Connected TV platforms.
With such a varied mix of clients with different needs, we will need candidates to be agile and fast learners so they can adapt to new situations and new briefs. With this, candidates will need to have strong attention to detail as well as being comfortable understanding data. These analytical skills will be key across all clients and used daily to help monitor and optimise business results for clients.
You will be working in an AV team that sit within Spark Foundry that provide a full service to the client. You will work alongside and with the planning teams and digital teams as well as other areas such as sponsorship.
You must be organized, proactive and able to deal with any changes/ problems the client present efficiently and accurately.
The Package
Additional information
We are diverse though our experience, people and the clients we look after - and we celebrate that diversity. Our people hold us accountable to our beliefs and via regular surveys and our grass roots D&I team, The Collective, and internal next generation board, Firestarters, we hold regular events and work continually towards generating ideas, initiatives and educating our people to ensure we are a diverse and inclusive agency.
As part of our dedication to create an inclusive and diverse workforce, Spark Foundry is committed to equal access to opportunity for people without regard to race, age, sex, disability, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, gender identity or religion. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments for employees with disabilities and for candidates in our application process. If you need assistance or adjustment due to a disability, please contact us.
The Agency
SPARK FOUNDRY is a thriving global media network and part of Publicis Groupe, one of the world’s leading communications groups. We are globally connected with over 8,000 employees in 110 offices across 70 countries.
Who We Are in the UK?
Spark Foundry, the Acceleration Agency.
We help brands to identify, learn and respond to opportunities faster than the competition.
Every client has an area of their business they need to accelerate, from short term goals to long term transformation.
We’ve proven our approach during the most difficult year on record. Now we’re using it to provide a launch pad for their future.
Come be an accelerator with us.
How we accelerate
• Planning: an approach that works in practice rather than theory, arming planners with the ability to create cutting edge campaigns
• Intelligence: a suite of tools that give definitive answers to big questions, and uncovers actionable insights about real people
• Trading: a model built on flexibility and trusted relationships, underpinned with bold guarantees
• Relationships: a culture of asking challenging questions to better understand the brief – we are not a ‘yes’ agency
• People: a strong history of recruiting talent from diverse backgrounds and accelerating their careers