AV Account Manager

Overall Purpose

As AV Account Manager, you’re responsible for the day to day management and delivery of best-in-class performance for your clients, supporting the AV team in the nurturing of junior talent and driving value across the agency and your accounts. This opportunity will also provide exposure to buying across international markets (a plus if you’ve already bought in European markets).

You are experienced in linear and BVOD planning and buying as a minimum (radio, digital audio and cinema are advantageous), and have a curiosity for how the industry is evolving, and how this can make the media buying we deliver for our clients more interesting. You understand brand and performance all ladder up to the same objective and can each deliver results, particularly when they’re integrated. You ensure you consider measurement and impact, for every plan you curate.

You’re capable of forming strong relationships, especially with key media owners (ITV, Ch4, SKY, Netflix, Amazon, Disney+ etc…) to understand the market and negotiate the best value for your clients.

You enjoy communicating with clients and are able to manage deadlines to ensure activity can launch on time, when within our control e.g. notifying of creative and booking deadlines, supporting on Clearcast approval (when required) and proactively reminding when these are creeping up if booking/creative delivery hasn’t been confirmed.

You’re not tied to “what’s been and done” in the industry and open to challenging new ways of working. You’re excited to learn new skills you haven’t been exposed to yet (if you haven’t) such as programmatic buying of AV media across DSPs such as The Trade Desk, Amazon and DV360. Experience in programmatic buying isn’t essential, training will be provided as we’ve been accelerating our buyers into the programmatic space (we see programmatic as a method of buying, not a channel in itself).

Additionally, and most importantly, we want your ideas! Everyone’s contributions are welcome when it comes to planning campaigns for our clients, or proactively suggesting new possibilities for them.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Ideally 3+ years of AV planning and buying experience within a media agency or broadcaster, with a proven track record managing successful campaigns across Linear TV and BVOD as a minimum.
• Hands-on experience in AV planning and buying, including campaign delivery and post-analysis across major UK media owners and platforms (Sky, ITV, Channel 4, Amazon Prime, Global, Bauer, Pearl & Dean etc.).
• Ability to develop test & learn frameworks to continually improve channel performance — spanning areas such as creative optimisation, cross-channel measurement and station mix optimisations.
• Strong knowledge of AV systems and tools such as Caria, TechEdge, Adwanted (formerly DEN), and industry research sources (BARB, RAJAR, Thinkbox, Touchpoints).
• Good understanding of AV trading principles, pricing models and measurement approaches.
• Manage media investment and accounting, ensuring billing hygiene and effective revenue management across all AV activity.
• Experience in building strong relationships – both internally with planning, digital and creative teams, and externally with clients and media partners.
• Highly collaborative, organised and detail-orientated – able to manage multiple campaigns, partners and stakeholders simultaneously without losing sight of quality or precision.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a proactive and positive approach to problem solving and teamwork.