Havas Media UK
Global Digital Media Director - 3/4 Month FTC
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Global Digital Media Director - 3/4 Month FTC
Digital Strategy & Media Lead – Global Digital Team Havas Media Global – London
Havas is one of the world’s largest global communications groups, operating in over 100 countries across Havas Creative Group, Havas Media Group, and Havas Health & You.
With an integrated offering—encompassing advertising, media, data, technology, digital, social, mobile, CRM, UX, PR, healthcare, design, research, and employer branding—we are the only truly unified marketer in the UK. Our mission is to unite brands and people through meaningful connections, driving business-through collaboration, agility, and a challenging, entrepreneurial spirit.
Our Global Digital team is seeking an experienced digital media professional to shape best-in-class digital strategies and media/data solutions for international clients. You will work holistically across technology, governance, campaign execution, and global/local teams to harmonise communication, drive insights, and bridge the gap between digital creativity and client needs.
About the Role
Our dynamic, entrepreneurial culture thrives on global collaboration, modelling agile team structures to align with our client partners. The ultimate goal? Leverage global media expertise across trading platforms, data, and campaigns to optimise every investment.
This role focuses on cross-functional execution, data leadership, and client partnership. You will:
- Advise clients—translating technical jargon into actionable strategy—while providing localised, global consistency through centralised insights and workflows.
- Ensure timely issue resolution, process optimisation, and training across teams and clients.
- Foster expertise exchange with regional and global partners to enhance campaign effectiveness.
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Key Responsibilities
Client & Lieutenant Leadership
- Engage clients, colleagues, and ad tech/media partners to refine strategy and execution.
- Partner with global/local activation and client teams across Havas media, advertising, and digital units.
Strategy & Integration
- Lead global priority projects to measurable success.
- Define holistic digital/media/data frameworks that prioritise consumer decision-making while balancing offline integration.
- Governance & Quality: Oversee platform usage, reporting, and insight generation to ensure high-performance campaigns.
- Driven by insights, advise on evolving digital approaches to align with clients’ evolving objectives.
Execution & Enhancement
- Collaborate across globalicional teams to harmonise creative and operational alignment.
- Troubleshoot deployment issues, working iteratively between teams to resolve technical hurdles.
Knowledge & Growth
- Guide training sessions for terminology and workflow with clients of varying digital literacy.
- Drive innovation by proposing process improvements to existing digital systems.
Essential Requirements
Experience
- 5+ years in digital media, spécialling within ad tech (e.g. GMP platforms, client enablement).
- Proven track record crafting and executing high-impact commercial campaigns with platform technology.
- Advanced expertise in data types (first-party arrays, hidden metrics) and audiences across public exchange environments.
- Recognition for delivering full-funnel strategies, understanding engagement ROI and consumer dynamics.
- Ability to strategically position data activities within the broader marketing/mmedia ecosystem.
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Technical Skills
- Platform Proficiency: Strong familiarity with global media trading platforms.
- Interpretive Skills: Aftitude translating heavy data constructs into clear recommendations.
- Corporate Multi-Stakeholder Relationships: Comfort guiding cross-functional buy-in and mitigating complexity.
Desirable Soft Skills & Behaviors
- Digital Evangelist: Continually research trends, pushing innovation in workflow, tactics and partnership models.
- time management: Juggle competing deadlines while ensuring high-quality execution.
- Confident Advocacy: Champion decisions with conviction, solving problems both independently and collaboratively.
- Analytical Mindset: Extract clean insights from nuanced datasets to guide campaigns.
- Communication (verbal & written): Translate complex campaigns to a range of stakeholders from C-level executives to novices.
- Storytelling: Presentations with clarity and passion.
Professional Values
Havas lives by a set of principles that drive our work:
- Ownership: Initiative, accountability, and emotional commitment to team and client goals.
- Transparency: Open dialogue, justifying decisions and challenging assumptions when necessary.
- Resilience & Resourcefulness: A will to tackle challenges—acting on what’s best even in difficult circumstances.
- Ambition: Treating every opportunity as a chance to refine skills and elevate outcomes.
- Open-mindedness: Seeking divergent viewpoints to form holistic decisions.
Join Havas Global Digital—where strategy, technology, and teamwork converge to future-proof digital media.
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