Media Manager (Bilingual)

Description de Poste

Overview

Havas Media has an immediate position available for a Manager, Media Planning in the Montreal office.

As a Manager, you are responsible for the oversight of the day-to-day team and media assignments at Havas Media. You are expected to understand your clients’ line of business & comfortable building client relationships, experience developing junior team members, ensure best practices, exemplify collaboration across the agency, and a passion for seeking out new opportunities for clients. You organize/manage workflow; mentor junior team members to fulfil all media planning, analysis, and scheduling requests. To be successful, you must have a pulse for innovation & creativity, a proactive nature, organized and thorough, and a team player that is keen to build meaningful connections.

Responsibilities

• Build communication/channel frameworks and lead the end-to-end planning and execution of media plans as it pertains to agreed strategy.
• Strong Project Management capabilities with a solution-oriented mindset and the ability to lead and direct stakeholders without compromising deliverables.
• Work collaboratively with specialized teams (SEM, social, programmatic, broadcast) to integrate channel expertise where required for your client tasks and campaigns.
• Lead the issuance of schedules, documentation, financials that are required to keep projects/deliverables/campaigns on track, on schedule and within budget for the client.
• Manage and coach team members in all areas of media planning and execution to achieve both client goals and agency goals.
• Ability to assess requests/tasks to prioritize and complete/delegate to meet deliverable timelines.
• Quality control of all components of media campaigns actioned by the planning team and specialized teams.
• Oversee all financial processes actioned by the planning team and finance team.

Experience Requirements

• 5+ years’ experience in 360 media planning (print, broadcast, digital, OOH, social, SEM).
• 2-3 years’ experience managing direct reports including annual evaluations.
• Strong understanding of industry tools and resources to develop research, insights, and ideas for all media initiatives.
• Must be bilingual and able to manage clients and create materials and present in both English and French.
• Attention to detail and the ability to work in a team, collaborate with and influence others.
• Excellent client acumen and relationship building skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, specifically the ability to prepare clear and concise client-ready documents.
• Organized with a strong attention to detail, focused on accuracy.
• Strong expertise in Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel.

Why Join us?

We are deeply committed to investing in the professional development of our team members, providing ample opportunities to expand skills, take on diverse challenges, and contribute to high-impact projects. Our passion for what we do drives us. Joining our team means being part of a culture and organization that prioritizes growth, innovation, and the pursuit of excellence... not to mention you would make some pretty cool new friends!

Benefits

Havas also offers a comprehensive benefits program, which includes medical, dental, wellness, life and disability insurance, RRSP plan and match, paid parental leave top-up, and paid time off.