PRIMARY LOCATION: - Bengalure
JOB SUMMARY:
Business Director is a leader who contributes to the brand strategy, builds solid relationships with clients across all levels and functions, and who is able to manage, lead and develop their internal Planning team while also playing an active “hands-on” role in the deployment of strategic plans.
REPORTING: Vice President
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Manage day-to-day client interactions for campaign execution
- Responsible for understanding client’s marketing objectives/goals and agency deliverables
- Should have the ability to contribute to key strategic recommendations based on client’s brief and challenges
- Should have the capability to design integrated 360-degree campaigns
- Should be enthusiast in data mining to arrive at media platform and innovations
- Day-to-day liaison with clients on Campaign updates / optimization / delivery
- Responsible for contributing ideas to grow the client’s business
- Pro-actively providing the clients marketing plans with the greatest amount of value-ad
- Develops comprehensive agendas for weekly client planning/status meetings.
- Format and prepare weekly performance reports for clients
- Track, analyze and summarize program results and progress
- Identify incremental business opportunities
- Provide clients with budgetary updates
- Research and prepare materials for client presentations and engagements
- Oversee management of Ad campaigns as required across various ad platforms
- Monitor progress of campaigns using various reporting tools
- Perform account/campaign hygiene & performance checks
- Oversee financial discipline of the accounts handled
PROFILE REQUIREMENTS:
- 9-11 years of agency experience
- Post Graduate Degree/ Diploma in Advertising/Marketing/Communication
Results-driven professional
Data interpretation and a good presenter
Strong Business Acumen
Strategic Thinker with an aggressive attitude towards implementing new Strategies & processes
PREFERRED SKILLS:
- Excellent research and analytical thinking skills
- Experience in Tools - GWI, TGI, Reach planner, Market intelligence, Similar Web, Comm score,
- Strong presentation skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Prior Experience in handling large Client accounts
- Strong time management and speed of delivery
- Strong Negotiation skills
- Strong relationships in the Industry
About Havas
Founded in 1835 in Paris, Havas is one of the world’s largest global communications networks, with more than 22,000 people in over 100 countries sharing one single mission: to make a meaningful difference to brands, businesses, and people. Havas has developed a fully integrated model through its 70+ Havas Villages around the world, covering all communication activities. The teams of the three business units, Havas Creative Network, Havas Media Network and Havas Health & You, work together with agility and in perfect synergy to offer tailor-made, innovative solutions to clients that support them in their positive transformation. Havas is committed to building a diverse culture where everybody feels they belong and can be themselves and thrive. Havas integrated into Vivendi, a global leader in media, entertainment, and communications, in December 2017. Further information about Havas is available at .
About Havas India
Havas India gathers the expertise of 20 agencies and specialised divisions across 3 verticals: Havas Media Network – Havas Media, PivotRoots (integrated digital), Arena Media, Havas Media Tribes (out-of-home), Havas Market (e-commerce), Havas Play (sports, entertainment & content), Havas Programmatic Hub (programmatic trading desk), Havas Analytics (data & analytics), Socialyse (pure play social media), and Havas Play Gameplan (sports marketing); Havas Creative Network – Havas Worldwide India (creative), Havas People India (talent communications & employer branding), Havas CX India (customer experience), Think Design (UX/UI), Shobiz (experiential marketing), Shobiz Exhibits (exhibitions) Conran Design Group Mumbai (branding & design), PR Pundit Havas Red (PR), and Prose on Pixels (content-at-scale); Havas Health & You – Havas Life Sorento (health & wellness communications). With its unique Village model, it is an integrated network present across 3 Villages in Mumbai, Gurgaon and Bengaluru, and regional offices in Kolkata, New Delhi, Hyderabad and Chennai, with over 2000+ professionals and associates.
As one of India’s fastest growing and agile networks, Havas India has bagged multiple new clients across verticals and won several prestigious awards over the last 2 years including the group being Great Place To Work® Certified™ twice in a row (Nov 2022 - Nov 2023 & Dec 2023 – Dec 2024), consistently being featured in the top 3 at R3 New Business League rankings, and winning at Campaign Asia-Pacific Agency of the Year awards, e4m Indian Marketing Awards 2023, ABBY One Show 2023, Campaign Women Leading Change awards, and more. Our CSR programs, DE&I initiatives, and being actively involved in various industry associations is what keeps us invested as a network that has a clear mission of making a meaningful difference to brands, businesses and people.
For more information, visit and follow Havas India on social media.
About Havas Media Network India
Havas Media Network India is a media conglomerate that operates within a global framework – Mx – to drive Media Experiences and invest in Meaningful Media to build Meaningful Brands. The network offers a wide range of integrated marketing solutions covering strategy, media planning & buying, PR, social media, mobile, sports & entertainment, data, research & analytics services across traditional and digital media. It consists of media networks – Havas Media, PivotRoots and Arena Media, and specialist brands – Havas Market (e-commerce), Havas Play (entertainment, gaming, sports and fandom), Havas Play Gameplan (sports marketing), Havas Programmatic Hub (programmatic trading desk), Havas Analytics (data & analytics), Socialyse (social media), KlugKlug (influencer marketing) & Havas Media Tribes (out-of-home).
For more information, visit & follow Havas Media Network on social media.