AV Business Director
On-siteManchester, England, United Kingdom
Manchester, England, United KingdomOn-siteFull TimeSenior LevelEnterprise
Full TimeSenior LevelEnterprise
Job Summary
Lead the AV team as senior representative for EMN, managing client relationships, media owner partnerships, and internal stakeholders across the UK business. Drive strategic planning, new business pitching, and organic development while overseeing team efficiency, training, and culture implementation. Ensure zero-error execution in briefing, planning, and reporting outputs, maintaining full compliance with trading objectives and financial procedures. Present market insights, lead internal/external events, and champion innovation through data-driven approaches.
Required Qualifications
- Extensive knowledge of the AV market
- Market mechanics (including audits)
- All AV tools used
- Specialism excellence in the overall Teams output
- Long term proof of strong leadership
- Proactive strategic thinking
- Great communication skills
- Ability to flex your style dependent on personality type
- Numeracy acumen
- Strong presentation skills
- History of being a team player
- Individual and team development
- Resilience
- Ability to remain calm under pressure
- High level of presentation skills
- Ability to present at short notice to a range of audiences both internally and externally
- Ensure our AV team maintains zero errors across everything we do
- Recommendations being supported with rationale and clear understanding
- Digitally literate in the field of AV
- Ensure our team are putting data at the heart of plans
- Confident in challenging briefs
- Deliver innovation/new thinking wherever possible across everything we do as AV
- Genuine, proactive interest in industry research
- View to producing award-winning work across our team
- Adaptable
- Pro-active
- Ability to change approach or tweak work based on feedback and changing circumstances to meet the needs of the team, clients and colleagues
- Best practice approach to buying
- Followed by all of you reports
- All trading requirements are monitored, managed, communicated, and met across all AV channels
- Senior person for escalation issues across the Team, both internally and externally
- Commercial awareness
- Understanding what is needed to make essencemediacom UK a successful business
- Work closely with the senior commercial and UK trading team to help deliver this across our AV Team
- Ultimately responsible for our team's output for audits
- Delivering PRF's
- Ensure all financial procedures are adhered to
- Accounts are SOx compliant
- Demonstrate a clear understanding of central trading strategy
- Support however required UK key partners
- Help to deliver and report against trading objectives set by the UK, EMN Leadership and Commercial teams
- Understand the commercial mechanics that effect our team
- Lead our AV thinking in new business pitching
- Organic business development
- Leveraging media partner relationships to bolster our thinking and ideas
- Senior EMN AV representative
- For all clients, media partners and internal stake holders across our UK business
- Right to work in this location (UK)
Desired Qualifications
- Master's degree preferred
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