Scott Brown,

Account Executive

I love working at MPG Media Contacts because I have a view of the whole media spectrum. I work mainly on search and display but I get an insight into social media, press and other traditional media. My clients operate across different sectors which keeps everyday very interesting. I get to work with the best so I learn from the best. On top of this they are just really fun to work with! Everyone is proud to work here which makes it seem like a big family so I can talk to anyone without any barriers.

Sam Packer,

Account Manager

The media industry has brought me a lot of opportunities, not just in terms of the events and parties I have been lucky enough to be invited to but also the wide range of talented individuals who I have worked with on a day to day basis at MPG Media Contacts who have helped me develop at my profession but also as a person. It's great to get exposure to an array of industry experts and be able to develop a media strategy all the way through to seeing it out in the public domain. Working as an Account Manager for Hyundai, AXA and Isklar day to day can involve anything from attending client meetings, developing strategies, responding to client briefs, implementing campaigns and reviewing media activity.

Paul Muller,

IT Support Technician

"MPG Media Contacts is a great place to work, filled with passionate, hard working, friendly people. For someone in a junior position like myself, it is refreshing to work for a company that doesn’t make you feel small, and who always let you know that your efforts are appreciated. I started as an office assistant here and within a year have become part of the IT team - that's the great thing about this place, MPG Media Contacts cares about it's people."

Louise Nylander,

Account Director

I like the feel of the agency, its medium sized but packs a punch! We have the time and resource to build close relationships with our clients on a daily basis. Its fast-paced and hectic but in turn everybody is friendly and easy to get along with. The honesty fridge is also a big pull! Unlimited chocolate? Yes please! I oversee the online display media campaign implementation and planning on the key digital accounts within the agency, KIA Motors, National Express and Nationwide. I am the day to day contact for digital account management amongst the client group and I am also tasked with selling in new ideas with clear rationale and justification on a results basis, and servicing client needs with the help and support of my team.

Laura Dickinson,

Account Executive

"What I love about working here is the chance to learn about media from a 360 perspective from the start of my career and all the great people that I work with. My daily role includes tracking competitor reporting, optimising online search and display campaigns and reporting back to clients such as EDF Energy, Hermes and Ask Jeeves."

Kathryn Armstrong,

Account Manager

MPG Media Contacts is a friendly and exciting agency that allows me to plan and buy across all media for a wide range of clients including P&O Ferries, Solgar Vitamins and Air France. No 2 days are the same and that is what keeps my job fresh and exciting. It's also nice to know no one is ever too busy (or senior) to offer their opinion or advice.

Jenna Walker,

Copy & Creative Content Editor

Coming from a non-media background, I’m still embracing the novelty of working for an agency – especially one with so much character and energy. There’s such a feeling of unity and familiarity that work doesn’t feel like work at all. It’s chaos, but it’s good chaos. We all have such a genuine trust in each others’ ability and many of our clients are more like friends, so it makes our jobs very easy. There’s also a cupboard upstairs jammed full of sweets. I’d be lying if I said that wasn’t one of the reasons I love this place. I work alongside, and as part of, our Creative, Social and Search teams - which means no one day is ever the same. In a nutshell, on any one day I might write some PPC adverts or optimise a client's website copy. I'm also drafted in to edit our PR and marketing correspondence, as well as helping out with creative/tone and engagement ideas for pitches. On top of this, I help maintain our social networking sites, and work to support our Social Media and Mobile teams with copy and creative content.

Jas Gierlinski,

Group Account Director / Head of ViU

Watching the meteoric growth and change at MPG Media Contacts over 5 years has been astounding. Being part of that change has made it impossible to leave. The agency has evolved to the new world and made sure everyone under it’s roof is given the best chance to grow and evolve with it. I love the breadth of roles you can do, from running internal integration teams and trying to educate other clients, through to having a 360° involvement in your dedicated accounts. It’s a great working environment and some superb senior talent who are always around when needed.

Holly Roberts,

Recruitment Advisor

MPG Media Contacts is a wonderful community. It is not only a great media agency, but a solid business as whole, which makes it so appealing. The senior figures here also help to make it a brilliant place to work, consistently striving to improve processes from furthering staff careers to ensuring a client campaign is achieving and delivering the best results. I love working here because of the people and our values. Throughout the business we have some of the most talented and well respected individuals who are passionate about their clients business needs. My role is to ensure we are maintaining this trend, by spotting the best talent in the industry and getting them on-board.

Clare Chapman,

Group Account Director

Working on a diverse mix of interesting accounts such as BBC, EDF Energy andEast Coast means I’m constantly challenged and learning new things. I love being surrounded by lots of very clever and talented people (and I pretend to be one). Our location in between Covent Garden and Soho also means proximity to fabulous shops, bars and eating places.

Carolyne Bourhis,

International Account Director

It's very important when living in another country that you feel at home, and MPG International Media Contacts has definately made me feel that way. From my team mates to the most senior people in the agency, I can always rely on my colleagues. The amount of industry knowledge in the building is outstanding. Everyone's approachability and willingness to share it makes it a fantastic place to develop a career. MPG International Media Contacts offers the best of both worlds, a family-size agency with a human face, with the support of a large global group.

Amy King,

Head of Press

Heading up the Press Buying at MPG is the perfect role for me. With a family background in media I knew press was the place for me from an early age. I am a true trader at heart and I am always after maximum value but also love the way MPG tailors all ideas to the individual clients. MPG is a vibrant agency where I can exude my passion for press.

Candice Jenkins,

Pitch Manager

Back in the day, I was the UK Youth Latin American Champion. I represented England in competitions all over the world and trained with the best coaches. I’d like to think that the discipline and dedication it instilled, along with the creativity and flair, have carried over into other areas of my life, including my role here. It was an amazing experience that will always stay with me as a great chapter in my life. Also meant I could teach a few of the boys here, how to channel their inner Fred Astaire for their wedding first dances (including my own husband, Strategy Director- Simon Jenkins!)

Bill Doris,

Head of Insight

Working within the Insight & Effectiveness Team I work across all clients, so understandably I have a varied and ever-changing work load. 

From being experts in niche FMCG products to understanding the way in which people book holidays, or advising on the best channel mix to drive people to a store, every day is different.  We have a state-of-the-art set of resources and systems to aid our thinking, and we get to work with some of the best people in the business, which is a great bonus.

This is a job for someone who understands the changing media and consumer landscapes, can spot an emerging trend and, more importantly, has the ability to apply these learnings to a client's business need.

Charlotte Steel,

Head of Digital

My job is to keep up with all that changes in the mad world of digital. I'm here to make sure that our clients are leveraging everything from Twitter to mobile to ad exchanges and ensuring brilliant results through my teams. I'm also a bit of a data junkie so I love to get under the skin of a clients numbers to deliver brilliant value for the money they spend in digital.

Kelly Parker,

Business Director

Everyone here is brilliant, and to me they are like family. We've really found the right balance of professionalism and fun here and I think it's true to say that our employees and clients love us for it. Management here empower their teams to run the business with the pride and passion which delivers brilliant results for our clients.

John McLoughlin,

Chief Operating Officer

We have a crucial advantage here in that we are still a relatively compact unit, we're nimble and so we can invest in new services pretty quickly.  

Most of my career has been spent here, and that's because we have never deviated from putting our clients first, and then making sure we treat our own people (and those that we interact with during the course of our working day) as we would like to be treated ourselves.

Chris Bourke,

Head of Mobile

I work alongside my brother Kieran running Mobext, the mobile division. We develop brilliant mobile advertising strategies for our clients. It's such an exciting time as the mobile media market is doubling in size each year and this demonstrates advertisers growing appetite for it.

Peter Bennett,

Managing Partner

My job involves running accounts and managing client relationships throughout the agency, making sure that we deliver brilliant work and service.  

I have been here for 16 years; this place thrives on the people and the passion to do the best possible job for our clients.

Simon Blackburn,

Business Director & Head of Radio

I tend to start earlier in the day as I get older; but I love the quiet starts in the morning to plan the day ahead. Having now worked in media for 13 years; I still thoroughly enjoy 'most' days and the people I am fortunate enough to work with here make the whole experience even more worthwhile - this is largely why I am still here and I have never worked for anyone else. I have met some truly brilliant characters over the years and I am lucky enough to manage a hard working and truly dedicated team. A typical day for me involves ensuring that all my clients are happy and that my team have suitable resource to tackle all the challenges that face them on a day to day basis.

Marc Mendoza,

CEO

Quiet time in the early mornings are lovely to get the thinking, reading and writing done. Many days are filled with the "Have you got a minute..." knocks at the door and these are usually welcome (although not when I'm eating breakfast...grrrrr).

Helping our media teams make better decisions for appreciative clients still gets me animated, passionate and involved, so I try to interfere regularly. We have a brilliant family feel and we spend a lot of time keeping that aspect of our building alive and well. Then I go home to my other family - a houseful of women - where my supposed status and seniority count for nought and I always do everything I'm told.

Natasha Murray,

Managing Partner - Client Services

I've been here for 11 years now - I feel like I've grown up here! Not only did I meet my husband here, but a lot of my closest friends. I work with some brilliant people who I can learn from and have fun with at the same time. The thing I love most about working here is the passion of our people - they genuinely care about what they do and that should never be underestimated.

Alan Brydon,

Head of Trading

Life in the media world is all I could ever see myself doing. I work across all our clients to make sure they get brilliant value and ideas. This industry has brought me a lot of happiness; apart from meeting my wife, in a revolving door of a previous agency, I've had the chance to work with some amazing characters and am still friends with most people I've met along the way. People tell me I don't look old enough, (at least my wife does) but I've had 30 years working in the industry, and I'm proud to say that the highlight of these years has been the last few working with everybody here. 

Paul Frampton,

Managing Director

These days we are much more than a media agency; my diary and the fact that I'm on my third Blackberry since January are constant reminders of this. I spend very little time at my desk; I'm either in meetings or checking in with our specialist teams, ranging from our SEO geeks to our mobile wizards, catching up with our Business Directors who run our client teams and spending a couple of hours in a room with Marc (Guvnor) , John (COO) & Ben (cheque book). Having spent a lot of my career in building our digital brand, I'm obsessed with what's around the corner.

My mantra is that I want us to be brilliant in both worlds; a one stop integrated shop and expert in each and every channel, old and new.

Natalie Blackburn,

Office Manager

It is so important for visitors to feel welcome when arriving through our doors and a key aspect of my role is to manage my team to deliver a brilliant first impression.

Denise Turner,

Head of Intelligence

This is a job for someone who loves the voyage of discovery. After breakfast at home with my 2 small children I come into the office and delve into the world of the 21st century consumer. I am obsessed with understanding why people do what they do, and how media and communications influence behaviour. I can be doing anything from designing a questionnaire, to presenting the latest consumer trends to a client, to demonstrating that advertising really does work. After putting the kids to bed, I can sometimes be found in my kitchen doing a webchat with a family from our consumer panel Fabric. Discovery doesn't only happen in the office!

David Goodall,

Managing Partner - International

Working in International provides clients with a brilliantly varied landscape every day, no two days are the same and with the onslaught of an ever expanding digital space there is a seemingly endless learning curve. I am constantly driven by a myriad of opportunities and puzzles to solve with every new day.

Nik Wheatley,

Strategy Director

This was the only agency to ask me about the affect my previous work had had on client business. Bizarre but true. Across town people in snazzy specs bombed me with jargon and the same question about ‘what my favourite campaign was' but nothing about results - shocking. Obviously we all know how to have a laugh here but you can get that anywhere. What sets us apart is that near obsession with delivering brilliant results for our clients.

Phil Livingstone,

Group Account Director

To do this job you need to be highly organised, numerical and able to multitask. Above all, you need to be driven, passionate and dedicated. There's no getting away from the fact that this job is tough - it's demanding, challenging, stressful. But would I give it up? Never. It's a brilliant place to work.

Gavin Laisby,

Business Director

Every week in this job is different. I love working across so many different clients, categories and media channels.

Digital and data is redefining what the we do in this business and it's very exciting to be involved in that change. I get a buzz out of representing our clients in the market and solving their business problems, helping to develop younger staff members as well as competing with the best operators in the country in new business pitches.

I've been here for 14 years and despite massive change in the media industry some things remain consistent - the values of the company and the quality of the people within it.