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Head of Affiliates
"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough." Whilst Einstein was talking about astro-pyshics his quote fits well with my role as head of affiliates. The world of affiliates is a fast-paced one and if I'm not using my experience to add strategically to a clients campaign or managing the Contacts Network then I'm taking in all the new technology and opportunities that constantly arise from this medium.
Vision Account Executive
Studying theatre at the Brit School gave me autonomy at 16 years old. It taught me alot about preparation and listening (as well as how to really party). Also enabled me to develop my singing. I now host karaoke, parties and mobile discos as a hobby for family, friends and charity events. It taught me how to control large crowds and how keep them dancing! The social skills required for such a diverse range of people comes in really handy too. Also means I can always make an internal do really good fun!
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!)
Account Executive
I spent one year working with the military and athletes in pursuit of reaching the peaks of Everest, trekking to the poles or racing in the Dubai grand prix. Working with the military, I was also lucky enough to experience a number of boys toys many can only dream of, including riding a G-Force simulator - an experience usually reserved for fighter pilots and astronauts.
Every time someone mentions what I did in the past, they always question how I ended up in media. Besides the great people and the creative nature of the industry, media allowed me to take my data acquisition, interpretation and analysis skills and apply them to media planning and optimisation process.
Group Insight Director
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.
International Group Account Director
Whilst I was a teaching assistant at a school in Buenos Aires, I played in a local cricket league. This coincided with the 1997 South American Cricket Championships, and to my pleasant surprise I was invited to play for the Peru cricket team. I was opening bowler and played against Chile and Brazil with tournament stats of 7 wickets and 34 runs. Whilst the standard and scale was not quite like the World Cup cricket (there were 4 teams!), it was a lot of fun and I achieved a life-long ambition: to play sport at international level.
Business Director
As a Business Director, 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.
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.
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.
Managing Partner - Strategy
Why do consumers behave in a certain way, why is Sunday more responsive than Wednesday, why do our results get better at the end of the month? This is what makes media so interesting and exciting, particularly now, when the consumer has more control than ever and potential touch and influencing points are expanding daily.
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.
Managing Partner - Client Service
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.
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.
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.
Managing Partner - Client, Business and People Development
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.
Head of Integrated Communications
Every day I help drive our teams to deliver brilliant strategies that produce results for our clients. I love the variety of my job as the challenges our clients face are constantly evolving so every day is different. The success of our clients motivates me and the highlight of my career was winning three IPA Effectiveness Awards for the launch of Magners Irish Cider. It is a brilliant place to work, it's the people that make it special.
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 29 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.
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.
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.
Head of Insight and Effectiveness
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!
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.
Strategist
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.
Strategist
My team work across four clients, ranging from fast-paced retail to premium leisure brands, giving us all a wide range of media and market knowledge.
We work on the biggest impulse brand in the UK, which can mean we are doing work for a client on a Sunday afternoon and also have the odd stressful early morning planning a media campaign. But it also means no two days are the same. The role is busy and exciting, I find myself working on an adrenaline rush due to the fast-paced nature of the business.
Group Account Director
Working on multiple briefs and tight deadlines for clients as diverse as Nationwide and TUI is challenging and requires adaptability in an extremely fast-paced environment. My role is very dynamic, involving anything from attending client meetings, creating and presenting new digital strategies and implementing campaigns through to evaluation. Within this brilliant and constantly evolving environment I am exposed to an array of new technologies, which I get to work with daily.
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.
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 12 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.
