AV BUSINESS DIRECTOR

Medialab has been one of the fastest growing agencies in the UK over the last three years. We have tripled our revenue, more than doubled (and diversified) our talent and capability base winning a significant volume of new business and retaining and strengthening existing client relationships.

At the heart of this unparalleled growth has been our Linear TV planning, trading and optimisation excellence delivering consistent, positive and attributable impact on our client partners’ performance across brand and acquisition metrics in the Charity, Direct to Consumer and Financial Services sectors.

Our TV revenue has had significant grown in the last 5 years and it is the role of the Business Director to support, develop and inspire the TV team to continue this market leading, transparent growth.

THE OPPORTUNITY

This would be a critical leadership role within Medialab’s Senior Management Team, reporting to the Broadcast Director and Director of Advanced TV. The AV Business Director is one of the key internal and external (with media partners and client partners) faces of Medialab helping to design, develop and accelerate role designing, building and key areas of TV across Linear and Video-on-Demand.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

• Improve and evolve our outstanding performance and reputation for brilliant TV pricing and quality negotiation and delivery.
• Acts as a senior partner and expert for co-developing and delivering all areas of product strategy in TV including Linear & working with the Director of Advanced TV to further develop Video-on Demand across our ever-broadening client portfolio.
• Helping to retain existing client business and prospect and win new client business. • Create a TV education programme for all Medialab colleagues.
• Work with Client teams to create bespoke client strategies for creating incremental spend alongside linear. • Leadership with key media owner partners to ensure effective partnership’s delivering, value, insight and opportunity.
• Be heavily involved in winning new business.
• Work with Marketing to raise your and our industry profile.
• Contribute to agency-wide continuous improvement projects regarding processes and quality standards.

THE SKILLS YOU WILL BRING

• Highly experienced and hugely highly respected Linear TV trader.
• Experienced team leader used to motivating and inspiring a team.
• Extensive experience in Brand and DRTV planning and optimisation.
• Clear view of the opportunity that the evolving TV landscape affords. Comfortable creating strategies around this – BVOD/AVOD/SVOD and FAST.
• Ability to design, develop and deliver new products or approaches.
• Comfortable to lead on all upskilling in relation to all areas of TV including Linear and all areas of Video-on-Demand – team and clients.
• Experienced at leading on and managing strategies to grow usage of Video-on-Demand with clients.
• A passion for measurement and accountability that drives growth.
• Strong network/respected with senior media owner and intermediary/auditor partners.
  

WHAT TO EXPECT FROM US:

Working at Medialab comes with lots of perks including all the usual things you would expect, such as a competitive salary package, pension, season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, weekly social events and big summer / end of year parties.

On top of that, we offer extra incentives which make life at Medialab even more rewarding:

• 25 days holiday, (including office closure between Christmas and New Year)
• Birthday day off

• Mental Health Awareness Day off
• Holiday buying scheme
• Hybrid working between office and home
• Flexi-hours
• Work abroad scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• Health Cash Plan
• Life Assurance
• Discounted Gym Membership
• Retail discounts
• Quarterly reviews to enhance career progression
• Continuous professional development and training - CPD Platinum accreditation by the IPA
• Internal mentoring programme
• Membership to Bloom and bespoke mentorship for female talent
• A long weekend/week away at Medialab’s expense for long service
• Charity volunteering days fully paid.
• Free access to Health and Wellbeing Apps.
• Free professional counselling.
• Access to Mental Health Allies (1 in 15 employees are trained in Mental Health First Aid).
• Enhanced parental leave pay for new parents
  

WHO WE ARE

Medialab is the UK’s leading independent media agency, and one of the fastest growing. We’re a media agency that’s made differently. Purpose-led, data-driven, founder-run and proudly independent. Our independence means we can focus 100% on doing the right thing to secure success for our clients and our brilliant people. We work with a wide variety of clients including Hovis, SunLife, Laithwaites Wine, EMMA, Save the Children, Mind, Guide Dogs, Alzheimer’s Society, RLNI and Clearscore.

We’re a diverse team of 150 people (and growing), based near Oxford Circus. Our people-first, purpose-driven culture has been key to our success. We commit to creating a more sustainable future through our partnership with FuturePlus, and foster a diverse and inclusive culture, though a number of DEI Communities to drive real change. We offer a supportive environment for working parents, carers, those who are (peri)menopausaland anyone else who needs it, and flexible working opportunities to all, from day one.

Our entrepreneurial spirit means success is rewarded and there are no limits to what you can achieve, which our employees agree with, by supporting our place in Campaign’s ‘Best Places to work’ for 4 years in a row, and we recently won Silver in Campaign’s Agency of the Year Awards