Agency:Havas Media Group SpainJob Description Summary:About Havas Media Global:Havas is one of the world’s largest global communications groups, operating in over 100 countries. The Group is made up of two major divisions: Havas Creative Group and Havas Media Group.About Jacobs Douwe Egberts (JDE):JDE is one of the world’s largest coffee suppliers and distributors with leading brands in beans, instant, capsules, ground coffee and tea, including DE, L’OR, Kenco, Jacobs, and Pret A Manger.Based in Amsterdam and Utrecht, JDE’s relationship with Havas has been growing significantly over the past 7 years in communications strategy, digital and offline activation, performance, and ad operations. As the lead media partner agency, Havas is responsible for 50+ JDE countries across EMEA, APAC and LatAm, including its top markets Australia, Belgium, Brazil, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Spain, and United Kingdom.The Havas Global Team working on JDE brings together culturally diverse, high-performing general specialists based in London, Paris, Madrid, and Barcelona, across account management & client service, strategy, digital operations & activation, data & measurement, and investment. The Team is leading the global relationship and working closely with the JDE Global Media & Digital and Procurement Teams. The Havas Global Team is guiding and governing 50+ local Havas offices to drive excellence and best practice throughout JDE’s media strategy, planning and activation.Job Description:The Role:The Senior Manager would also be a key connection point linking planning and trading / audit practices globally, to ensure seamless flow of key planning / buying data and consistency principles are adhered to between planning/ buying and audit workstreams. As such the Senior Manager would be a connection point between global strategy, client & commercial operations and trading & audit functions - contributing to building a logical flow from strategy, planning, buying and trading practices.This is a high profile role within the Havas Global organisation, enjoying Top Management support, in a highly influential position leading planning & trading best practices for a network of 50+ markets, building day to day partnership with planning and trading leads in markets.The role is client facing, the Senior Manager will be holding key discussions with Global Media & Digital Director and Global Media Manager as well as Global Procurement, defining the approach from a media agency expert perspective and helping to land that with client organisation.AudioVisual esp. TV planning and/or buying experience is key to effectively navigate this role, local market experience or track record of setting up similar guidelines on AV planning / buying from a global angle are preferred. Experience on CPG accounts or knowledge of prevailing marketing industry approaches for the CPG sector will be deemed useful.Who we’re looking for:Values- Ownership: You think like an owner and expect others to do the same.- Accountability: You fully commit to the projects, tasks and workstreams you’re responsible for.- Transparency: You are open and transparent in your communication and decision-making. You justify your decisions and speak up if you hold a critical opinion.- Resilience & Resourcefulness: You are willing to do the good but difficult things in pursuit of the necessary outcomes.- Ambition: You take every task as an opportunity to grow and go from good to great.- Open-mindedness: You analyse and reconcile different points of view to inform your decisions.- Drive for Excellence: You don’t lower the bar for yourself or others - you ask for feedback and evaluate accurately.Abilities- Lateral thinking and ability to detect connecting points, challenges and opportunities across connecting expertise and workflows- Analytical and thorough in understanding challenges and in identifying optimal solution- Decisive and confident in pushing through solutions- Effective and efficient in problem resolving- Accurate and attentive to detail.- Tenacious in doing what’s necessary to achieve goals and push plans through to results.- Self-starter demonstrating initiative and proactiveness.- Collaborative, building and maintaining strong relationships with global & local teams, clients, partners, and media owners.- Effective under pressure, delivering multiple projects, tasks and workstreams on deadlines.- Agile, prioritising what’s urgent and important to achieve the team’s goals.**Skills**:- Solid knowledge of AV media - preferably in planning / buying roles- Client facing experience is favoured- Leadership approach- Project management experience - agency background useful but not exclusively required- Excellent verbal and written communicator.- Confident and passionate presenter.- Culturally aware and comfortable with different local approaches & practices.- Proficient in Excel, W