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With exceptional talent, trusted data and intelligence, and world-class partnerships - all united by our pioneering agentic marketing platform, WPP Open - we help clients navigate change, capture opportunity, and deliver transformational growth.\nWPP Media is WPP's AI-driven media operating unit, bringing together media, data, and partnerships to deliver creative personalisation at scale. Connected through WPP Open and powered by Open Intelligence, clients see exactly where, how, and why their media investment is working.\nFor more information, visit wppmedia.com.\n3654 - Associate Director, Video - UK\nRole Summary and Impact\nWe’re looking for an AV Account Director to lead best-in-class AV planning and buying across a portfolio of clients, predominantly Nationwide, Audible and JML.\nThe role is central to delivering market-leading AV strategy across TV, BVOD/VOD, Cinema and YouTube, ensuring excellence across both agency and client investment objectives. Working closely with senior internal stakeholders and client teams, this person will build strong, credible relationships, lead responses to briefs, oversee the delivery of campaigns with rigour and integrity, and help shape future-facing AV recommendations that drive growth for clients.\nThis role requires a strong AV practitioner with excellent planning and buying expertise, commercial acumen, and confident leadership skills. The successful candidate will be responsible for maintaining high standards of output across the team, ensuring strong day-to-day account leadership, and helping push AV recommendations from good to great through audience insight, innovation and joined-up thinking.\nResponsibilities of the role include:\nLeading AV planning and buying across clients such as Nationwide, Audible and JML.\nDelivering best-in-class implementational planning across TV, BVOD/VOD/Online Video, and Cinema.\nOwning responses to client briefs and ensuring clear, insight-led storytelling underpinned by data and audience understanding.\nOverseeing the day-to-day investment process for clients, ensuring a sharp and highly efficient approach to value, quality and delivery.\nBuilding strong senior client relationships, while maintaining a close connection with day-to-day client contacts.\nSupporting and developing direct reports through clear roles, stretching goals and engaging career paths.\nManaging the AV planning and buying team for your brands with an inclusive leadership style and clear direction.\nWorking closely with relevant accountability and investment stakeholders to ensure the highest quality delivery in the most commercially beneficial way.\nMaintaining close oversight of buying output, with expert judgement on plans and the wider AV marketplace.\nEnsuring contractual commitments, campaign delivery standards and client guarantees are met.\nDriving innovation across AV output, including future-facing activation opportunities in addressable TV, video and audio.\nProactively forging strong relationships with media owners to unlock opportunities for clients.\nContributing to new business pitches and supporting the transition of new clients where required.\nSkills and Experience\nAt WPP Media, we believe in the power of our culture and our people. It’s what elevates us to deliver exceptional experiences for both our clients and each other. In this role it will be critical to embrace WPP & WPP Media’s shared core values:\nBe Extraordinary by Leading Collectively to Inspire transformational Creativity.\nCreate an Open environment by Balancing People and Client Experiences by Cultivating Trust.\nLead Optimistically by Championing Growth and Development to Mobilize the Enterprise.\nKey skills and experience required:\n\nStrong AV planning and buying experience across TV, BVOD/VOD, Online Video, and Cinema.\nA deep understanding of audience planning and the ability to translate insight into effective AV recommendations.\nStrong marketplace knowledge, ensuring you’re on top of all relevant industry headlines, viewing trends, content and developments\nKnowledge and experience with key AV tools and booking systems including (but not limited to) MediaExplorer, DDS, AdvantEdge, techedge, Caria, Prisma and Adwords.\nProven experience leading client accounts and building trusted senior client relationships.\nExperience managing and developing teams, with a clear and inclusive leadership style.\nA track record of delivering against client targets, guarantees and investment commitments.\nCommercially aware, with strong attention to detail across buying quality, value delivery and financial forecasting.\nStrong understanding of measurement across AV channels, alongside current market challenges and solutions.\nComfortable handling complex situations, resolving conflict and proposing clear solutions.\nEffective delegation and strong team management skills.\nConfident presenter with the ability to communicate clearly and persuasively to both internal and external stakeholders.\nStrong negotiator with the ability to influence across clients, media owners and internal teams.\nProactive, collaborative and pitch-ready, with a future-focused mindset and appetite for innovation.\nLife at WPP Media & Benefits\nOur passion for shaping the next era of media includes investing in our employees to help them do their best work, and we’re just as committed to employee growth as we are to responsible media investment. WPP Media employees can tap into the global WPP Media & WPP networks to pursue their passions, grow their networks, and learn at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising. We have a variety of employee resource groups and host frequent in-office events showcasing team wins, sharing thought leadership, and celebrating holidays and milestone events. Our benefits include competitive medical, group retirement plans, vision, and dental insurance, significant paid time off, preferential partner discounts, and employee mental health awareness days. \nWPP Media is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.\nWe believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. 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