Biddable Business Director (Luxury Brands)

Company: Havas Media
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

As Biddable Business Director you will lead paid social and programmatic work for luxury clients, shaping an integrated biddable proposition across the agency. You’ll mentor a team and collaborate with Client, Data & Engineering, and Product & Investment to deliver best-in-class media delivery. You’ll translate complex solutions into client-ready strategies and drive commercial growth through innovative offerings. This role combines strategic leadership with hands-on execution to elevate performance across channels.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and coach Paid Social and Programmatic teams to deliver integrated, innovative biddable strategies
  • Develop and roll out learning initiatives and best-practice processes across client teams
  • Design and implement biddable products, aligning with cross-functional groups
  • Collaborate with Investment & Trading to meet commercial and quality targets
  • Maintain integrity of audience segmentation from planning to buying and measure outcomes
  • Translate complex biddable solutions for existing and potential clients to support growth
  • Present proactively to promote biddable capabilities internally and externally
  • Drive growth by optimizing investment planning at platform and audience levels and leveraging partnerships
  • Mentor and develop senior team members; lead a group of directors across teams
  • Represent the agency at events and contribute to thought leadership with award-worthy case studies

Key requirements

  • 6+ years of leadership experience in Paid Social and/or Programmatic
  • Strong planning, trading, and operational experience
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Ability to articulate complex concepts simply and effectively
  • Strong storytelling and presentation abilities
  • In-depth knowledge of Paid Social and Programmatic tools and audience insight approaches
  • Analytical approach to data interpretation and decision making
  • Proficiency in MS Office (PowerPoint, Word, Excel)
  • strong leadership
  • clear communicator
  • storytelling
  • Paid Social
  • Programmatic
  • audience planning

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Posted: October 1st, 2026