About the Role
Lead impactful AV campaigns across TV, BVOD, SVOD, CTV and Cinema while working alongside some of the industry's most experienced investment specialists. This role offers the chance to influence high-profile client campaigns and help drive exceptional business outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Lead AV investment planning and activation across TV, BVOD, SVOD, CTV and Cinema campaigns.
- Inspire and support a team of AV specialists, creating an environment where people can thrive and develop their careers.
- Build strong partnerships with media owners to secure outstanding value and innovative opportunities for clients.
- Collaborate closely with planning and digital investment teams to develop integrated media solutions that deliver measurable impact.
- Use audience insights, market intelligence and industry trends to inform recommendations and enhance campaign performance.
- Oversee campaign delivery from brief through to activation, optimisation and post-campaign review.
- Ensure financial accuracy, audit compliance, KPI achievement and operational excellence across all AV activity.
Requirements
- Strong experience across AV planning and buying, with expertise in TV, BVOD, SVOD, CTV and Cinema.
- Experience leading and developing teams, with a collaborative and supportive management style.
- Excellent client relationship skills, with the confidence to provide strategic recommendations and constructive challenge when appropriate.
- Knowledge of the programmatic video ecosystem and how it complements AV investment strategies.
- Experience managing financial processes, purchase orders and campaign investment with a high degree of accuracy.
- Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage diverse stakeholders effectively.
- Curiosity about the evolving media landscape and a passion for identifying new opportunities that create value for clients.
Skills
- AV planning
- AV buying
- TV
- BVOD
- SVOD
- CTV
- Cinema
- Team leadership
- Team development
- Client relationship management
- Strategic recommendations
- Programmatic video
- Financial process management
- Purchase order management
- Campaign investment management
- Communication skills
- Presentation skills
- Stakeholder engagement
Work Type
- Office-based (4 days per week)
Benefits
- Pension
- Life Assurance
- Private Medical cover
- Reflection Days
- Shared Parental Leave
- Inclusive Benefits
- Employee Action Groups
About the Company
- We help brands make BOLD MOVES.
- Zenith helps brands make BOLD MOVES. Bold moves are big, brave changes to media strategy, delivering more impact for brands and more value for consumers.
- At Zenith UK, we believe that fostering an inclusive culture where all talent can thrive makes our company stronger.
- We are committed to Publicis Groupe’s wide variety of talent engagement and inclusion programming, and encourage our people to take an active role in continuing to drive positive change within our agency.
Equal Opportunity
- At Zenith UK, we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer.
- We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion or belief, disability, age, citizenship, relationship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected characteristic.
- We are committed to providing a fair, accessible, and inclusive recruitment process.
- If you have any access needs - for example, related to disability, neurodivergence, or a health condition - please let us know. We’ll work with you to ensure the process works for you.
- Guided by our values, we listen with empathy, uplift each other, take responsibility, and embrace change - building a culture where everyone feels seen, respected, and genuinely included.
