ACCOUNT MANAGER

22 Minutes ago • 2-4 Years
Account Management

Job Description

As an Account Manager at Havas Life Paris, you will be the operational and strategic link between client needs, creative ideas, and project delivery. You will manage day-to-day client communications, oversee project workflows, and collaborate with internal teams across account, creative, medical, and strategy to ensure project excellence from concept to completion. This role requires a highly organized, proactive individual comfortable working in English within a fast-paced global environment, embracing AI-powered tools for efficiency.
Good To Have:
  • Anticipate client needs and recommend new solutions.
  • Support cross-market coordination.
  • Promote collaborative and AI-powered tools.
  • Assist with forecasting, billing, and monthly reconciliations.
  • Support pitches, proposals, and new business opportunities.
  • Contribute ideas and insights to client growth discussions.
  • Begin mentoring and guiding junior team members.
  • Professional proficiency in French.
  • Experience in health, wellness, or lifestyle sectors.
  • Background or interest in health, wellness, or lifestyle communications.
Must Have:
  • Serve as the day-to-day client contact.
  • Translate client needs into actionable briefs.
  • Ensure deliverables meet timelines, budgets, and quality.
  • Manage and track project progress from concept to delivery.
  • Partner with creative, strategic, and medical teams.
  • Coordinate review cycles, status updates, and approvals.
  • Support account leadership in preparing estimates, scopes of work, and budgets.
  • Monitor hours, deliverables, and spend to ensure projects remain on budget.
  • 2-4 years of experience in an integrated or creative agency environment.
  • Experience managing client relationships and project delivery.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
  • Strong understanding of agency workflows and cross-functional collaboration.
  • Proficient in project management and collaboration tools.
  • Skilled in PowerPoint and presentation storytelling.
  • Financial awareness with ability to manage project budgets.
  • Highly organized and detail-oriented with strong multitasking skills.
  • Curious, proactive, and comfortable exploring and applying AI-powered tools.
  • Confident, diplomatic, and solutions-oriented communicator.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in communications, marketing, business, or related field.
Perks:
  • Located in the heart of Havas Village France: 29/30 Quai de Dion Bouton - 92800 Puteaux.
  • Permanent / Labor agreement: Advertising contract.
  • Comfortable, modern premises.
  • Cafeteria with Starbucks offers.
  • 25 days of paid vacation + 12 RTT (days off) + 3 days offered by the agency per year.
  • Numerous benefits thanks to the Havas group (agency/team evening, concierge service, inspiring conferences, integrated gym & sports activities, afterwork, cinema premieres, etc.).

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We are Havas Life Paris.

We are part of the largest health advertising and communications organization in the world. We are individuals, each bringing unique stories and life experience, who share the same ambition: making a meaningful difference to the health & wellness of people and the community.

Our partners are brands that are obsessed with improving the lives of people. From oncology to rare diseases, to public & animal health — we craft brand platforms, campaigns, and activations that push health conversations forward.

Your role in our Global Team

As Account Manager, you are the operational and strategic connector between client needs, creative ideas, and project delivery.

You ensure that every project runs smoothly, every brief is clear, and every relationship is nurtured with care and professionalism.

You will manage day-to-day client communications, oversee project workflows, and partner with internal teams across account, creative, medical, and strategy to ensure excellence from concept to completion.

This is a role for someone who is highly organized, proactive, and comfortable working in English within a fast-paced global environment. You will also embrace the use of AI-powered tools to optimize efficiency, collaboration, and creativity across global workstreams.

You will report to the Account Director, collaborating closely with the Project Manager and other team members in Paris and across global markets.

Your missions, if you accept this worldly challenge.

Client and Project Management :

  • Serve as the day-to-day client contact, maintaining clear communication and ensuring client satisfaction.
  • Translate client needs and feedback into actionable briefs for internal teams.
  • Ensure all deliverables meet timelines, budgets, and quality standards.
  • Manage and track the progress of projects from concept through delivery.
  • Anticipate client needs and proactively recommend new solutions or opportunities.

Internal Coordination :

  • Partner closely with creative, strategic, and medical teams to ensure alignment on project objectives.
  • Coordinate review cycles, status updates, and approvals to keep all stakeholders informed.
  • Support cross-market coordination, ensuring consistency in messaging and delivery across regions.
  • Promote the use of collaborative and AI-powered tools to enhance team efficiency and communication.

Financial and Administrative Management :

  • Support account leadership in preparing estimates, scopes of work, and budgets.
  • Monitor hours, deliverables, and spend to ensure projects remain on budget.
  • Assist with forecasting, billing, and monthly reconciliations.

Growth and Team Contribution :

  • Support pitches, proposals, and new business opportunities as needed.
  • Contribute ideas and insights to client growth discussions and planning.
  • Begin mentoring and guiding junior team members (such as Account Executives or Project Coordinators).
  • Uphold Havas’ values of curiosity, collaboration, and creativity in every interaction.

We've imagined your profile.

Could this be you?

Skills & Experience :

  • 2-4 years of experience in an integrated or creative agency environment
  • Experience managing client relationships and project delivery, ideally in the health, wellness, or lifestyle sectors
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English (mandatory); professional proficiency in French is a plus
  • Strong understanding of agency workflows and cross-functional collaboration
  • Proficient in project management and collaboration tools (Teamwork, Monday.com, Microsoft Office Suite)
  • Skilled in PowerPoint and presentation storytelling
  • Financial awareness with the ability to manage and monitor project budgets
  • Highly organized and detail-oriented with strong multitasking skills
  • Curious, proactive, and comfortable exploring and applying AI-powered tools to enhance efficiency, creativity, and delivery
  • Confident, diplomatic, and solutions-oriented communicator who thrives in a fast-paced environment

Educational background :

  • Bachelor’s (mandatory) or Master’s degree in communications, marketing, business, or a related field
  • Background or interest in health, wellness, or lifestyle communications is a plus.

Would you like to take part in this new challenge? 🎯

First 👉 create your best CV and remember to keep it up to date.

Then, join our team by applying as soon as possible via this advertisement.

Come and enjoy a unique experience with us. 🚀

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Each gathers creative, media, digital, design and activation talent under one roof, allowing us to provide an agile, seamless and integrated service for our clients in each market, while also drawing on the talent and support from villages across the globe.

  • 📍 We're located in the heart of Havas Village France: 29/30 Quai de Dion Bouton - 92800 Puteaux, with a breathtaking view of Paris! 😉
  • 📄 Contract : Permanent / Labor agreement : Advertising
  • 🏡 Comfortable, modern premises when you're at the agency.
  • ☕ Cafeteria with Starbucks offers
  • 🏝️ 25 days of paid vacation + 12 RTT (days off) + 3 days offered by the agency per year
  • 🥳 Numerous benefits thanks to the Havas group (agency/team evening, concierge service, inspiring conferences, integrated gym & sports activities, afterwork, cinema premieres, etc.)

Together, we can make a difference 🌟

You'll be joining a company that guarantees equal opportunities and values diversity.

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Contract Type :

Permanent

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Founded in 1835 by Charles-Louis Havas, Havas is one of the world’s largest global communications groups, with more than 23,000 people in over 100 countries sharing one single mission: to make a meaningful difference to brands, businesses, and people. Havas has developed a fully integrated model covering all communications activities. The teams of the three business units, Creative, Media and Health & You, work together with agility and in perfect synergy to offer clients tailor-made, meaningful, innovative and entertainment-oriented solutions that support them in their positive transformation.

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