Agency:Omnicom Media
Job Function:Media
Job Subfunction: Media Planning and Buying
Job Description:Position SummaryWe are seeking a dynamic Manager, Communications Design to lead a high-performing team. As the Manager, Comms Design you will play a pivotal role in crafting context-rich analysis to inform decisions that drive impact across multiple Lines of Business.
You will be responsible for leading workstreams (with the support of your Director and Group Director) that deliver innovative media strategies while ensuring seamless coordination across multiple stakeholders and crafting compelling stories that resonate with executive-level audiences.
This is an excellent opportunity for a media expert who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative and high exposure environment. If you want to push the standard conventions of media planning, you have come to the right place. We work to shape the future state.
Responsibilities- Lead a dedicated media team in the development, execution, and optimization of multi-channel media strategies.
- Use data and analytics to drive strategic media planning and decision-making, ensuring connectivity across business goals, media choices and measurable KPIs.
- Collaborate across craft teams (strategy, planning, partnerships, business leadership) and external partners (media vendors, agencies, etc.) to build insightful, data-rich artifacts/presentations that inform big and small business decisions.
- Oversees centralized Budget Management efforts ensuring timely, accurate and consistent delivery on a recurring cadence.
- Deliver clear and concise performance reports and competitive analysis that connect context with results in a compelling narrative.
- Stay up to date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to ensure campaigns remain innovative and effective.
- Foster a collaborative, high-performance team culture focused on delivering excellence, growth, and development for team members.
Required Skills & Experience- Experience in Media Planning, Audience Insights, Analytics, Strategy or Communications disciplines
- Media planning skills must be sufficient and able to be taught to junior team members
- Ability to delegate, develop and oversee direct reports
- Excellent written, verbal communication and presentation skills
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
- Effortlessly detail-oriented
- Proactively takes action to support the team with limited guidance when deadlines do not allow for tasks to be specifically broken down
- Initiative does not require candidates to have a college degree
Desired Skills & Experience- 4+ years relevant experience with 1+ years of experience in managing or developing staff
- Category or audience experience as relevant per assignment
- Strong time-management and organizational skills
- Proven problem-solving ability
- Comfortability organizing data and developing compelling graphs
- Patience and diligence deriving insights from data and craft both simple and complex narratives to fulfill a purpose or decision
$85,000.00 - $90,000.00
Omnicom's policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom's corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.
Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we're focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us-we look forward to getting to know you. We will process your personal data in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice.
Link to Recruitment Privacy Notice: https://www.omc.com/privacy-notice
