Agency:
Omnicom Media
Job Function:
Media
Job Subfunction:
Media Planning and Buying
Job Description:
Optimum Sports Assocaite Director, Investment,
Overview
The Associate Director reports to a Director within a vertical team structure. He/she will have marketplace, interagency and client facing responsibilities
Responsibilities
- Maintain client relationships where applicable
- Contribute to new business efforts including research, ideation, pricing, and presenting
- Analyze, identify, and realize compelling insights and trends and apply those to buy executions
- Elevate strategic thinking at all levels, inspiring and creating new ideas that permeate across our people
- Meet with media sales reps and industry representatives on a regular basis to pursue ideas that are strategically aligned with the client's business and needs
- Works in direct cooperation with respective strategy teams
- Interacts with members of other SBU's as the respective disciplines of those SBU's are pertinent to proposed and executed media investments and sponsorship marketing strategies
- Develop expertise and serve in an advisory capacity on all emerging TV trends (i.e., Programmatic, Addressable, OTT)
- Provide oversight to junior level and supervisory staff by providing oversight to their buys and aiding them in identifying insights and trends
- Lead multiple projects concurrently, while prioritizing the most important, right-fit opportunities at hand
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
- 5-7 years' experience as a member of a Local Video Investment team
- Track record of negotiating complex strategic partnership agreements
- Proficient in analyzing and interpreting data and insights to help drive and inform meaningful insights
- Strong business acumen and interpersonal skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations
- Highly effective mentor, motivator, and leader of junior level staff
- Strength in relationship development and management, as it pertains to clients, partners, and coworkers
- Able to hit and exceed targeted goals and deliverables as agreed upon
- Drive to be proactive and bring their informed point of view to deliver the highest quality of work
- Ability to develop ideas independently and thrive in a fast-paced environment
Preferred Qualifications
- Understanding of Sports/Media business models preferred
- Experience working in related role in the sports/media industry
- A personal passion for sports and/or media technology
- Background within the Television & Digital buying systems, not required, but a plus (can be but not limited to DDS & Prisma)
$70,000-$125,000
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