Agency:
Omnicom Media

Job Function:
Media

Job Subfunction:
Media Planning and Buying

Job Description:
Position Overview
As Director, Communications Design you are designing the blueprint for cultural ideas to spread through communications planning excellence, integration and growth performance on your clients and brands. In your role you are translating the communications strategy into the actionable idea platform (in junction with creative partners) that will deliver behavioral change at all connection points. Creating innovative connections that grow brands is a passion for you.
You will partner with the Strategy team on the Connections Architecture and utilize your experience & skills to manage the design of fully integrated communications plans across owned, earned, and paid connections. You work closely with the analytics leads to identify appropriate audience and data strategies to unlock growth. You lead the relationship with SBUs and client agencies roster throughout the design stages and work with the Partnerships team in evaluating & selecting the right partners, and appropriate spends across the Communications Design blueprint.

Responsibilities
Oversee client education program around communications design relevant marketplace trends.
Present the communications design idea and recommendation to the client in collaboration with Client Leadership, Strategy and Partnerships
Oversee the day-to-day requirements and workflow of the client as it relates to Communications Design outputs, in consultation with Client Leads
In charge of the communications design brief deployment and relevant stakeholder engagement (Specialty Business Units, partnerships, partner agencies, media)
Lead ideation sessions and curate outcomes
Develop the communications idea all connections will help unlock
Effectively design communications architecture and ecosystem delivery across Owned, Earned, Shared, Paid (OESP) for your clients. Within the team, must ensure communications plans move far beyond paid, and are unified by a clear idea and communications behavior
Integrate Specialty Business Units activities within every relevant brief, in line with business goals
Implement communications design deliverables as part of client business development & growth strategy

Required Skills and Experience
Experience in an integrated planning role in media, publisher / vendor, or communications discipline (digital, content)
Ability to delegate and oversee direct reports
Proven ability to develop and maintain strong professional relationships with senior clients, colleagues, and vendors
Strong time management and organizational skills
Experience/involvement in new business planning and strong presentations skills
Required PC proficiency and solid working knowledge of Microsoft Office (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.)

Desired Skills and Experience
8+ years relevant experience with 4+ years of experience managing or developing staff
Category or audience experience as relevant per assignment
Proven problem-solving ability
Ability to work successfully within a team, handling multiple projects and meeting tight deadlines under pressure
Prior experience working on a pharmaceutical account130,000.00 - 150,000.00

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.

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