Agency:
Carmichael Lynch

Job Function:
Media

Job Subfunction:
Media Planning and Buying

Job Description:
Role:
This role leads and monitors day to day client activities and manages workloads to established timelines. This role also provides a tactical voice to the client in order to maintain and refine overall strategies. The media supervisor is also responsible for identification of problems/challenges and developing strategies to address them.

In addition, this role is responsible to support business improvement by meeting personal and departmental goals and objectives timely and effectively.

Areas of Focus:
Day-to-day responsibilities of the media supervisor include but are not limited to:

Disciplined Business Leader
Decisive and insightful in forming strategies to meet client objectives
Demonstrates thorough understanding of client business and how to achieve results
Understands client objectives, resources, and pros/cons of approaches to address them
Fulfills role on team seamlessly, working and managing with urgency
Demonstrates initiative to learn business planning from supervisors

Media Innovator
Applies industry change in evolving approach for client business
Proactively seeks to redefine status quo with media partners and clients
Leverages insights regarding target consumer and media's role in communications
Teaches media concepts, application, and Media philosophy to reports
Proactively measures activity to continually improve client results
Demonstrates initiative to learn systems and resources of department and agency

Team Leader
Effectively manages client, vendor, and internal relationships in and across departments
Effectively manages a team to ensure work is high quality and on time
Leverages working relationships with outside vendors toward client benefits
Maintains a professional, can-do attitude at all times
Encourages and rewards initiative among direct reports
Provides professional and discipline mentorship to grow career of reports
Maintains effective communication-- effectively managing up, across, and down
Contributes to a positive departmental and agency culture

Qualifications/Traits:

Education:
A bachelor's degree in a related field.

Skills and Experience:
6-8 years of media strategy (current title should be senior media planner or greater).
Digital experience preferred.
Experience managing multiple clients, multiple departmental teams.
Exposure to planning all media channels, both nationally and locally.
Exposure and experience with business analytics.
Solid experience delivering programs from hypothetical to flawless real world execution.
Robust negotiation skills and experience with multi-media integrated packages.

Competencies
Solid attention to detail
Substantial collaboration skills
Ability to handle multiple tasks
Superior communication skills
Substantial verbal and written presentation skills
Passionate and professional
Authentic team player
Strong respect for the creative process and product
Ability to contribute unique and original thinking and solutions
Active listener
Ability to manage and prioritize personal workload effectively
Results-oriented, with a commitment to accountability
Strength in dealing with change
Approachability
Ability to manage up well
Conveys integrity and trustThe salary range for this position is listed below. Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on a variety of factors, including but not limited to budget, relevant experience, qualifications, and tenure in similar roles. Consideration may also be given to internal salary data for current or former employees in the same or similar positions.

Salary Range: $80,000 - 90,000 annually

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.