Associate Media Director

6 days ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Omnicom Media Group Full time
Job Description

This is an exciting and rare opportunity for someone to join our vibrant and rapidly growing team as an Associate Director in Media accountability.

Global Investment at Omnicom Media Group

team is a dedicated unit to drive value creation and monitor and deliver media buying commitments to our well established and growing client base. It is built around experienced media traders, auditors and analysts whose job is to share and apply best practice across our global network and ensure that our clients always receive the best media value and guidance.

The team play a vital role quantifying and tracking media buying performance across all Omnicom Media Group markets for global clients. We strive to define new ways of measuring media value to ensure we continue to lead the industry in this area.

Your principal responsibilities will include:

  • Manage team and take responsibility for their output, development, and efficiency of work including support with tracking and auditing issues and managing their workloads. This will also include 1-1's with direct reports for their career and personal development.
  • Overseeing your team's results and help them to gather insights and context from local markets.
  • Support Business Director and Global Investment Director (GID) with client relationships.
  • Update Business Director weekly and GID monthly with status of various accounts in your portfolio.
  • Deliver client commitments, proactively raising issues with GID for support as necessary.
  • Assist Directors in identifying opportunities to recommend use of media products across client portfolio.
  • Develop and leverage strong relationships with the senior global trading community, external media auditors like Ebiquity and MediaSense and our clients.
  • Support team on global pitches working with senior OMG management and markets ensuring submissions reflect OMG trading policies.
  • Identify best practice to assist and advise local markets on strategies to achieve buying commitments as well as updating global account teams on results.
  • Support senior management in developing the products and outputs of the Global team – improving processes, efficient reporting methods etc.
  • Weekly face to face meetings with your team.
  • Work with systems like Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and sometimes Tableau and GMP365.

Your success will be measured based on your people leadership skills (training, mentoring, and developing your direct report(s)), your ability to resolve issues that arise independently or identify appropriate escalation routes. You will be viewed as an expert, showing mastery of methodologies, improvement of processes and development of quality control systems. You proactively lead projects and design processes and practices that enable your team and markets to drive value. You deputise for the Business Director in some situations and support the director to inspire, motivate and lead the team.

Desired Skills & Experience

  • Very strong understanding and interest in media measurement metrics, KPIs and market pricing dynamics across all media
  • Strong working knowledge of external auditors practice, methods, methodology in at least one market (preferably multi-market)
  • Enquiring mind that wants to push boundaries and create new approaches.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills, able to explain complicated concepts with clarity and develop strong working relationships with all stakeholders.
  • Experience of supervising or managing team members
  • International media experience ideal but not essential
  • Experience gained in either a local market agency buying team (any medium), at a media auditor, at a media vendor or within an International Media Investment/Trading/Accountability team.
  • Excellent attention to detail & well established organisational and analytical skills
  • You will be highly numerate, skilled in value methodology and highly competent on excel.

In return we will provide an international, fun working environment working in which you will have the opportunity to work on high profile blue-chip global clients and develop your media career.

Our Network

Omnicom Media Group is the media services division of Omnicom Group Inc., the leading global advertising, marketing and corporate communications company, providing services to over 5,000 clients in more than 100 countries.

We offer unparalleled representation in the marketplace, as well as a depth of capabilities and experience to drive leadership and innovation in every media type

The company may make changes to your duties from time to time to meet the changing needs of our business. The above stated job guideline is intended to be a broad depiction of your duties rather than a comprehensive list of activities.

Employee benefits

We offer pension contributions, life insurance, health insurance, a generous holiday entitlement as well as mental health recharge days where we shut the whole 18 floors for 2 days a year, one in Spring and one in Autumn and many other employee benefits for all. We have an enhanced maternity leave, shared parental leave, paternity leave pay policy. When you are in office you can take advantage of a £5 a day canteen contribution, a brand-new modern office, and a healthy working environment.

Flexible Working

We are committed to supporting and helping have a great work/life balance and a positive attitude to well-being. As part of this, we have a flexible and hybrid working model as a core part of how we operate.

We believe flexible & hybrid working can increases individual motivation, improves performance and productivity, and reduces stress as well as helping manage wellbeing generally. We will work with you to implement the best flexible working solution for you without compromising team performance and client delivery.

Diversity

We are focused on equality and believe deeply in diversity & inclusion of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different.

We welcome remarkable people from a broad range of backgrounds who bring their diverse attitudes, opinions, and beliefs into a culture where you are treated with respect and can be comfortable at work just being you. Embracing our differences results in a stimulating and inspiring environment which will lead to everyone viewing the world, our work and each other with fresh eyes.

We are keen to encourage applicants from people from all walks of life and we want you to be at your best throughout the recruitment process, please discuss any specific adjustments with a member of the People team.

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