Group Director, Communications Design

Agency: Omnicom Media Job Function: Media Job Subfunction: Media Planning and Buying Job Description:

Overview   As Group Director, Communications Design you are at the forefront of bringing the next generation of planning to life. As the Design leader of your client group, you are ensuring the adoption and adherence of communications design principles across your client base, ensuring your team consistently delivers best in class idea led, culturally empowered communications ecosystems that drive effectiveness.

Act as lead design counsel for clients at key periods ( e.g. annual planning) or across key projects (eg. New launches)    Responsible for communications design product excellence across major planning initiatives across designated client base    Lead the team’s adoption of best-in-class communications design approaches and innovation, and adherence to planning process    Oversee collaboration with external partners (creative agency), and internal strategy and partnerships teams through the planning process to ensure creative excellence, strategic fit and commercial feasibility of the Connections Design approach    Oversight of connections architecture development, analytics strategy and ecosystem delivery across owned, earned, shared & paid (OESP)    Responsible for best-in-class quality and consistency of every output from the communications design client team they oversee, in line with the communications design discipline vision    Responsible for ensuring profitable integration of Specialty Business Unit (SBU) leadership within design team    Oversee opportunities to grow scope to appropriate communications design staffing levels and up-leveled talent on client assignments    Manage the product outcomes for new business efforts across pitches for Communications Design resource, including casting talent, running brainstorms, integrating with partnerships & SBU’s on   Required Skills and Experience   Experience in an integrated planning role in media, publisher / vendor, or communications discipline (digital, content)    Experience with high budget clients that participate in the linear video and CTV Upfront   Skilled at utilizing tools for optimizations   Excellent communication skills both written and verbal    Proven ability to develop and maintain high level professional relationships with senior clients, colleagues and vendors    Strong organizational, analytical and leadership skills   Strong experience/involvement in new business planning and presentations skills   Initiative does not require candidates to have a college degree   Desired Skills and Experience    10+ years relevant experience with 5+ years leading, managing and motivating a team    Category or audience experience as relevant per assignment    Ability to lead strategic thinking for integrated marketing communication plans encompassing traditional and non-traditional media strategies    Ability to ensure consistency and best practices across all projects; strong project management skills    Ability to assess client needs for utilization and development of planning and research tools and resources    Prior experience working on a pharmaceutical client 

 $175,000 - $215,000 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