27604-Director, Planning

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

Overview   As Director, Planning, you’ll support the vision and strategic plan for the account, ensuring success across Work Quality, Client Relationships, Financials, and Team Health . You’ll play a key role in planning and executing media strategies integral to their business success and launch industry-leading work that propels the business forward.

Understand client objectives and ensure translation into actionable and measurable media objectives, strategies, and plan KPIs.   Manage and provide team leadership to the media plan process, including ideation formation, presentation, and implementation.   Manage multiple campaigns at a time across multiple channels when needed.   Manage the integration and partnership of internal cross functional SBU partners across client’s business as appropriate.   Work with SBU partners to ensure strategic alignment with performance-based campaigns (Search/Social/Programmatic).   Lead relationships with SBU’s, client agencies and internal teams to evaluate and select the right partners for investment.   Work closely with strategy and analytics to identify appropriate data strategies to promote growth.   Ensure plans deliver upon KPI’s by providing measurement touch bases throughout the campaigns.   Ensure full budget utilization, tracking and stewardship across all reporting markets – based on client specific needs.   Responsible and accountable to the implementation of media plan and deliverables, driving relationship with internal teams and partners including strategy, buying, analytics and SBUs     Required Skills and Experience     Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills   High level of comfort presenting to all levels of clients and internal senior management   Self-Starter, demonstrates initiative   Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously   Thrives in fast paced environment; nimble, flexible, and solution- oriented   Solid awareness of industry trends and planning/measurement models   Ability to incorporate agency tools/practices/ products   UM does not require candidates to have a college degree     Desired Skills and Experience     6-8 years of experience within integrated planning; 3+ years as a people manager   Collaborative mindset; effective at communicating across multiple departments (client, broadcast buying team, analytics team, OOH team, etc.)   Prioritizes mentorship and career development of team   Proven track record with client relations and growing existing business   

 130,000.00 - 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. 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 getting to know you. We will process your personal data in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice. Link to Recruitment Privacy Notice: https://www.omc.com/privacy-notice For US Job Seekers: It is the policy of Omnicom and any of its affiliates to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, ethnic origin, gender, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, disability, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law. EOE/AA/M/D/V/F.