Agency:

Job Function:

Media

Job Subfunction:

Media Planning and Buying

Job Description:

Position Overview

As Manager, 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.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute strategic cross-channel communications plans for client assignments in conjunction with internal agency specialty teams

Supervise development and implementation of targeted, innovative media solutions consistent with media strategies

Leverage performance and measurement insights to inform plan recommendations and optimizations

Create external briefing documents aligned with plan parameters, objectives and strategies

Using syndicated research, pull and compile category trends, audience consumption, partner data and competitive activity, to derive strategic trends and insights to inform partner consideration set and channel mix

Develop relationships and meet with media partners to share client objectives and priorities and stay up to date on latest offerings

Keep on top of everchanging media landscape to identify relevant opportunities/solutions and develop POVs

Leverage planning best practices, media acumen, and understanding of client business to steward planning recommendations and conversations

Prepare and deliver dynamic presentations to showcase how recommendation meets client brief, objectives, and measurement expectations

Required Skills and Experience

Confident presentation skills in internal and client meetings

Mastery of syndicated research sources, planning tools, and media math

Solutions driven with strong trouble shooting skills

Excellent written and verbal skills

Well organized and manages timelines with others

Strong knowledge of industry trends and planning/measurement models

Understanding of marketing and communications process

Ability to work autonomously and in a group

UM does not require candidates to have a college degree

Desired Skills and Experience

3-5 years of experience in media planning with knowledge of across various channels, national/local scope (to be customized by hiring team)

Skilled knowledge of Microsoft Office (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)

Mastery of campaign management, ad serving technology, third-party market research, and cloud-based collaboration tools such as MediaTools, Prisma/MBOX, DCM, Nielsen Ad Intel, Pathmatics, eTelmar, MRI Simmons, comScore, eMarketer, SharePoint, etc.

Success in managing junior staff and ability to manage up to leadership

$80,000 - $90,000

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.

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