Director, Investment & Activation

Omnicom Media Group • New York, NY

298d • $90,000 - $160,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

PHD is a global communications planning and media buying agency network delivering smart strategic thinking and creative innovation for the world's leading brands. Brilliant media thinking is in our DNA. A culture of thought-leadership, creativity and innovation has seen us grow from a challenger agency in the UK, to a global leader with over 6,000 employees in over 100 offices worldwide. We combine the latest industry insight with the best creative minds to produce planning innovation and create award-winning work for some of the world's largest advertisers. Finding a better way is our ethos and sums up how we approach everything - from a new client brief to the way we work.

Requirements

• Management Experience.
• Bachelor's degree.
• 5-10 years in a management role; must be comfortable managing a team of 20+ employees.
• Must love managing and leading a team of passionate and dedicated media professionals across digital areas.
• Meeting with senior leaders to understand and facilitate client, agency and business requests.
• Understanding of client/agency finance process; client billing and employee hours/pacing against business scope.
• Must follow agency process to support/push continued adherence to facilitate workflow and manage expectations.
• Media Experience: 7+ years digital buying.
• Must have a strong understanding of the digital marketplace with regard to rates, digital buying models, negotiation, programmatic, content development, content syndication and contract execution.
• Initiating, negotiating, and maintaining vendor commitment levels and contracts across agency and/or client portfolio.
• Knowledge in Comscore, DFA, Adviews, eMarketer is non-negotiable.
• Must be proficient in media terminology, media math, and reach and frequency calculations.
• Committed to and delivers client service.
• Professional presence.
• Resourceful and analytical thinker.
• Must be willing and able to manage, motivate, define, execute, and deliver.
• Excellent presentation skills: Conveys thoughts, ideas, feelings and decisions in a clear, concise and appropriate manner.
• Demonstrates both good verbal and written skills.
• Is a good listener.

Responsibilities

• Action Innovative: Brings creative ideas that meet needs, solves problems, and drives the business strategy.
• Can manage the creative process and facilitate brainstorming.
• Open to the ideas of others. Can project how potential ideas may play out in the marketplace.
• Interaction Opportunity Focused: Identifies opportunities to increase individual and organizational performance or results by consistently looking at ways to make things better.
• Remains solution-oriented even in the face of disappointment and adversity.
• Leadership Strategic: Considers a broad business context for the development of challenging and realistic goals.
• Creates a direction for the organization and devises the plans for short-term and long-term vitality, growth, and success.
• Environmental Awareness: Understands industry trends and their potential impact on our organization.
• Maintains a stable of sources for real-time information that can affect our industry and our company.
• Knows our position in the marketplace and works to exploit it.
• Personal Impact Self-Awareness: Demonstrates a realistic knowledge of self - strengths and weaknesses.
• Is self-confident and true to their convictions, yet open to alternative perspectives and constructive feedback.
• Able to control their state of mind and mood by keeping disruptive emotions and impulses in check while maintaining an ability to work in a productive manner.
• Management Planning and Organization: Creates a plan that organizes and aligns resources to accomplish objectives within an established timeline.
• Handles unanticipated events and situations effectively by having an alternative plan of action.
• Efficiently manages multiple demands and competing priorities.
• Judgment: Intelligently manages the reward/risk ratio.
• Takes responsibility for making timely and well-analyzed decisions.
• Confirms conclusions and takes actions based upon the facts, available resources and our organizational goals and values.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• 401(k)
• Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
• Vacation days
• Sick days
• Personal days
• Paid parental leave
• Paid medical leave
• STD/LTD insurance benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree