Senior Director, Integrated Investment

Adelphi Group•New York, NY

1d•$120,000 - $230,000•Hybrid

About The Position

This role requires a Senior Director of Integrated Investment with extensive experience in media buying and team leadership. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing a large team of media professionals, understanding client and agency financial processes, and ensuring adherence to agency workflows. A deep knowledge of the media marketplace, including digital buying models, negotiation strategies, programmatic, social, video, content development, and contract execution, is essential. Proficiency in media terminology, math, and calculations like reach and frequency is also required. The role demands strong leadership, strategic thinking, environmental awareness of industry trends, self-awareness, effective planning and organization, and sound judgment in decision-making. The position is based within Omnicom, with a policy requiring a minimum of three days in the office per week, unless otherwise directed by agency or manager. Omnicom is committed to fostering inclusive teams and celebrating diversity.

Requirements

7+ years in a management role.
12+ years media buying experience.
Strong understanding of the media marketplace with regard to rates, digital buying models, negotiation, programmatic, social, video, content development, content syndication and contract execution.
Knowledge in Comscore, DFA, Adviews, eMarketer is non-negotiable.
Proficient in media terminology, media math, and reach and frequency calculations.
Committed to and delivers client service, professional presence, resourceful and analytical thinker.
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.

Responsibilities

Manage and lead a large team of passionate and dedicated media professionals across media channels.
Meet with senior leaders to understand and facilitate client, agency, and business requests.
Understand client/agency finance processes, including client billing and employee hours/pacing against business scope.
Follow agency processes to support and push continued adherence, facilitating workflow and managing expectations.
Initiate, negotiate, and maintain vendor commitment levels and contracts across agency and/or client portfolio.
Bring creative ideas that meet needs, solve problems, and drive business strategy.
Manage the creative process and facilitate brainstorming.
Project how potential ideas may play out in the marketplace.
Identify opportunities to increase individual and organizational performance or results by consistently looking for ways to make things better.
Remain solution-oriented even in the face of disappointment and adversity.
Consider a broad business context for the development of challenging and realistic goals.
Create a direction for the organization and devise plans for short-term and long-term vitality, growth, and success.
Understand industry trends and their potential impact on the organization.
Maintain a stable of sources for real-time information that can affect the industry and the company.
Know the organization's position in the marketplace and work to exploit it.
Demonstrate a realistic knowledge of self – strengths and weaknesses.
Be self-confident and true to convictions, yet open to alternative perspectives and constructive feedback.
Control state of mind and mood by keeping disruptive emotions and impulses in check while maintaining an ability to work in a productive manner.
Create a plan that organizes and aligns resources to accomplish objectives within an established timeline.
Handle unanticipated events and situations effectively by having an alternative plan of action.
Efficiently manage multiple demands and competing priorities.
Intelligently manage the reward/risk ratio.
Take responsibility for making timely and well-analyzed decisions.