Associate Director, Integrated Media Planning

Associate Director, Integrated Media Planning

Agency: Omd

Job Function: Media

Job Subfunction: Media Planning and Buying

Location: New York; Salary: $110,000.00-$120,000.00

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of media planning experience with strong agency background
• Worked with clients in the travel vertical, ideally with both national and local experience
• Understanding of the sports landscape and integration opportunities
• Track record of cultivating and maintaining trusted client relationships
• Proven leadership ability and experience managing others; a strong desire and capability to grow and develop talent
• Hands‑on media practitioner with the ability to create and execute a full funnel, omnichannel approach to planning
• Firm understanding on how to build and bring to life audience‑first paid media strategies & the appropriate tools and inputs to support data‑driven recommendations
• Advanced knowledge of media fundamentals (all channels) with a connection to performance (brand and performance) and an ability to train and educate more junior team members
• Expert level media math skills
• Compelling and persuasive written and verbal communicator and presenter. Knows how to reach a compromise when necessary.
• Strong comfort level with data, analytics, and measurement
• Experience collaborating with media owners, agency business units and creative agency partners in an integrated manner
• Comfortable working in a fast‑paced, dynamic environment

Responsibilities

• Lead day‑to‑day operations of the Integrated Media Planning function, integrating with broader OMD teams, creative partners, media owners to meet and exceed client objectives
• Serve as key point of contact for client teams to streamline requests and coordinate workstreams
• Craft data‑driven, full‑funnel paid media strategies and end‑to‑end experiences that deliver business results based on a deep understanding of the consumer
• Develop client presentations and templates for POVs and recommendations
• Coordinate with peers to ensure consistency in ways of working (process, tools & platforms, people)
• Partner with creative, OMG comms planning and client teams to marry creative and media strategies for an integrated and holistic consumer experience
• Issue and present paid media recommendations & POVs to increase efficiencies and effectiveness of media plans as indicated by performance reporting, learning agendas, and consumer trends
• Maintain positive team culture and working environment
• Manage resources & help team members prioritize work
• Accountable for planning teamwork including QAing budgets and media math as relevant

Equal Employment Opportunity

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