SUMMARY: LEADING OUR CLIENTS INTO THE FUTURE

The Associate Media Directorole is a leadership role as well as a managerial one. The AMD sets the working style for the group, leads the strategic direction and is tasked with being a marketing partner for the clients. They are being primed a Director position, and thus should strive to be the ert the clientssiness, a leader within the agency and liaison between senior management and junior team members. They are also responsible for demonstrating a strong working knowledge of the media space across all channels (including digital media) and can easily identify strategic use cases. From an interpersonal standpoint, they can navigate the balance between client service and fostering a positive and productive team culture.

WHAT THE JOB DEMANDS LANCE OF ART & SCIENCE

Passion: approaches any situation with energy and passion

Critical Thinker: able to identify insights and can defend strategic thinking with data

Creative Thinker: can take a brand, an objective and a platform and think of innovative ways to bring them together

Accountable: stays on top of client deliverables and ensures the team is delivering

Proactive and Entrepreneurial spirit: finds time to identify new opportunities and bring them to life

Collaborative partner: embraces and drives oneOMD approach by building partnerships with others on behalf of clients

Storyteller: can sell through new ideas, ways of thinking /working to senior clients

Problem Solving/diplomacy/coolheaded: clients, partners and even ourselves- are imperfect, but all challenges have solutions. Helping navigate them and/or asking for help from above in a calm manner is key.

Current: displays some passion for pop culture, trends and motivations in consumer behavior

Delegation skills- there lot here. Managing this work takes a team clicking on all cylinders.

Inspires creativity in others/foster an open environment for ideas: challenge the team to solve clients challenges in unique ways- let them try (and fail where necessary)

Hunger for using data: to define strategies, to defend strategies, to uncover new targeting opportunities, to buy more efficiently, to better understand the outcomes we drive for clients.

Hunger for innovation: our clients want and have some access to truly never-been-done-before opportunities. Helping determine the htes and bringing them to life in impactful ways.

Build relationships: be present with clients- at their place, at our place, at home, on the road. The more we mirror them, the more they think we work for their company, not ours.

Build relationships with media owners: have an understanding of major platforms

Qualifications

EXPERIENCE NEEDED: TRACK RECORD OF LEADERSHIP

· Client service experience

· 7+ years omnichannel media planning experience

· Proven leadership ability perience managing a team of planners & supervisors

· Knowledge of current trends and innovations in media

· Comfort level with data, analytics and measurement

· Experience managing a team and day to day deliverables

· Can foster and grow talent

· Excels at media fundamentals and can educate all levels

STRUCTURE: OPERATING AS oneOMD

· OMD believes that as the world moves more and more towards rything digitalhe need for our teams in specialized areas to understand the digital world around them is critical. Our clients are building this cross-channel knowledge...and so are we.

· Our team understands that they are one team serving one set of clients. The need for collaboration, shared accountability for deliverables and true partnership has never been greater and needs to come from the top.