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Senior Director, Paid Social

$120k - $230k
Full-time

Omdus Omd Usa

Agency:

Omnicom Media

Job Function:

Media

Job Subfunction:

Performance Media

Job Description:

Who were looking for:

We are seeking a Social Media Senior Director with experience in campaign management is a vocal and engaged leader on their client and functional teams and have shown the ability to carry out strategy through structuring and planning. The Senior Director Paid Social is responsible for providing strategic leadership and oversight to the social team. This role involves developing thought leadership representing the team internally and externally and ensuring effective management of the social program to meet or exceed client goals.

A successful candidate will have great attention to detail and be able to take complete ownership of educating team members and getting tasks completed to bring value to our clients.

We value our culture above anything else and that culture is built on the spirit of our people. Were looking for tireless optimists happy warriors and fearless collaborators who bring that extra dose of contagious energy.

The Opportunity:

If youre reading this we want to talk to you about joining our team as a Senior Director. Your responsibilities will include:

Team Leadership

  • Define and implement best practices across the teams
  • Effectively manage and lead all Social team members on particular client team(s)
  • Identify training and development needs of client team and broader functional team
  • Establish and maintain a management framework that allows for visibility into team performance against client goals and objectives
  • Consulting with individual client teams as needed to ensure best practices are being used and to brainstorm new approaches to achieving client goals
  • Lead along with the Social Director the hiring process for Social team members on their client team
  • Oversight for on boarding new clients within their office location
  • Ensure integration with other functional teams
  • Primary account contact with COE for agency-wide social knowledge sharing

Grow Business

  • Determine how to increase and expand paid media services for their clients
  • Leads innovation and vision-- new products and enhancements and help identify and test new channels and products highlighting results and sharing across organization and externally
  • Actively drive long-range strategic planning for client
  • Help define the role of social in overall media campaigns (audience planning optimizations measurement etc.) with other media teams

Broader agency responsibilities related to one or more of the following:

  • Practice Development
  • Product & Service Development
  • Partner Relations

Practice Development:

Innovation

  • Identifies and develops new processes strategies frameworks highly strategic and innovative paid social strategy recommendations that align with campaign and business objectivesHelps pilot new approaches with client teams to refine and ensure viabilityMeets with Content and Analytics functional leads to identify opportunities for integration processes to leverage across media functions
  • Alpha/Beta testsLeads innovation and vision-- new products and enhancements and help identify and test new channels and products highlighting results and sharing across organization and externallyProvides oversight to client teams on testing approach analyzing results and merchandising internally and externally
  • POVsLeads development of POVs related to new products and enhancements related to existing Social products and services

Product & Service Development:

New External Channels/Products

  • Identifies and evaluates new channels and products
  • Recommends clients to test new channels and products

Internal Products & Services

  • Helps with product marketing for existing Social services
  • Project manages development and testing of products and services
  • Identifies new products/services being delivered by client teams and determines potential to provide at agency level

Partner Relations:

Technology

  • Main point of contact for technology partners competitive and campaign management
  • Identify and evaluate new technology providers in the space
  • Develop proposals for new providers recommended for the agency
  • Update technology RFIs/comparisons on periodic basis
  • Point of escalation for technology related issues
  • Responsible to ensure all client teams are informed about new providers or updates to existing technologies
  • Subject matter expert for client team questions new business sister agencies etc.

Social Networks

  • Responsible to ensure all client teams are informed of new products and engine enhancements
  • Oversee presentations from providers for Social team or broader agency
  • Oversee QBR from key engine partners
  • Oversee with training lead on related certifications

Our expectations of you:

Were looking for a great connector of people and ideas someone who is personable communicates well is empathetic to others points of view strong partners and is ultimately comfortable assuming leadership and driving action in a collaborative setting.

The ideal candidate will be process oriented by reviewing any gaps in the day-to-day management of the account and implementing new stronger processes. They ensure team members fully understand the clients business and how market factors impact the business and make recommendations around expanding or adjusting the social program. The Senior Director Paid Social will foster strong cross-team collaboration with other Paid Social leads to enhance overall culture and team performance. Additionally the Senior Director Paid Social should regularly identify and bring opportunities to the client such as beta tests and industry insights.

What youll need to succeed:

  • Bachelors degree or relevant post-secondary education training or equivalent experience
  • 10 years business experience including 5 years building and/or managing accounts in the social marketing and/or interactive advertising space.
  • Be a proactive self-starter
  • Possess general knowledge of direct and brand marketing principles and strategies
  • Have a deep understanding of the interactive marketing landscape
  • Have polished presentation communication and analytical skills
  • Have strong organizational skills being able to manage multiple projects at once
  • Have online media sales and/or interactive ad agency experience
  • Outstanding ability to build partnerships and manage and develop a cohesive team in a fast-paced environment
  • Highly analytical and creative mind in strong communication skills with experience in building and managing a team through a use of excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • High levels of integrity autonomy and self-motivation
  • Demonstrated ability to manage client relations including handling difficult client situations to optimal results for both the client and the company
  • Know the difference between features and benefits and how to sell and deliver value!

The outcomes we will celebrate:

Strong client relationships admiring teammates more effective plans industry awards strong agency partnerships.

Who youll partner with:

Youll work hand in hand with the social members on your team partnering with the strategy/planning teams and reporting into the Client Business Lead.

Beyond your immediate team youll also work closely with the rest of the Digital Activation team including Search and Programmatic Video/Display as well as the wider media and marketing sciences teams to drive your clients business forward.

What you can expect:

The chance to grow the agency and yourself.

Freedom to collaborate with over 4000 colleagues in 80 offices worldwide.

The ability to be brave try new things and help continue to grow our digital offering.

A place that cares about your personal passions just as much as your work.

$120000 - $230000

To the extent permissible by local law Omnicoms 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.

Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed and were focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join uswe look forward to getting to know you. We will process your personal data in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice.

Link to Recruitment Privacy Notice: US Job Seekers:

It is the policy of Omnicom and any of its affiliates to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race religion color ethnic origin gender gender identity age marital status veteran status sexual orientation disability or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal state or local law. EOE/AA/M/D/V/F.

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