Digital Investment Manager

PHD; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Omnicom is seeking a commercially focused analyst to support digital investment initiatives across OMnet, Marketplace and Outcomes. You will assist planning, budgeting and reporting and work with agency partners to drive value.

This role requires strong numerical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to coordinate with internal teams to forecast spend and optimize commercial outcomes. A proactive, client-facing mindset is essential.

Qualifications

• Very strong attention to detail.
• Good with numbers.
• Curious and tenacious.
• Happy to get into the detail – there is admin involved.
• Ability to switch between tasks effectively.
• Ability to listen and distil information into simple language.
• Proactive approach.
• Inquisitive and comfortable challenging people.
• Like problem solving and finding solutions.
• Digital experience preferable.
• Comfortable presenting to clients and agency teams.

Responsibilities

• Assist Head of Digital Investment in delivering against key investment & principal trading product targets: OMnet, Outcomes, Marketplace
• Checking and approval of digital OMnet plans
• Interrogation of digital planning decisions and seeking commercial opportunities with agency partners and across investment products
• Assist in setting up & managing functional commercial process with PHD International to allow for transaction of OMnet on hubbed client digital plans
• Help manage the digital Approved Supplier List (ASL) and new supplier testing process
• Help manage booking, delivery and reconciliation of digital OMnet activity
• Assist with updating investment product trackers for all digital investment targets and products
• Deliver quarterly reports for clients, detailing investment product investments and value
• Presentations to clients to sell in relevant digital services (e.g. OMnet, Marketplace, Outcomes)
• Presentations to internal teams to raise awareness of digital opportunities
• Work closely with the relevant internal teams to forecast supplier spend and improve commercials
• Support both investment and planning teams in achieving commercial success at macro and micro level
• Help in completion of digital pitch pricing exercises
• Assist in creating best practice for PHD regarding client-led digital JBPs
• Engage proactively helping teams to deliver against audit KPIs
• Work closely with OM central trading & commercial teams to understand group pressures and communicate PHD challenges
• Regular meetings with all major digital vendors
• Assist in automation of admin tasks

Skills

Attention to detail

Numbers

Curious

Admin tasks

Proactive

Listening and distillation

Commercial thinking

Presentation skills

Digital experience

Job description

Agency

Job Function

Job Subfunction

Responsibilities

• Assist Head of Digital Investment in delivering against key investment & principal trading product targets: OMnet, Outcomes, Marketplace
• Checking and approval of digital OMnet plans
• Interrogation of digital planning decisions and proactive seeking of commercial opportunities with agency partners and across investment products
• Assist in setting up & managing functional commercial process with PHD International to allow for transaction of OMnet on hubbed client digital plans
• Help manage the digital Approved Supplier List (ASL) and new supplier testing process
• Help manage booking, delivery and reconciliation of digital OMnet activity
• Assist with updating investment product trackers for all digital investment targets and products
• Deliver quarterly reports for clients, detailing investment product investments and value
• Presentations to clients to sell in relevant digital services (e.g. OMnet, Marketplace, Outcomes)
• Presentations to internal teams to raise awareness of digital opportunities
• Work closely with the relevant internal teams (mainly channel and collectives) to understand what they’re planning so we can better forecast supplier spend and proactively look at ways to improve commercials
• Support both investment and planning teams in achieving commercial success at macro and micro level
• Help in completion of digital pitch pricing exercises
• Assist in creating best practice for PHD regarding client-led digital JBPs
• Engage proactively helping teams to deliver against audit KPIs – help ensuring value is driven where required
• Work closely with OM central trading & commercial teams to understand group pressures and communicate PHD challenges. Action these within PHD
• Regular meetings with all major digital vendors
• Assist in automation of admin tasks

Desired attributes

• Very strong attention to detail
• Good with numbers
• Curious and tenacious
• Happy to get into the detail – there is admin involved & it is important
• Ability to switch between tasks effectively
• Ability to listen and distil information into simple language
• Proactive approach
• Inquisitive and comfortable challenging people on their point of view
• Like problem solving/finding solutions
• Digital experience preferable
• Comfortable presenting to clients and agency teams alike
• It’s a commercial role so an interest in that side of the business

Omnicom’s 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. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.

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