Executive Director, Client Leadership

Omnicom Media Group UK (OMG); City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A global media company is looking for an Executive Director to lead the Male Grooming and Beauty categories for Philips in their Westminster office. This role involves strategic planning, team management, and delivering integrated marketing solutions. Ideal candidates will have strong performance media experience and excellent leadership skills. Hybrid working is offered with flexibility around core hours, creating a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Career development programs

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Proven background in performance media for major brands.
• Experience in managing teams and developing careers.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to work collaboratively.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end planning for Male Grooming and Beauty categories.
• Ensure local market plans align with overall brand strategy.
• Manage relationships with clients and colleagues effectively.

Skills

Media planning

Leadership skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Stakeholder management

Job description

Overview

The role sits within the WEM (Western Europe Market) Philips team and involves working closely with our 17 countries to enable the next phase of business and digital transformation for Philips. You will work and report into Managing Partner and collaborate with the integrated Philips WEM team to ensure the client business objectives are met. The Executive Director is responsible for supporting our Western Europe Market (WEM) team across Personal Health for Philips. You will be responsible for delivering the end-to-end plan for the Male Grooming and Beauty Category for Philips. Philips operates with an integrated Omnicom agency model; this role is responsible for bringing together disciplines to deliver an integrated strategy for Philips across Media, PR and Influencers across the full funnel. You will directly manage Director (responsible for Oral Healthcare category) and Director (responsible for Mother & Child Care category) and lead the planning integration of a team of disciplines across strategy, media, digital, PR, IM and measurement. This role is key to connecting teams and driving collaboration to have a seamless plan which the 17 markets can then deploy. The ideal candidate will be a proactive problem-solver with a proven background in performance media to deliver best service for Philips. This is an exciting role with excellent career opportunities and benefits within a high-profile team. To that end, we are looking for someone who can hit the ground running, define their work efficiently, and drive excellence of delivery across the account and team overall.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrable experience of media planning, ideally with a deep knowledge of cross-discipline planning including PR and/or Influencer marketing
• Ability to manage the end-to-end planning process from briefing through to activation
• Able to translate trends and consumer insights into strategic planning decisions
• You will help the client shape their measurement agenda supporting Philips in connecting KPIs to business outcomes
• Familiar with MMM and Brand Equity tracking and able to use outputs to inform planning decisions
• You will understand the role of different channels across the full-funnel and how to lead teams to deliver an integrated plan
• You will be the guardian of the Male Grooming and Beauty categories, ensuring all local market plans align with the overall strategy and guidelines for activation and are consistent with the WEM brand strategy
• Proven ability to independently manage multiple departments and stakeholders in a fast-paced environment
• Knowledge of agency ecosystem
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent organizational and leadership skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Demonstrated ability to work in a collaborative environment, manage and influence key stakeholders including executive team members to ensure successful project deployment and delivery
• You will be expected to have international experience, having a good degree of familiarity with local market nuances and vendors
• You will be very comfortable managing relationships with clients and colleagues, and will have experience managing a team of specialists, working with them to ensure efficiency of output and quality of work
• You will have experience managing people and developing their careers through an in-depth learning program
• You will ensure the relevant team members across your team engaged and delivering the highest possible quality of work

About OMD EMEA and Working Pattern

At OMD EMEA, we strive to deliver on our promise of 'better decisions, faster' for our clients, partners and all 6,000+ OMDers across our region every day. As part of the world's largest media network, our business is staging experiences for consumers who have more choice and less attention than ever before. The key to the process is empathy: empathy to see the world through the eyes of the consumer, to recognise the needs of our clients and to identify aspirations of our talent.

Learn Fast, Act Fast. To help navigate the road to a 'new normal', learning from, and acting upon data signals at scale and speed is crucial. Our working pattern for colleagues is to be present in the office three days a week at our offices in London with the other days available to work remotely. Flexible Working: we have a hybrid working model (three days in the office, two working remotely) to meet the needs of both our people and our business, balancing the benefits of in-person connections with the flexibility of remote working. Our standard working hours are 9:30 - 17:30, but we offer the ability to flex around core hours of 10:30 - 16:30 to give our people flexibility on how they manage their working day, whether in the office or working remotely. For example, you could start at 8:30 and finish at 16:30 or start at 10:30 and finish at 18:30. We encourage open conversations between our people and managers to help navigate high-need periods and individual circumstances. Our goal is to create an environment where people feel genuinely supported to do their best - both in their careers and in their lives outside of work.