Manager, Client Leadership (PepsiCo)

Fuse; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media agency in London seeks a skilled professional in Comms Planning and Client Service. You'll lead best practices across various business units and manage market deliveries. Candidates should have experience in client leadership, media planning, and utilize planning tools. The role offers a hybrid working model: three days in-office and two remotely, fostering flexibility and collaboration.

Qualifications

• Client Services experience in Media/Planning.
• Experience briefing and building relationships with Media Owners.
• Local Market Co-Ordination expertise.

Responsibilities

• Lead markets in Planning best practices using OMD Planning tools.
• Manage Market deliveries and prepare ad hoc reports.
• Develop best practice Planning Playbooks and Thought Leadership Workshops.

Skills

Client Leadership

Media/Planning

People Management

Research and Insight Development

Tools

Planning Tools

Job description

This is a fantastic opportunity to work with a centralized team across the world-renowned brand PepsiCo (EMEA). This role is for a candidate who is passionate about driving business impact, enjoys creativity and continuously elevating output to deliver best in class solutions for the client and agency.

The PepsiCo business is split into 3 Business units covering a range of high-profile brands: Snacks (Lays, Cheetos, Walkers), Beverages (key brands are Pepsi, Rockstar & Lipton Iced Tea) & Nutrition (Quaker oats).

This role will be across all business units, focused on Comms Planning & Client Service with responsibilities across the Comms Planning team. The centralised PepsiCo org is responsible for strategic direction and ensuring absolute marketing excellence across all of PepsiCo’s marketing activity across Europe. It is led by very senior clients, with many years’ media experience, who ask tough but interesting media questions.

You will be tasked with:

• Leading the markets in Planning best practice: This requires learning the OMD Planning tools and teaching markets how to use it effectively,
• Leading the delivery of our quarterly market scorecard
• Managing Market deliveries and ad hoc reports
• Developing best practice Planning Playbooks with the Planning Director,
• Developing Thought Leadership Workshops and think pieces.

Experience Required:

• Client Leadership /Client Services experience in Media/Planning
• Use of Planning Tools for budget setting
• Experience briefing and building relationships with Media Owners
• Local Market Co-Ordination
• People Management
• Research and Insight development

About the Agency:

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

At Omnicom Media Group, we are committed to supporting flexibility for our people while fostering collaboration, innovation, and teamwork. We have a hybrid working model (three days in the office, two working remotely), to ensure that we meet the needs of both our people and our business, balancing the benefits of in-person connections with the flexibility of remote working.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates. We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace.