Managing Partner - Philips

OMD; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Wellbeing support

Development opportunities

Job summary

OMD is seeking a Managing Partner to lead the Philips Western Europe partnership from London, driving outstanding client service and growth across multiple markets. You will oversee a multidisciplinary team in media, data, creative, content and PR, acting as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders.

The role demands a commercially minded leader with proven experience in large-scale regional relationships, budget ownership, and P&L responsibility, delivering strategic and integrated

Qualifications

• Significant leadership experience in a media agency or related marketing environment.
• Proven success managing large-scale international or regional client relationships.
• Strong commercial acumen with budget ownership and P&L responsibility.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and navigating complex stakeholder environments.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills for senior leadership.
• Strategic thinking to translate business challenges into innovative solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Western European Philips business, ensuring outstanding client service and commercial success across the region.
• Act as the senior client partner, building trusted relationships with key stakeholders and shaping growth opportunities.
• Drive collaboration across media, creative, content, PR and data teams to deliver integrated, business-driving solutions.
• Lead and develop a high-performing regional team, coaching individuals to deliver their best work.
• Own the regional operating model, ensuring execution excellence, process improvement and innovation.
• Identify growth opportunities and lead strategic workstreams to enhance client performance.
• Manage revenue targets and profitability, ensuring sustainable business operations.
• Support new business initiatives and represent OMD with authority in senior presentations and pitches.

Skills

Leadership

Client relationships

Budget ownership

P&L responsibility

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Job description

Job Description

Managing Partner, Client Success (Philips Western Europe)

Bankside, London | Hybrid Working (3 days office / 2 days remote)

Agency

Omd

Job Function

Account Management and Growth

Job Subfunction

Account Management

OMD EMEA is looking for an exceptional Managing Partner to lead one of our most important regional client partnerships, Royal Philips. This is a senior leadership opportunity for a commercially minded media and client services leader who thrives on building high-performing teams, driving transformational growth, and influencing senior stakeholders across multiple markets.

As Managing Partner, you will oversee the Western European regional network output for Philips, leading a multidisciplinary team across media, data, creative, content and PR. Acting as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders, you'll ensure strategic excellence, operational effectiveness and integrated collaboration across the Omnicom network.

What You'll Be Doing

• Leading the Western European Philips business, ensuring outstanding client service and commercial success across the region.
• Acting as the senior client partner, building trusted relationships with key stakeholders and shaping future growth opportunities.
• Driving collaboration across media, creative, content, PR and data teams to deliver integrated, business-driving solutions.
• Leading and developing a high-performing regional team, coaching individuals to deliver their best work and realise their potential.
• Owning the regional operating model, ensuring excellence in execution, process improvement and innovation.
• Identifying growth opportunities and leading strategic workstreams that enhance client performance and strengthen partnerships.
• Managing revenue targets and overall profitability, ensuring the business operates effectively and sustainably.
• Supporting new business initiatives and representing OMD with authority and credibility in senior presentations and pitches.

What We're Looking For

• Significant leadership experience within a media agency or closely related marketing environment.
• Proven success managing large-scale international or regional client relationships.
• Strong commercial acumen, including ownership of budgets, revenue targets and P&L responsibility.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and navigating complex stakeholder environments.
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence at senior leadership level.
• A strategic thinker who can translate business challenges into innovative, actionable solutions.
• A collaborative leader who inspires teams, drives performance and fosters an inclusive, high-performing culture.

Why OMD?

OMD is the world's largest media network, with more than 14,000 people across 100+ countries. We create what's next for some of the world's most recognised brands, combining creativity, innovation and commercial effectiveness to deliver sustainable growth.

At OMD EMEA HQ, you'll join a truly international team working on some of the agency's most prestigious global and regional accounts. You'll have the opportunity to shape the future of a major client partnership while working alongside talented people who are passionate about delivering brilliant work.

Alongside a competitive benefits package, we offer hybrid working, industry-leading wellbeing support, excellent development opportunities and a culture where people can thrive both professionally and personally.

About Omnicom Media

Omnicom Media is the media services division of Omnicom, bringing together some of the world's most recognised agency brands, specialist capabilities, and media expertise. We operate one of the industry's strongest media ecosystems, designed to help our clients unlock growth through intelligence, innovation, and collaboration.

Everything we build, from systems and platforms to products and capabilities, is designed with growth in mind. Our integrated Growth Ecosystems are tailored to each client's ambitions: modular, intelligent, and adaptable, deploying the right capabilities at the right time to create meaningful impact and drive transformational results.

40,000+ people - Our scale is powered by our talent. With access to global expertise, local market insight, and operational excellence, our teams work together to deliver smarter solutions for clients around the world.

70+ markets - Our global reach enables us to create strategies informed by culture, commerce, and consumer behaviour, ensuring relevance in every market.

150+ cities - With teams embedded in communities worldwide, we combine local knowledge with global perspective to help clients navigate an ever-evolving media landscape.

Join Omnicom Media and be part of a global network where your ideas, expertise, and ambition can help shape the future of media.

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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