Senior Manager, Client Leadership

OMD; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

OMD in London is seeking a Senior Account Manager to lead campaigns for a global client. You will drive planning and execution across offline and online media, coordinating with local and specialist teams, and advising on optimisations to meet KPIs.

The role demands strong organisation, strategic thinking, and a proactive approach within a fast-paced, high-pressure environment. You’ll develop with the brand and agency, contributing to growth and client satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Passion for international media planning/buying.
• Strong time management and organisational skills.
• Strong financial acumen and numeracy.
• High attention to detail and follow-through.
• Ability to multi-task and work with several stakeholders.
• Enjoys working within a close-knit team.
• Confident presentation skills in front of agency and clients.
• An eye for design.
• Strong media math skills.
• Excel skills required.

Responsibilities

• Lead campaigns from start to finish and manage day-to-day running of the account.
• Be the key point of contact for clients across multiple lines of business.
• Manage and strategically assign budgets at campaign level.
• Brief and coordinate media planning with local and specialist teams.
• Maintain deadlines and launch timings across all media.
• Create and present concise, visually strong presentations for stakeholders.
• Analyse data across partners and campaigns to suggest optimisations.
• Integrate media plan elements in a cohesive way.
• Oversee campaign budget and tracking for different lines of business.
• Collaborate with local European and global teams.
• Identify new opportunities and partnerships with local teams and vendors.

Skills

International media planning

Time management

Numeracy

Attention to detail

Multi-tasking

Presentation skills

Design eye

Media math

Excel

Tools

Excel

Job description

The Role

An opportunity to join a global account and international team that plans and supports global markets out of London. This role is ideal for someone with established media planning, strategy and thinking, and wants to work on one of the world's most iconic brands.

Agency

Omd

Job Function

Account Management and Growth

Job Subfunction

Account Management

Job Description

An opportunity to join a global account and international team that plans and supports global markets out of London. This role is ideal for someone with established media planning, strategy and thinking, and wants to work on one of the world's most iconic brands.

Within the team we strive for flawless execution and often work in high pressure, innovative and quick moving environments. We are looking for somebody who’s adaptable, curious and who stresses the detail. Somebody who feels like they would thrive in situations like this and wants to push the boundaries of what’s possible.

The Senior Account Manager will be responsible for managing and bringing to life campaigns for both offline and online media channels.

The role suits someone who is highly organized, strategic and looking to work in a full-service agency environment, relishing the opportunity to work on a single client and develop with the brand and agency as a whole.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead campaigns from start to finish. Support the Executive director, and manage the day-to-day running of the account
• Key point of contact for clients on multiple lines of business
• Manage and strategically assign budgets on campaign level
• Brief, and coordinate media planning process with local and specialist teams
• Stay on top of all deliverables – booking deadlines, delivery deadlines, launch timings – across all media & communicate as appropriate
• Create and present concise and visually strong presentations for multiple stakeholders including clients
• Ability to analyse data across multiple partners and campaigns to suggest optimisations to improve campaigns against KPIs.
• Bring together different media plan elements in a cohesive, integrated way
• Oversee campaign budget and tracking for different lines of business
• Be a key point of contact for local European and global teams
• Work closely with local teams and media vendors to identify new opportunities / partnerships

Desired Skills/Experience

• Passion for and interest in international media planning / buying
• Strong time management & organisational skills.
• Strong financial acumen and numeracy
• High attention to detail and follow-through
• Ability to multi-task and work with several stakeholders. Account is fast paced and comms heavy
• Enjoys working within a close-knit team
• Confident presentations skills in front of agency and to clients
• An eye for design
• Strong media math skills
• Excel skills required

Attitude & Values

• Interest in consumer technology, entertainment, music and film. Desire to learn and understand client’s business.
• Curiosity about the world and how media and advertising play a part in it
• Proactive and entrepreneurial spirit – have a desire to make things happen and find solutions
• Be a strong team player
• Enthusiastic, determined, open-minded and creative
• Desire to continue to learn and develop within the agency environment

About OMD EMEA

At OMD EMEA you will experience a place of work unparalleled with any other; to do the best work in your career. With half of our employees originating from outside the UK, you will join a truly connected culture which celebrates difference and embraces diversity. This is a huge organisation, albeit one with a small agency feel. You will play a key role in developing strong relationships and shared ethos, whilst at the same time benefit from a plethora of career opportunities and training. Undeniably, this is an agency with a grounded sense of belonging and community, one which is social and emotionally-aware. Everything you achieve and learn at OMD EMEA will be exciting and rich in value – everyday will be a new challenge that needs solving!

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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