Associate Director, Investment

Omnicom Media; New York (NY); On-site; USD 70,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Omnicom Media in New York is seeking an Associate Director, Investment to lead premium media partnerships, guide investment strategy, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to maximize ROI across TV, digital and sponsorship.

The role emphasizes marketplace opportunities, strong client relationships, and leadership of junior staff with a focus on data-driven decisions and current TV buying trends.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years’ experience on a Local Video Investment team
• Track record of negotiating complex strategic partnerships
• Proficient in analyzing data and insights to drive meaningful outcomes
• Strong business acumen and interpersonal skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills across organizations
• Mentor and lead junior staff
• Strong relationship development with clients and partners
• Proactive mindset with ability to generate ideas in a fast-paced environment

Responsibilities

• Maintain client relationships where applicable
• Contribute to new business efforts including research, ideation, pricing, and presenting
• Analyze and apply insights to buy executions
• Elevate strategic thinking across teams and inspire new ideas
• Meet with media reps and industry players to pursue aligned opportunities
• Collaborate with strategy teams and other SBUs
• Advise on emerging TV trends (Programmatic, Addressable, OTT)
• Oversee junior staff and guide buys with insights
• Lead multiple projects concurrently with prioritization

Skills

Negotiation

Data analysis

Communication

Leadership

Relationship management

Strategic thinking

Mentorship

Tools

DDS

Prisma

Job description

Job Description

Optimum Sports Assocaite Director, Investment,

Agency

Omnicom Media

Job Function

Media

Job Subfunction

Media Planning and Buying

Job Description

Optimum Sports Assocaite Director, Investment,

Overview

Optimum Sports is the dedicated sports marketing agency within OMG. Unlike traditional sports marketing agencies, Optimum Sports operates in both the Sports Sponsorship and Sports Media landscapes. With the combination of both disciplines under a single offering, Optimum Sports can provide its clients with unique and advantageous marketplace leverage through which it delivers cohesive, multi-platform sports marketing strategies. Ingrained with the latest research and ROI tools, Optimum Sports facilitates everything from Ideation to Execution to Actualization.

Our approach integrates media, investment, property, and insights to develop strategy, manage negotiation and execution, and evaluate performance of partnerships. Established in 2003, we continue to innovate in the sports marketplace and build solutions for our constantly evolving world.

The Associate Director reports to a Director within a vertical team structure. He/she will have marketplace, interagency and client facing responsibilities

Responsibilities

• Maintain client relationships where applicable
• Contribute to new business efforts including research, ideation, pricing, and presenting
• Analyze, identify, and realize compelling insights and trends and apply those to buy executions
• Elevate strategic thinking at all levels, inspiring and creating new ideas that permeate across our people
• Meet with media sales reps and industry representatives on a regular basis to pursue ideas that are strategically aligned with the client’s business and needs
• Works in direct cooperation with respective strategy teams
• Interacts with members of other SBU’s as the respective disciplines of those SBU’s are pertinent to proposed and executed media investments and sponsorship marketing strategies
• Develop expertise and serve in an advisory capacity on all emerging TV trends (i.e., Programmatic, Addressable, OTT)
• Provide oversight to junior level and supervisory staff by providing oversight to their buys and aiding them in identifying insights and trends
• Lead multiple projects concurrently, while prioritizing the most important, right-fit opportunities at hand

Optimum Sports is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 5-7 years’ experience as a member of a Local Video Investment team
• Track record of negotiating complex strategic partnership agreements
• Proficient in analyzing and interpreting data and insights to help drive and inform meaningful insights
• Strong business acumen and interpersonal skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations
• Highly effective mentor, motivator, and leader of junior level staff
• Strength in relationship development and management, as it pertains to clients, partners, and coworkers
• Able to hit and exceed targeted goals and deliverables as agreed upon
• Drive to be proactive and bring their informed point of view to deliver the highest quality of work
• Ability to develop ideas independently and thrive in a fast-paced environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of Sports/Media business models preferred
• Experience working in related role in the sports/media industry
• A personal passion for sports and/or media technology
• Background within the Television & Digital buying systems, not required, but a plus (can be but not limited to DDS & Prisma)

$70,000-$125,000

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.

Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we’re focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us—we look forward to getting to know you. We will process your personal data in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice.

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$70,000-$125,000