Communications Design Strategy Lead

Adelphi Group; New York (NY); On-site; USD 175,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Omnicom seeks a Group Director, Communications Design to lead the next generation of planning and ensure principled adoption across client groups. You will guide design excellence, collaborate with partners, and drive ecosystem delivery spanning owned, earned, shared and paid media.

You will oversee talent development, strategic planning, and high-stakes pitches, ensuring profitable integration of leadership within the design team and strong client relationships.

Qualifications

• Experience in an integrated planning role in media, publisher / vendor, or communications discipline (digital, content)
• Experience with high budget clients that participate in the linear video and CTV Upfront
• Skilled at utilizing tools for optimizations
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• Proven ability to develop and maintain high level professional relationships with senior clients, colleagues and vendors
• Strong organizational, analytical and leadership skills
• Strong experience/involvement in new business planning and presentations skills
• 10+ years relevant experience with 5+ years leading, managing and motivating a team
• Category or audience experience as relevant per assignment
• Ability to lead strategic thinking for integrated marketing communication plans encompassing traditional and non-traditional media strategies
• Ability to ensure consistency and best practices across all projects; strong project management skills
• Ability to assess client needs for utilization and development of planning and research tools and resources

Responsibilities

• Act as lead design counsel for clients at key periods (e.g. annual planning) or across key projects (eg. New launches)
• Responsible for communications design product excellence across major planning initiatives across designated client base
• Lead the team’s adoption of best-in-class communications design approaches and innovation, and adherence to planning process
• Oversee collaboration with external partners (creative agency), and internal strategy and partnerships teams through the planning process to ensure creative excellence, strategic fit and commercial feasibility of the Connections Design approach
• Oversight of connections architecture development, analytics strategy and ecosystem delivery across owned, earned, shared & paid (OESP)
• Responsible for best-in-class quality and consistency of every output from the communications design client team they oversee, in line with the communications design discipline vision
• Responsible for ensuring profitable integration of Specialty Business Unit (SBU) leadership within design team
• Oversee opportunities to grow scope to appropriate communications design staffing levels and up-leveled talent on client assignments
• Manage the product outcomes for new business efforts across pitches for Communications Design resource, including casting talent, running brainstorms, integrating with partnerships & SBU’s on

Job description

Omnicom seeks a Group Director, Communications Design to lead the next generation of planning and ensure principled adoption across client groups. You will guide design excellence, collaborate with partners, and drive ecosystem delivery spanning owned, earned, shared and paid media.

You will oversee talent development, strategic planning, and high-stakes pitches, ensuring profitable integration of leadership within the design team and strong client relationships.