Hybrid Group Director, Media Planning & Design

Interpublic; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Omnicom Media is seeking a Group Director, Media Planning to lead communications design across client groups during annual and major launches. This role focuses on ensuring excellence in idea-led, culturally empowered ecosystems that drive effectiveness and profitability.

The candidate will guide a design-forward planning process, collaborate with external agencies and internal strategy teams, and oversee talent development within the unit.

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.
• Initiative does not require candidates to have a college degree.

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

Skills

Integrated planning

Budget management

Client relationships

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Analytical skills

New business planning

Presentation skills

Tools

Optimization tools

Presentation tools

Job description

Omnicom Media is seeking a Group Director, Media Planning to lead communications design across client groups during annual and major launches. This role focuses on ensuring excellence in idea-led, culturally empowered ecosystems that drive effectiveness and profitability.

The candidate will guide a design-forward planning process, collaborate with external agencies and internal strategy teams, and oversee talent development within the unit.