Manager

Omnicom Media; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 50,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Optimum Sports, the dedicated sports marketing agency within OMG and part of Omnicom Media, is seeking an Investment Manager to focus on adidas footwear and apparel partnerships.

The role involves maintaining client relationships, driving new business, and translating insights into buy executions across TV, sponsorship, and digital channels. You will lead projects, collaborate with strategy teams, and guide junior staff while delivering measurable ROI.

Qualifications

• Experience in media planning and buying is preferred.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to translate data into insights.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and lead junior staff.

Responsibilities

• Maintain client relationships where applicable
• Contribute to new business through research, ideation, pricing, and presentations
• Analyze data to identify insights and inform buy executions
• Elevate strategic thinking across teams and inspire ideas
• Meet with media sales reps to pursue aligned opportunities
• Lead multiple projects and mentor junior staff

Skills

Client relationships

Research & pricing

Strategic thinking

Job description

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 proprietary research and ROI tools, Optimum Sports facilitates everything from Ideation to Execution to Actualization.

Agency: Omnicom Media

Job Function

Media

Job Subfunction

Media Planning and Buying

Job Description

Optimum Sports Manager, 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 proprietary research and ROI tools, Optimum Sports facilitates everything from Ideation to Execution to Actualization.

Our approach integrates media, investment, property, hospitality, experiential, 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.

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

This specific role will be 100% dedicated to the adidas footwear and apparel business.

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 interagency teams and 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.

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$50,000 - $95,000

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$50,000 - $95,000