Manager

OMDUS OMD USA LLC; United States; On-site; USD 50,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Omnicom Media Group is seeking a Sports Investment Manager dedicated to adidas footwear and apparel. The role focuses on client relationships, research, pricing, and devel​oping insights to inform media investments and sponsorship strategies.

Reporting to a Director, you will work within a collaborative team across interagency units, guiding junior staff and leading multiple campaigns while adapting to a fast-paced sports media environment.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years' experience on a Local Video Investment team.
• Track record of negotiating complex strategic partnerships.
• Proficient in analyzing data and insights to drive meaningful conclusions.
• Strong business acumen and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication; able to collaborate across orgs.
• Mentor and lead junior staff; manage relationships with clients, partners, and colleagues.
• Ability to hit and exceed goals and deliverables.
• Proactive, with an informed point of view for high-quality work.
• Ability to develop ideas independently in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Maintain client relationships where applicable.
• Contribute to new business through research, ideation, pricing, and presentations.
• Analyze trends to inform buy executions and insights.
• Elevate strategic thinking across teams and inspire new ideas.
• Meet with media sales reps and industry representatives regularly.
• Collaborate with strategy teams and other interagency units.
• Develop expertise on emerging TV trends (Programmatic, Addressable, OTT).
• Supervise junior staff and aid them in identifying insights and trends.
• Lead multiple projects concurrently and prioritize opportunities.

Skills

Relationship management

Data analysis

Negotiation

Communication

Mentoring

Tools

DDS

Prisma

Job description

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.

The Sports 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

Basic Qualifications

• 3-5 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)

#sports $50,000 - $95,000

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.

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