Manager, Paid Social

OMD; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Omnicom seeks a Paid Social Manager in New York to lead campaign strategy and execution within the Performance Media team. You will mentor junior team members, collaborate with clients and agency partners, and drive integrated social initiatives with a focus on results.

The role requires strong leadership, client communication, and knowledge of paid social optimization, forecasting, and reporting. A Bachelor’s in marketing or related field and 3+ years managing online advertising is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, advertising or communications.
• 3+ years of experience managing online marketing/advertising accounts.
• Be a proactive self-starter.
• Strong knowledge of direct marketing principles and strategies.
• Polished presentation, communication and listening skills.
• Strong organizational skills with multiple projects.

Responsibilities

• Drive overall digital strategy and related tactics to meet client goals.
• Lead and prioritize work across client teams and agency partners.
• Mentor and develop junior team members on the Social team.
• Ensure timely delivery of initiatives and client expectations.
• Proactively share learnings and best practices across the org.
• Identify ways to improve team efficiency and introduce new processes.

Skills

Paid social optimization

Campaign management

Mentor junior staff

Client communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in marketing, advertising or communications

Job description

Agency

Omd

Job Function

Media

Job Subfunction

Performance Media

Job Description

Position: Paid Social Manager

Paid Social Managers have excelled at campaign management and execution, are vocal and engaged leaders on their client and functional teams, and have shown the ability to carry out strategy through structuring and planning as well as training and developing junior team members. Supervisors are direct managers of the junior Social team members on their account, and take responsibility for guiding their growth and ensuring that the team functions most effectively and with minimal errors.

Job Responsibilities

Leadership

• Drive overall digital strategy and associated tactics to meet client’s goals, working closely with account lead(s)
• Established as leader with the client and across all departmental teams within OMD and our agency partners (Omnet, CREO, etc.), effectively prioritizing/negotiating needs between all parties
• Effectively manage and develop junior team members (mentoring, training, etc.)
• Prioritize and manage quarterly priorities and ad-hoc requests to ensure they are executed on time and to client expectations by entire client team
• Ability to problem-solve, such as finding solutions for issues not yet attempted
• Proactively share learnings and best practices across the organization
• Establish oneself as an expert within their functional department and client team
• Identify ways to improve team efficiency and effectiveness, such as new processes
• Bring new proactive ideas to help meet client goals and grow business

Communication

• Ability to consult/educate/negotiate with clients and agency partners
• Effectively communicate paid media insights, reporting, trends, and new initiatives to client/agency partners and vendors (as Social has ownership of the vendor relationships)
• Ability to present recommendations/ideas to client and internal team
• Ability to effectively merchandise successes to the client
• Help educate client team on latest trends, best practices, technologies, etc.
• Demonstrates appropriate judgment through proper escalation

Functional Expertise

• In-depth knowledge of: Paid search or Paid social optimizations (proactive and reactive)
• Forecasting and opportunity/gap analysis
• Campaign management tools, including bid rules/management
• Advanced search engine or social knowledge
• Monitoring new search or social trends and products and evaluating application to client
• Research tools/competitive analysis
• Budget/pacing and billing
• Understanding integrated media
• Client scope
• Industry trends

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, advertising or communications
• 3+ years of work experience managing online marketing/advertising accounts
• Be a proactive self-starter
• Possess general knowledge of direct marketing principles and strategies
• Have polished presentation, communication and listening skills
• Have strong organizational skills as applied through an ability to manage multiple projects at once
• Be confident in analyzing and acting on marketing data
• $90,000 - $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.

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$90,000 - $95,000