Senior Director, Communications Design & Planning

Interpublic; United States; Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Omnicom Media is seeking a Senior Group Director, Communications Design to lead the next generation of planning. The role emphasizes design excellence, cross-functional collaboration, and strategic oversight across major client initiatives.

Responsibilities include leading design counsel during annual planning, guiding the design team's methodologies, and ensuring the scalability and profitability of design efforts within the agency.

Qualifications

• Experience in an integrated planning role in media, publisher / vendor, or communications discipline (digital, content).
• Proven ability to develop and maintain high level professional relationships with senior clients, colleagues and vendors.
• Strong organizational, analytical and leadership skills; experience in new business planning and presentations.

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 experience

Client relationship building

Leadership and people management

Strategic thinking

Presentations skills

Job description

Omnicom Media is seeking a Senior Group Director, Communications Design to lead the next generation of planning. The role emphasizes design excellence, cross-functional collaboration, and strategic oversight across major client initiatives.

Responsibilities include leading design counsel during annual planning, guiding the design team's methodologies, and ensuring the scalability and profitability of design efforts within the agency.