Director, Performance in London

You’ll join the Performance team as a Director and you’ll use your experience as a digital activation specialist to develop integrated performance approaches. Leveraging digital channels to help our clients deliver their brand and business objectives, and ensure the team works effectively & efficiently both in terms of resource and against our clients' business objectives.

You will be responsible for ensuring delivery of performance media against client business objectives, from planning through to reporting. You will make sure budget is optimised across all paid for digital media channels and that your client(s) are developing their digital program(s) via robust testing.

You will lead a team of performance specialists focused on conversion and ROAS for one of our largest brands. You will lead a team across paid search, paid social, and programmatic, and you will have a depth of specialism in paid search specifically. This is a highly client-facing role, where you will use your depth and breadth of experience to effectively and efficiently solve client challenges.

Your role will be to lead various workstreams across the channels, including innovation, measurement, annual planning, partner negotiations and management, and to lead those performance client relationships. You will also be responsible for line managing the channel managers; and coaching them through managing their teams. You will report into the Executive Director; and will be responsible for deploying and realizing their workstreams, with their support.

This role will appeal to someone who is passionate about the future of our industry, and loves working with big, exciting cultural brands, and has knowledge across the breadth of digital channels to create data informed & strategic plans, alongside leading the team in activating and optimising those plans in the best possible way, across a range of objectives spanning brand and eCommerce.

You will be a leader within the Performance Community and will be called on to support in new business pitches, team training, and to mentor and support more junior colleagues.

At OMD EMEA, we strive to deliver on our promise of ‘better decisions, faster‘ for our clients, partners and all 6,000+ OMDers across our region every day. As part of the world’s largest media network, our business is staging experiences for consumers who have more choice and less attention than ever before. The key to the process is empathy. Empathy to see the world through the eyes of the consumer, to recognise the needs of our clients and to identify aspirations of our talent.

Our working pattern for colleagues is to be present in the office three days a week at our offices in London with the other days available to work remotely. Let us know if you have any questions about our working pattern as part of your application and interview process.

At Omnicom Media Group, we are committed to supporting flexibility for our people while fostering collaboration, innovation, and teamwork. We have a hybrid working model (three days in the office, two working remotely), to ensure that we meet the needs of both our people and our business, balancing the benefits of in-person connections with the flexibility of remote working. Our standard working hours are 9:30 – 17:30, but we offer the ability to flex around core hours of 10:30 – 16:30 to give our people flexibility on how they manage their working day, whether that’s in the office or working remotely.

We encourage open conversations between our people and managers to help navigate high-need periods and individual circumstances. Our goal is to create an environment where people feel genuinely supported to do their best - both in their careers and in their lives outside of work.

We want everyone to make the most of the opportunity to shine and showcase your talents and we are happy to make adjustments in the recruitment process so you can be your best.

At OMG, our vision is to be an agency where difference is valued and everyone is able to thrive in a culture of equality, inclusion and belonging. We are committed to providing a truly inclusive environment that reflects today’s society, where everyone is able to bring their true selves to work, and where diverse voices and backgrounds are valued, heard, and well-represented.