Executive Director, Paid Social in London

About the Role: You will lead a team of Paid Social specialists focussing on driving quality awareness and leads through account based marketing for a significant global B2B brand. You will have a depth of specialism and hands on planning & buying experience across Paid Social, with expertise in LinkedIn. 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 Paid Social, 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 be accountable for the end to end delivery and performance of Paid Social, as such you will be adept at managing efficient SLAs, instilling and ensuring QA processes, and using your client and internal relationships to ensure excellency across Paid Social.

You will report into the Managing Partner; and will be responsible for deploying and realizing their workstreams, with their support. You will be responsible for managing, developing and upskilling a regional team of Paid Social specialists and beyond the client, you will be a leader within the Performance Community, and will have the opportunity to support in new business pitches, team training, and to mentor and support more junior colleagues. 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.

Specific areas of responsibilities involve:

• Key stakeholder management across the team
• Direct management of the Paid Social Director and support in management of their team of Paid Social specialists
• Connection and collaboration across the local countries
• Translating the key priorities and workstreams for the client into Paid Social workstreams and deliverables
• Collaborating with broader stakeholders to ensure a cohesive and connecting omnichannel strategy and deployment for the client

About the Agency: 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.

Flexible Working: 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.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at OMG: 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.