Executive Director, Performance

OMD; City of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global media agency in the City of London is seeking a performance media team leader to manage digital campaigns across prestigious FMCG brands. You will oversee a team of specialists and drive client relationships to deliver impactful media strategies. The role offers a hybrid working model, focusing on collaboration while providing flexibility. Applicants should have a strong background in performance media and team management.

Benefits

Hybrid working model

Flexibility in working hours

Qualifications

• Proven background in performance media with expertise across various paid channels.
• Experience managing a team of specialists to ensure quality and output efficiency.
• Solid understanding of digital measurement and analytics platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead the European Regional Hub team managing digital campaigns for the SC Johnson portfolio.
• Support and mentor a team of digital specialists, ensuring high-quality output.
• Drive relationships with key media partners and shape client measurement agendas.

Skills

Performance media expertise

Client relationship management

Team management

Digital campaign planning

Analytics tools familiarity

Bid management understanding

Tools

Google Analytics

Adobe Omniture

Job description

OMD Greater London, England, United Kingdom

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About The Role

This role will be focused on leading the European Regional Hub team working across the SC Johnson portfolio of exciting and forward facing FMCG brands in the Air Care, Home Cleaning, Pest Control and Lifestyle brand categories.

You will be responsible for managing, developing and upskilling a regional team of digital specialists and beyond SCJ, 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.

About You

• Proven background in performance media, with expertise across paid search, paid social, programmatic, direct display and ecommerce, with a depth of specialism in at least one
• Activation experience, coupled with strategic expertise
• You will be very comfortable managing relationships with clients and colleagues, and will have experience managing a team of specialists, working with them to ensure efficiency of output and quality of work.
• Whilst you may not have been hands on within all of the digital channels, you will have specialised in one field and understand the work required to activate digital campaigns.
• Experience in driving JBPs with key media partners and coaching the team to select the right partners based on strategic goals of the client is required.
• You will help the client shape their digital measurement agenda
• We are looking to you to be a leader in the performance team, overseeing output of the department for your client
• You will need to have a solid understanding of the basic principles within all paid for digital channels (Programmatic Video & Display, Search, Social, Affiliates, eCommerce).
• You will need to have an understanding of the Ad-Tech ecosystem with a particular focus on delivery of creative message and tracking via an adserver
• You will need to have an understanding of analytics platforms such as Google Analytics or Adobe Omniture
• You will have experience planning digital campaigns across paid for channels and an understanding of audience generation/selection (via 3rd parties) or collection (via adserver/pixel/DMP etc)
• You will have an understanding of the role of publishers and/or technology platforms widely used across paid for digital media channels
• You will have an in depth understanding of KPI selection within paid for digital media channels
• You will have an understanding of bid management platforms and how they can help optimise within channel
• You will have experience managing people and developing their careers through an in-depth learning program.
• You will have experience activating media and therefore an understanding of best practice across campaign setup, QA, reporting, insight generation and finance

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. For example, you could start work at 8:30 and finish at 16:30 or start at 10:30 and finish at 18:30.

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.