Group Director, Client Advice & Management

Responsibilities

• Day to day client leader and advisor; motivate clients to innovate
• Actively lead the team to deliver brilliant work and flawless execution, ensuring positive client satisfaction scores
• Leadership and authoring of all client proposals, recommendations and points of view
• Ensure all client reporting, budget management, authorization and billing needs are met in a timely an accurate fashion
• Responsible for ensuring a positive relationship between clients and Strategy, Design, Partnerships and SBU leads on your group of accounts; clearly articulate client needs and objectives to the integrated Strategy, Communications Design and Partnership leads
• Ready to professionally push back where necessary to effectively manage client expectations, agency resources and deadlines
• Deepen relationships and craft collaborative partnership with clients’ partners agencies
• Apply a client lens to all areas of Initiative product, ensuring solutions developed are business-appropriate and meet agreed-upon KPIs
• Regularly educate your team, your Group Director and Initiative leadership on your clients’ business, culture and industry
• Involvement in key client engagements
• Partner with the discipline leaders (e.g., Strategy, Communications Design, Partnerships, Analytics) and your Group Director, to provide team members with well-rounded performance goals, evaluations and career paths

Requirements

• Proven ability to develop and maintain strong professional relationships with clients, colleagues and vendors
• Ability to drive projects from conception to completion; project management experience
• Background in consulting, marketing, advertising or integrated communications
• Strong leader, presenter and packager of opportunities
• Strong commercial acumen

Qualifications

• 10+ years in integrated planning role in media, publisher / vendor, or communications discipline (digital, content)
• 6+ years’ experience in leading, managing and developing a multi-dimensional staff

Skills

• Desired skills and experience
• 10+ years in integrated planning role in media, publisher / vendor, or communications discipline (digital, content)
• 6+ years’ experience in leading, managing and developing a multi-dimensional staff

Benefits

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.

Pay

$175,000.00 - $200,000.00

Schedule

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.