Senior Associate, Integrated Media Planning

About the role

We are OMD, Cannes Lions 2024 Media Network of the Year, RECMA’s Best-Performing Media Network Globally, and COMvergence’s #1 Global Agency Network. As the world’s largest media network, with more than 12,000 people working in over 100 countries, we excel at making better decisions, faster. By combining innovation, creativity, empathy, and evidence, we help clients move faster, reach further, and take smarter risks in a world full of opportunities. We pride ourselves on being a people-obsessed, outcomes-focused business that applies evidence and data-based solutions, married with the practice of empathy, to drive performance and growth. When working with our clients, we put ourselves in the shoes of the consumer in order to see the world through their eyes. We focus on finding greater empathy with the consumer so as to uncover insights and opportunities that deliver more valued and valuable connections.

Responsibilities

• Passion: approaches any situation with energy and interest; displays passion for pop culture, trends and motivations in consumer behavior.
• Problem Solving: supports management to navigate challenges and/or asks for help from above when needed.
• Hunger for Data: continually seeks to understand how data is leveraged for reporting and used to define strategies, to defend strategies, and to uncover new opportunities.
• Delegation: as a manager of our Associate level, this role is where delegation skills begin and are key.
• Relationship Building: whether internally or with clients, practices the ability to be personal, understanding and a desire to do what’s best for the team and the client.

Qualifications

• Graduate of a four-year college or university.
• 1–2 years of media planning experience.
• Experience successfully managing individual deliverables, previous involvement in developing and managing media programs and responding to the flow of client media-related needs.
• Sufficient communication skills across internal teams and client-facing contacts.
• Comfort planning across channels and platforms.
• Readiness to learn the client service aspect of media planning.
• Command of media fundamentals and ability to educate an Assistant.
• Ready to take on management responsibilities.
• Understanding of key research sources.
• Some knowledge of current trends and innovations in media.
• Comfort with trafficking, data, analytics and measurement.

Benefits

Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we’re focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together.