SVP, Media

Responsibilities

• Serve as senior counsel to designated clients and account teams
• Develop a consultative relationship between team members, account teams and key client contacts
• Regular and proactive one-on-one interactions, and direct correspondence with teams and clients
• Quickly synthesize what it takes to make a story mediable in a fast-changing landscape
• Established network of relationships and contacts across the corporate and business landscape
• Secure placements in tier one outlets across print, online, broadcast and new media formats
• Willingness to travel for client media engagements
• Play a leadership role on the media specialty team
• Help shape the agency perspective on media relations and strategy as an agency media expert
• Lead the Earned Media Team both in the office and virtually
• Increase visibility for best practices, trends, developments in media relations
• Manage team members and mentor staff across teams
• Nurture and foster media relationships
• Proactively share feedback and insights with clients and teams
• Manage feedback, expectations and results for projects with assigned practices
• Evolving and establishing feedback standards
• Seek incremental business opportunities with existing account teams/clients
• Lead the media strategy portion of the proposal and presentation processes

Qualifications

• BS/BA degree in marketing, media, communications, business or related field
• Minimum of twelve years of combined public relations, marketing communications, or media experience
• Demonstrated success in senior level media relations
• Strategic understanding of all channels (including social media, video, and content partnerships) in relation to media mix
• Knowledge of Ketchum’s proprietary tools and ability to apply them to client work
• Ability to share media related insights and trends with teams and clients
• Strong quantitative and analytical abilities
• Past training and skills relevant to the role
• Ability to make a professional and positive impression with senior management within client organizations
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize, meet deadlines and keep manager and team effectively updated on task progress
• Excellent verbal, written, project management and presentation skills

Benefits

The salary range for this position is $180,000 to $220,000. This position may be bonus eligible depending on individual employee performance and Ketchum business performance.

Pay

$180,000 to $220,000

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.