Associate Director, Paid Social

Agency:

PHd

Job Function:

Media

Job Subfunction:

Performance Media

Job Description:

About the job

PHD is a global communications planning and media buying agency network delivering smart strategic thinking and creative innovation for the world’s leading brands. Brilliant media thinking is in our DNA. A culture of thought-leadership, creativity and innovation has seen us grow from a challenger agency in the UK, to a global leader with over 6,000 employees in over 100 offices worldwide. We combine the latest industry insight with the best creative minds to produce planning innovation and create award-winning work for some of the world’s largest advertisers. Finding a better way is our ethos and sums up how we approach everything – from a new client brief to the way we work.

The Role

Paid Media Associate Directors own the Advertising function on their book of clients. This includes developing overall paid media strategy, helping to grow the client’s business through additional advertising channels and ensuring team execution meets and exceeds client expectations.

Job Responsibilities
 

• Effectively manage and lead all Advertising team members on particular client team(s)
• Identify training and development needs of client team and broader functional team
• Develop processes, methodologies, best practices and frameworks for client team and broader functional team; work with team members to ensure they are being used
• Consulting with individual client teams as needed to ensure best practices are being used and to brainstorm new approaches to achieving client goals
• Lead hiring process for Advertising team members on their client team
• Oversight for on boarding new clients within their office location
• Ensure integration with other functional teams
   

Grow Business

 

• Determine how to increase and expand paid media services for their clients
• Help identify and test new channels and products, highlighting results and sharing across organization and externally
• Ensure advertising strategy aligns with client’s overall business goals
• Help business development team develop and present pitches, including providing oversight and guidance to junior team members assisting with the process
• Main point of contact for search engine partners
• Oversee terms and conditions, IOs, etc, including legal review and team communication
• Point of escalation for engine related issues
• Manage logins, ensure compliance
• Responsible to ensure all client teams are informed of new products and engine enhancements
• Coordinate presentations from providers for Advertising team or broader agency
• Coordinate QBR from key engine partners
   

Qualifications

 

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, advertising or communications
• 5+ years of work experience managing accounts focused on delivering and optimizing social/search marketing and/or other interactive advertising campaigns
• Possess advanced knowledge of direct marketing principles and strategies
• Have polished presentation, communication and listening skills
   

This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on relevant experience, other job-related qualifications/skills, and geographic location (to account for comparative cost of living). The Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. For this role, benefits include: health insurance, vision insurance, dental insurance, 401(k), Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, vacation days, sick days, personal days, paid parental leave, paid medical leave, and STD/LTD insurance benefits.

 

$70,000-$125,000

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.

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