Manager, Client Leadership

About the Role:

An opportunity to join a global account and international team that plans and supports EMEA markets out of London. This role is ideal for someone with established media planning, strategy and thinking, and wants to work on one of the world's most iconic brands.

Within the team we strive for flawless execution and often work in high pressure, innovative and quick moving environments. We are looking for somebody who’s adaptable, curious and who stresses the detail. Somebody who feels like they would thrive in situations like this and wants to push the boundaries of what’s possible.

The Account Manager will be responsible for managing and bringing to life smart global campaigns with the best local approach for both offline and online media channels. Candidates should have previous agency experience with solid media fundamentals, ideally in an international role and a good understanding of EMEA markets.

The role would suit someone who is highly organized, strategic and looking to work in a full-service agency environment, relishing the opportunity to work on a single client and develop with the brand and agency as a whole.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the director, and manage the day-to-day running of the account
• Manage day to day workloads of junior team members and help facilitate their career and skill progression.
• Brief, and coordinate media planning process with local and specialist teams
• Stay on top of all deliverables – booking deadlines, delivery deadlines, launch timings – across all media & communicate as appropriate
• Create and present concise and good-looking presentations for multiple stakeholders including clients
• Bring together different media plan elements in a cohesive, integrated way
• Oversee campaign budget and tracking for different lines of business
• Be a key point of contact for local European and global teams
• Work closely with local teams and media vendors to identify new opportunities / partnerships
• liaise with creative agency on best practices and building relationship

Desired Skills/Experience:

• Passion for and interest in international media planning / buying
• Strong time management & organisational skills.
• Strong financial acumen and numeracy
• High attention to detail and follow-through
• Ability to multi-task and work with several stakeholders. Account is fast paced and comms heavy
• Enjoys working within a close-knit team
• Confident presentations skills in front of agency and to clients
• An eye for design
• Strong media math skills
• Excel skills required

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.

Learn Fast, Act Fast. To help navigate the road to a ‘new normal’, learning from, and acting upon data signals at scale and speed is crucial. Visit Why OMD? to learn more about our unique Act Fast Framework.

Our working pattern for colleagues is to be present in the office three days a week at our offices in London with the other days available to work remotely. Let us know if you have any questions about our working pattern as part of your application and interview process.