Managing Partner, Client Leadership

About the Role:

OMD EMEA are looking for a Managing Partner on the Philips business. You’ll use your experience as a media specialist, leading a global multidisciplinary team to deliver high quality, integrated outputs as a Centre of Excellence overseeing the global network’s output and being accountable for driving excellence on the business. 

You will be responsible for the seamless running of the global agency operating model for media, ensuring the best media thinking and work is delivered amongst key regions and teams. You will accomplish this by working with your team of specialists and coaching them to deliver their best work as well as bringing in your knowledge and training them to think holistically. You will be expected to drive innovation that can improve client performance as well as developing processes across team operations. 

Philips is a global leader in health technology, committed to improve billions of lives worldwide and striving to make the world healthier and more sustainable through innovation, driven by the vision of better tomorrow.

Over the last 4 years, we have developed a transformative, media-led advertising model on the Royal Philips account. Through deep client partnership and cross-Omnicom collaboration, we aim to deliver impactful experiences both internally and with consumers.

With a focus on global enablement, the central OMD EMEA team’s purpose is to keep all stakeholders – central, local, agency and client – informed, aligned and trained, so that the best of the OMD network shows up in all of our work.

About You:

• You will be a highly regarded practitioner within your field, with extensive commercial experience. You need to have an excellent understanding of media agency business, either by working in or closely with an agency, with international scope.
• You will have a number of years experience in communications - with proven expertise in delivering against marketing objectives and broader agency and relationship KPIs.
• Defining the key priorities and workstreams for Philips at a global level and collaborating with the regions to translate and define across the markets.
• Driving connection and knowledge sharing between the different Omnicom teams and agencies for Philips across the globe.
• You must have experience of managing people, and you should have experience managing and owning relationships with senior clients, responsible for the overall relationship and show you can run profitable teams.
• You will take a leadership role on new business pitches, and you'll enjoy presenting your work in pitches.
• You will lead all your client relationships and be accountable for defining their annual growth plan and centralised global media and data team scope of work.
• Ability to construct and motivate high performance amongst teams.
• Comfortable and passionate engaging and persuading the most senior internal & client stakeholders.
• Ability to run a P&L for your teams business (including associated specialisms).
• You will ensure the team is appropriately resourced and using the full range of available agency skill sets.
• You will be responsible for the quality of response across all channels & specialisms, looking to deliver industry leading, award winning work.
• Strong network management skills. You will be the overseer of ensuring that strategic excellence and operational delivery are aligned and achieved. You will be the point of escalation for agency and market challenges and able to resolve any issues
• You will be a trusted advisor to your clients with a deep understanding of their priorities and challenges. Based on these objectives, you will define the team's scope of work and make sure this scope is delivered.

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.