Director, Paid Social - CPG

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$90K/yr – $215K/yrDirector/Executive7+ years expFull time

Posted 11 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and lead paid social strategy and execution for CP G campaigns, driving planning, optimization, and cross-functional collaboration.

  • Lead social planning, activation, and performance storytelling.
  • Partner across teams to integrate social with ecommerce and retail.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead paid social strategy across assigned CPG campaigns, including recommendations, plan development, activation oversight, and performance narrative.
  • Define the role of social across the funnel, including awareness, engagement, consideration, traffic, retail influence, ecommerce connectivity, and learning agenda support.
  • Translate brand and business objectives into platform priorities, audience approaches, creative considerations, budget recommendations, testing plans, and measurement expectations.
  • Develop proactive social POVs, partner recommendations, platform updates, beta opportunities, and optimization opportunities aligned to category and campaign needs.
  • Lead social inputs across annual, long-range, and cycle-level planning, including strategy development, tactical planning, creative requirements, launch readiness, reporting, and learning closeout.
  • Partner across strategy, activation, operations, analytics, creative, commerce, retail media, and account leadership to keep social integrated into the broader media and business strategy.
  • Create clarity across cross-functional handoffs by defining required inputs, timing, owners, risks, and next steps before launch.
  • Lead the paid social team across planning, launch, optimization, reporting, partner management, and client communication.
  • Develop talent through coaching, feedback, platform education, stretch opportunities, and broader business context.
  • Identify training needs and build scalable ways of working, playbooks, templates, and best practices.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or relevant post-secondary education, training, or equivalent experience.
  • 7+ years of business experience, including 5+ years building, managing, or leading paid social accounts in social marketing, digital media, or interactive advertising.
  • Experience supporting CPG, home care, retail-connected, or multi-brand portfolio work preferred.
  • Deep understanding of the paid social landscape, including Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, Snap, Reddit, YouTube Shorts, creator amplification, brand lift studies, platform testing, social commerce, and emerging social search behaviors.
  • Strong understanding of how social connects to ecommerce, retail media, creative readiness, audience strategy, reporting, and integrated campaign planning.
  • Polished presentation, communication, analytical, and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities at once.
  • Proactive, solutions-oriented mindset with the ability to sell and deliver value to clients and internal stakeholders.
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OMD is the world’s largest media network, with more than 14,000 people working across more than 100 countries.At OMD, We Create What’s Next — delivering creative media solutions to drive sustainable growth for the world’s leading brands. Named the best-performing global media network overall by RECMA, the highest-ranked media agency network on the Effie Effectiveness Index, and Media Network of the Year at the 2025 Cannes Festival of Media, OMD is a leader in innovation, creativity, and cultural relevance.

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Referral
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