Managing Director, Client Investment-Activation Lead

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$175K/yr – $285K/yrDirector/Executive15+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own enterprise media strategy and client leadership across budgets, teams, and partnerships with a data-driven, ROI-focused mindset.

  • Strategic ownership: manage multi-channel investments, large client budgets, and executive-level stakeholder alignment.
  • Team and capability: guide a big media staff, recruit top talent, and evolve the team with a performance-driven culture.
  • Opportunity and challenges: leverage market conditions, inflation, and first-to-market opportunities to improve revenue and profitability.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead investment, activation, partnerships, thought leadership, and marketplace navigation across all media channels for a major account
  • Manage a large staff of media professionals, providing guidance on media industry best practices, negotiation skills, and crafting elevated media narratives
  • Drive innovation via unparalleled determination and ability to push boundaries with partners
  • Know the organization inside-and-out, including major stakeholders across C-suite, media, marketing, procurement
  • Possess intimate knowledge of enterprise-level business priorities and challenges, consumer habits and touchpoints, and up-to-date consumption trends across all channels
  • Deliver on annual cost guarantee via aggressive negotiations and solution-oriented savings approach
  • Effectively manage revenue projections and generate net new agency profits via proprietary products and pipeline opportunities
  • Own client budget portfolio across all channels and platforms
  • Implement and solve for staffing needs, team evolution, and succession planning
  • Serve as major stakeholder in scope proposals

Requirements

  • B.A. or B.S. in Marketing, Advertising, or a related field
  • Agency experience highly preferred, with experience managing large client account billings
  • Retail experience highly preferred, with proven track record of integrating culture, brand, and performance
  • 15+ years of experience in digital media buying, video media buying, paid social, search, programmatic, audio, etc.; experience across other channels (branded content, influencer, affiliate, commerce) a plus
  • 12+ years of management experience with strong leadership and mentorship skills
  • Successful track record and advocacy on revenue-driving agency product solutions
  • Critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making at speed
  • Proven ability to inspire, innovate, and collaborate effectively
  • Ability to recruit and retain top talent
  • Command of industry and market challenges

Benefits

  • 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.
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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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