Media Planning and Buying (Planning)_05M

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$90K/yr – $215K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 11 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and drive the client’s digital strategy and cross‑functional workstreams, leading integrated media planning, innovation, and client partnerships.

  • Shapes the vision and leads the team to deliver innovative digital solutions
  • Collaborates across social, data, content, and mobile to evolve the strategy
  • Partners with clients and internal teams to ensure oneOMD alignment

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • The Director manages the daily strategic needs of the business and integrates with the broader OMD teams, creative partners, media owners.
  • They act as the leading force ensuring the vision of the team and agency comes to life in the work, thought leadership and ideas.
  • The Director orchestrate a strategic mix of solutions across social media, content relationships, data strategies, mobile opportunities, and more as the digital landscape continues to evolve.
  • Collaborative Partnership – embraces and drives the oneOMD approach by building partnerships with others on behalf of our clients.
  • Creative Thinking – takes a brand, an objective and a platform and thinks of innovative ways to bring them together.
  • Hunger for Innovation – helps determine the right ones and brings them to life in impactful ways.
  • Relationship Building – practices the ability to be personal, understanding and a desire to do what’s best for the team and the client. Fully engaged and present with clients.
  • Inspiring Leadership – challenges a team to solve clients challenges in unique ways. Inspires others to try new approaches and serves as a role model to the team.

Requirements

  • Graduate of a four-year college or university
  • 10+ years of integrated media planning experience
  • Track record of handling big client ambitions
  • Ability to create and execute a holistic channel approach to planning
  • Experience collaborating with media owners, agency business units and creative agency partners
  • Proven leadership ability and experience managing a team; a strong desire and ability to grow and develop talent
  • Advanced knowledge of media fundamentals and an ability to educate at all levels
  • Strong comfort level with data, analytics, and measurement
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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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New York, New York, USA
4.2K employees (1,415 in marketing)
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