Senior Director, Media Planning

New York City, NY (On-site)

$120K/yr – $230K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own strategic leadership and cross‑functional alignment to turn bold client visions into integrated media, content, and data programs.

  • Strategic leadership: shapes the one PHD approach across clients, agencies, and creative partners.
  • Cross‑functional orchestration: owns a holistic mix of social, content, data, and mobile opportunities to stay ahead of the competition.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Manages the daily strategic needs of the business and integrates with broader PHD teams, creative partners, and 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.
  • They orchestrate a strategic mix of solutions across social media, content relationships, data strategies, mobile opportunities, and more as the digital landscape continues to evolve.
  • The Senior Director is key to helping PHD stay ahead of clients and lead the competition.
  • Collaborative Partnership – embraces and drives the one PHD 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 – our clients want and have access to truly never-been-done-before opportunities. 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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PHD

Welcome to PHD.Powered by our next-generation network, PHD’s advanced thinking - Intelligence. Connected. - combines data, technology, and human expertise collaboratively to achieve greatness.This is how we are one of the world’s most awarded media agencies, and currently ADWEEK’s Global Media Agency of the Year.We have around 6,500 people in 81 offices across 74 countries, all connected in one platform, Studio. Studio, which launched in 2018, allows our account teams, planners, and strategists worldwide to collaborate to create online campaigns, producing 70,000 unique ideas from across the agency, together.This is how we transform experiences.This is how we move brands and businesses forward.www.phdmedia.com

Founded in 2006
London, England, GBR
5K employees (1,376 in marketing)

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