Programmatic & Display Business Director

London, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior LevelFull time

Posted 1 month ago

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Job Summary

Own and scale the programmatic function by leading a multi‑layer team, defining vision, and driving data driven campaigns across channels while advising clients and opening new business opportunities.

  • Team Leadership: mentor programmatic specialists and foster a high performing, collaborative culture.
  • Strategic Ownership: set the agency's programmatic vision and ensure it guides cross channel media plans and measurement.
  • Provide high level client guidance to turn programmatic insights into success and growth opportunities.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead, mentor and manage a team of programmatic specialists, providing training and development opportunities, and encouraging a collaborative and high- performing environment
  • Define and drive the agency’s programmatic vision, ensuring cutting-edge strategies and best practices are implemented
  • Serve as a senior advisor to clients, providing high-level strategic guidance and ensuring programmatic is a key driver of success
  • Ensure the programmatic activity through the team aligns with wider digital and offline media strategies for a holistic approach
  • Promote a data-driven approach to campaign planning, execution and performance reporting, ensuring robust measurement frameworks
  • Maintain oversight of the client audit process for the channel to ensure targets are met and potential issues are escalated
  • Identify new opportunities within programmatic, including media efficiencies, data strategies and tech innovations to drive business growth
  • Build strong relationships with media partners, technology providers and industry bodies to drive innovation and commercial negotiations, maximising value and efficiency for our clients
  • Support and present as part of a team in delivery of new business pitch, departmental and agency-wide meetings
  • Stay ahead of industry developments, emerging trends, and technological advancements to keep the agency and clients competitive

Requirements

  • Experience in managing a large, multi-layered team and a desire to continue this
  • Ability to lead your team to develop and plan strategies to achieve agency commercial goals
  • Ability to manage multiple clients, ensure all deadlines are met and that team output is always of the highest quality
  • Confident and effective leader
  • Advanced knowledge of cross channel and ad tech market
  • Strong understanding of digital landscape and how programmatic fits into the media plan
  • Negotiation skills to deliver best commercial value for client
  • Confidently lead presentations with a strong and compelling narrative
  • Develop and plan strategies to achieve agency commercial goals
  • Advanced analytical skills to interrogate and develop best practice processes

Benefits

  • Flexible Working
  • At Omnicom Media Group, we are committed to supporting flexibility for our people while fostering collaboration, innovation, and teamwork. We have a hybrid working model (three days in the office, two working remotely), to ensure that we meet the needs of both our people and our business, balancing the benefits of in-person connections with the flexibility of remote working. Our standard working hours are 9:30 – 17:30, but we offer the ability to flex around core hours of 10:30 – 16:30 to give our people flexibility on how they manage their working day, whether that’s in the office or working remotely. For example, you could start work at 8:30 and finish at 16:30 or start at 10:30 and finish at 18:30.
  • We encourage open conversations between our people and managers to help navigate high-need periods and individual circumstances. Our goal is to create an environment where people feel genuinely supported to do their best - both in their careers and in their lives outside of work.
  • Be Your Best
  • We want everyone to make the most of the opportunity to shine and we are happy to make adjustments in the recruitment process so you can be your best. Please discuss any specific requirements with your dedicated Talent Team member or if you would feel more comfortable, you can email us confidentially at beyourbest@omnicommediagroup.com to let us know how we can support you.
  • Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at OMG
  • At OMG, our vision is to be an agency where difference is valued and everyone is able to thrive in a culture of equality, inclusion and belonging. We are committed to providing a truly inclusive environment that reflects today’s society, where everyone is able to bring their true selves to work, and where diverse voices and backgrounds are valued, heard, and well-represented.
  • We will process your personal data in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice which is available on https://omnicommediagroup.com/recruitment-privacy-notices/.
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Omnicom Media UK

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OMG UK delivers transformational experiences for consumers, clients and talent. Powered by the Omni marketing orchestration system, OMG connects best-in-class capabilities that enable our full-service media agencies OMD, MG OMD, PHD and Hearts & Science to deliver more relevant and actionable consumer experiences, more productive and proactive client experiences, and more collaborative and rewarding talent experiences.We are enormously proud of our Agency and Network of the Year accolades, including most recently, PHD named Adweek’s Global Media Agency of the Year, MG OMD named Thinkbox TV Planning Agency of the Year, and OMG Unite named Media Agency of the Year at the Leadership and Diversity Awards.We are committed to providing a truly inclusive environment where everyone is able to bring their true selves to work, diverse voices and minority communities are valued, heard and well represented, and where everyone is able to thrive in a culture of equality, inclusion and fairness.

Founded in 2000
London, England, GBR
2K employees (446 in marketing)
60% recommend to a friend
75% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
18.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
40.1%
Direct
42.9%
Referral
9.4%
Social
5.6%
Paid
1.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~2K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
410 (21% of company)

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