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Programmatic & Display Business Director
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Performance Media
Job Description
About the Role:
The MG Programmatic & Display team are a 40+ strong team of programmatic & display specialists that work across a varied roster of clients including Specsavers, John Lewis & Partners, SharkNinja, Apple, Renault and VMO2 amongst others. Responsible for both programmatic and direct IO buys, the team are tasked with ensuring we are consistently putting forward innovative ideas that help to challenge and grow our clients' digital strategies. The successful candidate will oversee a team of directors, managers and executives specifically working across a hub of MG OMD’s client portfolio. The role will report into the Head of Programmatic and focus on supporting the team to develop best-in-class integrated strategies and campaigns.
About You
The successful candidate should possess the following skills:
- 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
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About The Agency
MG OMD was established in 1990 as a challenger media agency (Manning Gottlieb Media) that placed craft, trust and performance at the heart of media planning and buying.
Since joining Omnicom network’s OMG (Omnicom Media Group) in 1998, we have continued to retain our founding ethos of providing clients with bespoke approaches, unprecedented insight, specialism, security and transparency; helping our clients to use media to unlock their competitive advantage and deliver innovative, effective and award-winning work and campaigns that create difference that matters.
MG OMD is the second-largest media agency in the UK. We are the most awarded media agency in both the history of the IPA Effectiveness Awards and Thinkbox’s TV Planning Awards and have this year been named as Agency of the Year in The Media Leader UK awards, Campaign Global awards and Campaign UK awards.
With over 500 employees working across some of the UK’s leading brands including the John Lewis Partnership, Virgin Media O2, British Airways, Specsavers, HM Government, LNER, Sony Pictures and Age UK; it is our people who ultimately make the award-winning difference.
So, true to our ethos, we work hard at creating a spirit and atmosphere that inspires our people to be considerate, honest, and professional whilst also being stimulating, imaginative and inspirational.
We want people who are great to work with, fun to be with and who genuinely care; about each other, our clients, our media partners and doing great work.
In return, we provide an amazingly collaborative culture, where open communication and an unwavering commitment to diversity of thinking, diversity of background and diversity of skillsets runs through everything we do. All backed up by the highest standards of training, development and support in the industry; so much so, that we have attained IPA (Institute of Practitioners in Advertising) CPD Gold Accreditation for the 13th year running and maintained our CPD Platinum Accreditation for the 7th consecutive year, showcasing our commitment to continuous professional development. We were also featured in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work in both 2023 and 2024. Our being named is completely based on the opinions and perspectives of our employees which makes the accolade all that more special.
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