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20560- Manager, Communications Design


Job Location:

New York City, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 29 September 2026 (4 days ago)
Application Deadline: 27 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Agency:

Initiative

Job Function:

Media

Job Subfunction:

Media Planning and Buying



Job Description:

Business Overview

We believe in the power of media to reshape our industry and orchestrate a brands entire consumer experience by balancing both what unites people and what makes them different. When brands unite people in culture they build Fame and when brands connect individuals to their unique journeys they build customer Flow. Initiative builds Fame & Flow for brands like Amazon Merck and T-Mobile. Media responsibility is at the forefront of everything we do whether its creating media plans that reflect the diversity of our communities promote brand safety and foster sustainability.

Our agency celebrates diversity in an inclusive environment where all of our 6000 strong talent across 90 markets feel seen heard and valued. Our vision is to create not only a better media company but also a better media industry and maybe even a better world.

We make a promise to our people that we double down on seeing celebrating & elevating all the things that make you uniquely you. And just as we do for our brands and clients we connect our people to the journeys that matter in building a meaningful career.

There are four Is in Initiative and these represent our core values and behaviors:

  • INDIVIDYOUALITY you bring your genuine and unique self to and into the work every day.
  • INSTINCT youre tuned in and armed with intelligence; you have a bias for action shit happens when youre around.
  • IMPACT! you care deeply about the impact you have on our clients their customers our community the media landscape and our world at large.
  • IMAGINATION your ability to imagine and bring to life the ideas solutions and the future of Initiative makes us THE create media agency in the world.

Position Summary

We are seeking a dynamic Manager Communications Design to lead a high-performing team. As the Manager Comms Design you will play a pivotal role in crafting context-rich analysis to inform decisions that drive impact across multiple Lines of Business.

You will be responsible for leading workstreams (with the support of your Director and Group Director) that deliver innovative media strategies while ensuring seamless coordination across multiple stakeholders and crafting compelling stories that resonate with executive-level audiences.

This is an excellent opportunity for a media expert who thrives in a fast-paced collaborative and high exposure environment. If you want to push the standard conventions of media planning you have come to the right place. We work to shape the future state.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a dedicated media team in the development execution and optimization of multi-channel media strategies.
  • Use data and analytics to drive strategic media planning and decision-making ensuring connectivity across business goals media choices and measurable KPIs.
  • Collaborate across craft teams (strategy planning partnerships business leadership) and external partners (media vendors agencies etc.) to build insightful data-rich artifacts/presentations that inform big and small business decisions.
  • Oversees centralized Budget Management efforts ensuring timely accurate and consistent delivery on a recurring cadence.
  • Deliver clear and concise performance reports and competitive analysis that connect context with results in a compelling narrative.
  • Stay up to date with industry trends emerging technologies and best practices to ensure campaigns remain innovative and effective.
  • Foster a collaborative high-performance team culture focused on delivering excellence growth and development for team members.

Required Skills & Experience

  • Experience in Media Planning Audience Insights Analytics Strategy or Communications disciplines
  • Media planning skills must be sufficient and able to be taught to junior team members
  • Ability to delegate develop and oversee direct reports
  • Excellent written verbal communication and presentation skills
  • Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office (MS Word Excel PowerPoint etc.)
  • Effortlessly detail-oriented
  • Proactively takes action to support the team with limited guidance when deadlines do not allow for tasks to be specifically broken down
  • Initiative does not require candidates to have a college degree

Desired Skills & Experience

  • 4 years relevant experience with 1 years of experience in managing or developing staff
  • Category or audience experience as relevant per assignment
  • Strong time-management and organizational skills
  • Proven problem-solving ability
  • Comfortability organizing data and developing compelling graphs
  • Patience and diligence deriving insights from data and craft both simple and complex narratives to fulfill a purpose or decision

80000 - 90000



Omnicoms policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time and many of our agencies as well as Omnicoms corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.


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