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27604-Director, Planning


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:

UM

Job Function:

Media

Job Subfunction:

Media Planning and Buying



Job Description:

Position Overview

As Director Planning youll support the vision and strategic plan for the account ensuring success across Work Quality Client Relationships Financials and Team Health. Youll play a key role in planning and executing media strategies integral to their business success and launch industry-leading work that propels the business forward.

Responsibilities

  • Understand client objectives and ensure translation into actionable and measurable media objectives strategies and plan KPIs.

  • Manage and provide team leadership to the media plan process including ideation formation presentation and implementation.

  • Manage multiple campaigns at a time across multiple channels when needed.

  • Manage the integration and partnership of internal cross functional SBU partners across clients business as appropriate.

  • Work with SBU partners to ensure strategic alignment with performance-based campaigns (Search/Social/Programmatic).

  • Lead relationships with SBUs client agencies and internal teams to evaluate and select the right partners for investment.

  • Work closely with strategy and analytics to identify appropriate data strategies to promote growth.

  • Ensure plans deliver upon KPIs by providing measurement touch bases throughout the campaigns.

  • Ensure full budget utilization tracking and stewardship across all reporting markets based on client specific needs.

  • Responsible and accountable to the implementation of media plan and deliverables driving relationship with internal teams and partners including strategy buying analytics and SBUs

Required Skills and Experience

  • Excellent written verbal and presentation skills

  • High level of comfort presenting to all levels of clients and internal senior management

  • Self-Starter demonstrates initiative

  • Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously

  • Thrives in fast paced environment; nimble flexible and solution-oriented

  • Solid awareness of industry trends and planning/measurement models

  • Ability to incorporate agency tools/practices/products

  • UM does not require candidates to have a college degree

Desired Skills and Experience

  • 6-8 years of experience within integrated planning; 3 years as a people manager

  • Collaborative mindset; effective at communicating across multiple departments (client broadcast buying team analytics team OOH team etc.)

  • Prioritizes mentorship and career development of team

  • Proven track record with client relations and growing existing business

130000.00 - 150000.00



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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Director


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