Managing Partner

The Managing Partner, Performance is responsible for overseeing our regional digital activation team, and providing digital leadership across a patch of clients. This is a transformative role within the agency, to ensure we deliver best in class digital and performance media strategies. You will be responsible for ensuring the regional delivery of best-in-class media strategies and execution, driving connected strategies across branding, performance media and ecommerce, and aligning to our client’s business priorities.

You will be defining and driving the digital transformation and innovation agenda, ensuring we stay at the forefront of precision marketing.

The ideal candidate will be a proactive, a problem-solver, with a proven background in performance media to deliver best service for the client. We would prefer a candidate that has grown with in-platform experience, who can talk fluently to both client side strategic leads as well as technical specialists.

Specific areas of responsibilities involve:

• Key client stakeholder management across regional client functions and local Client teams;
  This role will work with multiple seasoned senior level experts across our organisation and key client stakeholders (Media, Creative, CRM, technology, etc) driving connection and knowledge sharing.
• Ensuring the strategic and tactical output of the Digital Activation Hub is market leading, following the clients platform specific Golden Rules of technical operations
• Work with local market agency specialists, advising on how local digital plans (typically direct IO, influencers, local eCom) compliment and align the digital direction your team has set for the region and market
• Strategic digital lead for global partnerships focused on driving innovation, business acceleration and actively identifying new opportunities to benefit the business
• Deliver thought leadership and clear point of views in every opportunity – the ideal candidate will have a strong data literacy as well as digital acumen and is able to rapidly respond to client inquiry
• Direct management of client digital activation team including the Executive Directors and channel leads
• Building a digital community and strong collaboration across the regions and local markets
• Collaboratively define the key priorities and work streams for the client at a regional level
• P&L and SOW ownership across all performance media work streams for Digital Activation Hub, and oversight/support on locally owned digital scope
• Additionally, you will be a part of the OMD EMEA Performance Community leadership, helping define our key priorities as an agency, contributing to internal priorities, work streams and knowledge sharing

About You:

• Demonstrable experience managing digital media;
  Proven background in performance media, with expertise across paid search, paid social, programmatic, direct display and ecommerce, with a depth of specialism in at least one
• Experience with advanced analytics (analysing econometric, MTA results, etc) and investment productivity reporting for digital
• Proven ability to independently manage multiple departments and stakeholders in a fast-paced environment
• Knowledge of media agency ecosystem
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills; able to apply different communication styles in different situations
• Excellent organizational and leadership skills with cultural agility to interact with a global network
• Strong attention to detail
• Activation experience, coupled with strategic expertise
• Excellent team management
• Demonstrated ability to work in a collaborative environment, manage and influence key stakeholders including executive team members to ensure successful project deployment and delivery
• You will be very comfortable managing relationships with clients and colleagues, and will have experience managing a team of specialists, working with them to ensure efficiency of output and quality of work.
• Whilst you may not have been hands on within all of the digital channels, you will have specialised in one field and understand the work required to activate digital campaigns.
• We are looking to you to be a leader in the performance team, overseeing output of the…