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Omnicom Media Group UK

Strategy Director - Merlin

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The Strategy Director is responsible for strategic planning and collaboration with teams to create effective marketing solutions for clients, focusing on campaign insight and new business opportunities.
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The Role is a unique opportunity to further your career as a marketing strategist on some of the world’s best brands. Working into an experienced Strategy Partner or Managing Partner of Strategy, your responsibility will be to create brilliant strategic thinking that powers the day-to-day campaign planning of some of our biggest clients, and take a leading role shaping the overall media strategy of some of our smaller clients. You will inspire cross agency teams to build creative and effective solutions for client, which help them build competitive advantage.

You will play a leading role in identifying the insight and shaping the ideas at the heart of those campaigns, collaborating with external agency partners to create integrated and effective recommendations for our clients. In addition, you will play a critical role in new business and agency culture, leading the strategy on some smaller pitches, contributing to agency training initiatives, and helping produce thought-leadership.

The Clients would be a mix of Tier 1 (contributing), Tier 2 and Tier 3, including an exciting new business win for OMD UK, Merlin Entertainments! With a breadth of brilliant attractions and themeparks across the UK, including Alton Tower, Thorpe Park, The London Eye, Warwick Castle, Sea Life centres nationally, and so many more, it is a fantastic opportunity to join this newly formed team and partnership for the agency.

About the Agency:

At OMD UK, we create what's next for our clients and our people, unlocking extraordinary growth via industry-leading capabilities. We transform better customer understanding into marketing impact, with world-class talent and technology, and we do this with some of the world’s most iconic and influential brands.  

We are part of the world’s largest media network, with more than 12,000 people working in over 100 countries and are currently AdWeek’s Global Media Agency of the Year.  

https://omduk.com/   


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 showcase your talents 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 [email protected] 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/. 

Omnicom Media Group UK London, England Office

Bankside 2, 90-100 Southwark Street, London, United Kingdom, SE1 0SW

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