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with analytics and media teams to design measurement frameworks, brand lift studies, attribution approaches, and learning agendas that demonstrate campaign effectiveness.\n\nTranslate campaign performance into actionable business insights and strategic recommendations for future planning.\n\nTeam Leadership & Operational Excellence\nLead, mentor, and develop junior strategists, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, innovation, and continuous learning.\n\nOversee day-to-day workload management across assigned accounts, ensuring projects are delivered on time, on budget, and to the highest quality standards.\n\nProvide ongoing coaching, constructive feedback, and professional development support to team members.\n\nDrive process improvements and operational efficiencies across social strategy, influencer workflows, reporting, and client service functions.\n\nCollaborate with leadership on team growth, resource planning, staffing, and capability development.\n\nThought 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highly regulated industries preferred.\n\nStrong understanding of performance marketing principles and the role social media plays across awareness, engagement, consideration, conversion, and loyalty objectives.\n\nProven ability to leverage audience insights, cultural intelligence, performance data, and social listening to develop impactful marketing strategies.\n\nDemonstrated success leading strategic client relationships and influencing senior stakeholders.\n\nStrong understanding of evolving social trends, platform innovation, creator ecosystems, and digital culture, with the ability to advise brands on when and how to participate.\n\nAbility to design and lead original research initiatives and translate findings into actionable strategic recommendations.\n\nExcellent storytelling, presentation, and communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex information and inspire action.\n\nGravitas and executive presence, with the ability to build credibility and influence across clients, partners, and internal teams.\n\nExperience managing, mentoring, and inspiring high-performing teams.\n\nHighly detail-oriented with strong project management skills and the ability to lead multiple initiatives simultaneously.\n\nInnovative and entrepreneurial mindset with a willingness to challenge convention, test new approaches, and learn from results.\n\nDemonstrated commitment to continuous improvement, operational excellence, and process optimization.\n\nPractical experience with leading social listening, community management, measurement, and analytics platforms. Experience with Sprinklr, Meltwater, NetBase, Quid, Pathmatics, Socialbakers, or similar platforms preferred.\n\nPassion for building inclusive, collaborative, and high-performing team cultures.\n\nWhat Makes Success in This Role\nActs as a strategic leader rather than a tactical executor.\n\nDrives measurable business outcomes through social, creator, and performance marketing programs.\n\nInfluences clients and internal stakeholders through expertise, insight, and executive-level storytelling.\n\nDevelops talent and elevates team capabilities.\n\nContinuously pushes the work-and the agency-to stay ahead of culture, platforms, and industry best practices.\n\n$120,000\nOmnicom’s 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 Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.\nOmnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we’re focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us-we look forward to getting to know you. 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