{"id":1476562,"url":"https://alion.io/job/omnicom-executive-director-performance","title":"Executive Director, Performance","company":{"id":720301,"name":"Omnicom","domain":"omc.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/omnicom","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":null},"role":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"head","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":100000,"max_usd":196000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":35},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-08-06T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-08-06","last_verified_at":"2026-09-30T01:21:57Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":56,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":56},"description":"Agency:\nOmdJob Function:\nMediaJob Subfunction:\nMedia Planning and BuyingJob Description:\nThe opportunity:We are seeking an Executive Director to join our dedicated agency team supporting one of the world's most exciting technology brands. This role sits within the entertainment and streaming arm of their business, with a primary focus on driving subscription growth through Connected TV (CTV) advertising.\nYou will own the client relationship end-to-end for this line of business, lead a team of four digital performance specialists, and work as a peer alongside team leads covering Planning, Digital, and Marketing Science, collectively delivering a best-in-class, always-on performance programme. This role reports directly to the Agency Partner leading on the overall business.\nThis is a rare opportunity to shape strategy and execution at the intersection of digital performance and the rapidly evolving CTV landscape. We are looking for a seasoned digital performance leader who brings rigour, creativity, and commercial instinct to everything they do. Direct CTV experience is a plus, but not a prerequisite and full training will be provided. What matters most is a performance mindset, a passion for results, and the ability to lead teams and clients with confidence\nThe role:\nClient Ownership:\nOwn the primary client relationship for this line of business as the go-to strategic partner.\nTake full accountability for client satisfaction, measured through regular feedback and TRR scores, ensuring the highest standard of service is consistently delivered.\nLead the delivery of regular in-flight performance updates, status updates, and QBRs. Translating complex data into clear, compelling narratives.\nWork with your team to build and present weekly performance reports and insight-led decks that tell the story of campaign progress, surfacing actionable recommendations in a digestible format.\nSpend approximately half a day per week at the client's offices to maintain a close, trusted, on-site presence.\nTeam Leadership & Collaboration:\nLead, develop, and inspire a team of four: one Director, two Managers, and one Senior Executive.\nSet clear goals, foster a culture of accountability and curiosity, and support career growth across all levels.\nCollaborate closely with peer team leads across Planning, Digital, and Marketing Science to ensure integrated, joined-up delivery across the business.\nContribute actively to the wider agency team through sharing knowledge, supporting cross-team initiatives, and helping to build a positive, high-performing agency culture.\nBe willing to roll up your sleeves and get hands-on when it counts. This is a leader who leads from the front.\nDigital Performance & CTV Execution:\nDrive best-in-class campaign setup, execution, and optimisation across digital performance channels, with a strong emphasis on CTV environments.\nLead the optimisation of CTV display activity to deliver efficient subscription results across key streaming platforms and devices in a multi-market always on campaign.\nOwn and develop relationships with CTV and digital partners including Amazon, Google, Samsung, LG, Roku, and others - staying ahead of emerging buy types, formats, and opportunities.\nLead optimisation sessions for burst campaigns across a variety of lines of business that involves search, social, and programmatic channel teams.\nInsight, Reporting & Optimisation:\nRegularly analyse media, on-site, and app data to surface both campaign specific and broader business insights.\nBuild and maintain structured optimisation plans, ensuring recommendations are implemented effectively across channels and vendors.\nAssess and provide feedback on in-platform optimisations across all active channels.\nAd Operations, Technical & Creative Co-ordination:\nBuild trust and improve processes with internal operations and tracking teams to ensure all digital activity runs as smoothly as possible.\nWork closely with marketing science teams to improve the quality of data being received and analysed.\nOversee the relationship between clients and other Omnicom agencies that handle additional creative production needs.\nAbout You:\nProven track record of delivering results in performance-led digital campaigns across one or more channels, with broad cross-channel knowledge.\nA natural leader - experienced in managing teams across multiple seniority levels, with a coaching mindset and a high bar for quality.\nExceptional at turning data into story. You can build a weekly report or QBR deck that doesn't just show numbers - it tells a narrative and drives action.\nStrong client presence that involves being confident when presenting to senior stakeholders, able to think on your feet, and skilled at simplifying complexity into clear communication.\nDeep familiarity with digital media KPIs and how to move them, across both upper and lower funnel objectives.\nUp to date on with latest ad tech. Knowledge of CTV platforms and buy types is an advantage, but not a mandatory need.\nProactive and solutions-oriented - always looking for the next improvement, insight, or opportunity.\nComfortable operating in a fast-paced global agency environment.\nDegree educated or equivalent professional experience.\nAbout the Agency:\nAt OMD EMEA, we strive to deliver on our promise of ‘better decisions, faster‘ for our clients, partners and all 6,000+ OMDers across our region every day. As part of the world’s largest media network, our business is staging experiences for consumers who have more choice and less attention than ever before. The key to the process is empathy. Empathy to see the world through the eyes of the consumer, to recognise the needs of our clients and to identify aspirations of our talent.\nLearn Fast, Act Fast. To help navigate the road to a ‘new normal’, learning from, and acting upon data signals at scale and speed is crucial. Visit Why OMD? to learn more about our unique Act Fast Framework.\nOur working pattern for colleagues is to be present in the office three days a week at our offices in London with the other days available to work remotely. Let us know if you have any questions about our working pattern as part of your application and interview process.\n\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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