Head of Digital PR

Agency: Omnicom Media

Job Function: Creative

Job Subfunction: Creative Direction

Job Description:

Summary:

The Head of Digital PR is a pivotal role responsible for driving service integration and growth, streamlining processes, and fostering a culture of innovation within the Digital PR team. This role will ensure the effective delivery of Digital PR work that drives performance results, cultivate strong cross-functional relationships, and lead initiatives to enhance Digital PR opportunities in the business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leadership & growth
  
  Leading, motivating and engaging the Digital PR team to ensure effective andhigh quality execution.
• Ensuring a performance-centric client-focus approach to servicing across the team.
• Forging strong relationships with key stakeholders across the business and externally, including leadership, clients, account teams, and other agencies.
• Taking ownership of overall Digital PR revenuewith the goal ofretainingand growing clients.
• Regularly workingon pitches and proposals, supporting opportunities as required, and overseeing scopes and pricingacross the team.
• Championing the Digital PR department internally and externally,participating in thought-leadership and knowledge sharing.
• Monitoring industry trends and technological innovations to ensure our Digital PR and Organic Social proposition continues to innovate andevolve as a superior product.

Strategy and measurement
Work with the team to ensure the delivery of comprehensive PR and organice social strategies and execution that drive measurable results
Ensuring our approach to Digital PR and organic social strategy is data-informed, pulling together the right insights to tell a clear story.
Working closely with other teams to create measurement dashboards that demonstrate Digital PR’s performance impact.

Digital PR delivery
Supporting larger key and often more complex Digital PR accounts as senior sponsor on a regular basis.
Having a holistic view of all accounts and supporting as and where needed, on a troubleshooting basis.
Establishing effectiveprocesses, quality standards, and guidelines across the team, including the usage of AI day-to-day.

Team development
Direct line manager for Group Account Directors and Account Director, and responsible for all team members within Digital PR.
Responsible for leading overall people development in the team– driving training,development and overall standards.

Team operations
Ensuring effective capacity and resource planning across the team,making recommendations for recruitment as and where required.
Overseeing our supplier base and ensuring effective partnerships, driving efficiencies.
Analysing utilisation data to help driveprofit margins and efficienciesacross the team.

Skills & competencies
Leadership and management of people
Commercial acumen
Working under pressure,organisationandprioritisation
Client and stakeholder relationship management
Strategic and creative thinking
Strong digital PR background

Omnicom’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.

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