Director, Digital Marketing, Marketing ​/ Advertising ​/ PR

Philips is a global leader in health technology, committed to improve billions of lives worldwide and striving to make the world healthier and more sustainable through innovation, driven by the vision of better tomorrow.

Working with Philips is more than a job. It’s calling to create a healthier society through meaningful work, focused on innovative, customer-first, health technology solutions.

The role sits within the WEM Philips Performance Media team and involves working closely with our 17 markets across the region to enable the next phase of business and digital transformation for Philips. You will work with and report into the Executive Director, and work in collaboration with the wider performance team to ensure the client business objectives are met.

The WEM Performance Director is responsible for leading our digital advertising across Paid Search, Paid Social, Programmatic and Affiliates across the region for Personal Health for Philips. You will be responsible for delivering best-in-class holistic Performance Media strategies and execution, planning and delivering strategies across branding, performance media and ecommerce, and delivering on Philip’s business priorities. You will define the ways of working for WEM Performance Media, partnering with both the client to deliver their objectives, as well as the wider performance team to drive a holistic approach to performance media.

You will also line manage the Senior channel managers, therefore you will be responsible for their learning and development, and leading the overall holistic performance media strategy, activation and delivery. You will take the lead on instilling best practices, training and innovation across the EMEA hub.

The ideal candidate will be a proactive, a problem-solver, with a proven background in performance media to deliver best service for Philips.

This is an exciting role with excellent career opportunities and benefits within a high-profile team. To that end, we are looking for someone who can hit the ground running, take full ownership of the performance media strategy, and drive excellence of delivery across the account and team overall.

• Senior & high-level stakeholder management across regional Philips team
• Collaboration with local market teams
• Define and deliver the key priorities and work streams for performance media for Philips
• Define and deliver the test & learn plan for Philips
• Identify and deliver growth opportunities
• Translate the high level and future-facing planning into deliverable channel briefs and strategies
• Ensure high quality and excellent day to day delivery for performance media
• High quality, robust and actionable data and performance analysis & reporting
• Additionally, you will be a part of the OMD EMEA Performance Community, where we want you to share your expertise and knowledge

• 7+ years of demonstrable experience managing performance media
• Whilst we do not expect you to have been hands on in all channels, we do require hands-on activation background in at least one channel, and a strategic understanding of the other channels, as well as a thirst to learn more!
• Proven ability to independently manage multiple stakeholders in a fast-paced environment
• Knowledge of and experience in the media agency ecosystem
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent organizational and leadership skills
• Exemplary time management skills, able to prioritize and work well under pressure.
• Strong attention to detail
• Proven activation and planning expertise across at least one channel
• Excellent team management and training experience
• Experience working with a range of industry partners covering a breadth of inventory, audience and data solutions
• Excellent excel skills
• Excellent presentation skills, and feel comfortable building and delivering power point presentations to clients
• International experience, having a good degree of familiarity with local market nuances and vendors.
• Comfortable managing relationships with clients and colleagues, and experience managing a team of specialists, working with them to ensure efficiency of output and…