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.

Specific areas of responsibilities involve:

• Senior & high-level stakeholder management across regional Philips team
• Collaboration with local market teams
• Define and deliver the key priorities and workstreams 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

Skills and experience requirements:

• 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 powerpoint 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 quality of work.
• Understanding of analytics platforms such as Google Analytics or Adobe Omniture
• Excellent understanding of KPI selection within performance media
• Experience activating performance media and therefore an understanding of best practice across planning, platform choice, campaign type, campaign structure, optimisation, QA, reporting, insight generation and finance
• Leadership in defining performance media buying strategies given the brief, budget and data available – challenging the client/client team where required and managing the team to deliver strategic excellence, effective testing and operationally viable output
• Ensuring team engagement and delivery of highest quality work.
• Strong relationships with key partners and up to date on their latest products.
• Collaboration with other digital teams and understanding of how different channels fit into the overall marketing mix.
• Ability to put forward recommendations and forecasts beyond CPA/CPL and showcase how activity contributes to client KPIs.
• Distill new work briefs into efficient solutions.
• Ensure work delivered by the team meets client objectives.
• Lead the client relationship day-to-day and be responsible for campaign strategy and optimisations.
• Work with the team to ensure campaigns meet targets and make necessary optimisations.
• Juggle multiple priorities and delegate work to team members.
• Creative problem‑solving and ‘outside‑the‑box’ thinking.
• Explain complex concepts to clients and colleagues in an easy‑to‑understand way.
• Build relationships with agency partners and unlock new opportunities to grow clients’ business.
• Proactively learn about new performance media developments and recommend new techniques and tactics.
• Personal evangelist for performance buying with a strong POV.
• Passionate about performance media opportunities and challenge the client to think outside the box and test new ideas.
• Lead clients’ briefs with Senior channel managers, ensuring the right data, insights and partners deliver an innovative strategy.
• Suggest efficient routes to answer any challenge.
• Protect the team against unreasonable demands on their time.
• Manage workload and ensure everyone has everything needed to deliver best work.

The Agency:

At OMD EMEA you will experience a place of work unparalleled with any other; to do the best work in your career.

With half of our employees originating from outside the UK, you will join a truly connected culture which celebrates difference and embraces diversity. This is a huge organisation, albeit one with a small agency feel.

You will play a key role in developing strong relationships and shared ethos, whilst at the same time benefit from a plethora of career opportunities and training. Undeniably, this is an agency with a grounded sense of belonging and community, one which is social and emotionally‑aware.

Everything you achieve and learn at OMD EMEA will be exciting and rich in value – everyday will be a new challenge that needs solving!

About the Agency:

At 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.

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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.

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 beyourbest@omnicommediagroup.com 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.

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