Regional Client Business Lead - Uber
About the Role:
Omnicom Media Group is seeking a dynamic Regional Client Business Lead for Uber EMEA—an exciting opportunity for an individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment. The Regional Client Business Lead will oversee 20 markets across EMEA, serving as a key partner to Uber’s EMEA marketing and media leadership. They will also oversee a centralised EMEA hub responsible for centralised digital planning and buying as well as operational excellence across the region.
Key considerations for this role include:
Regional Leadership: A deep understanding of navigating complex, matrixed organizations. The Lead will collaborate closely with local teams, providing leadership and influence to ensure alignment and execution of Uber’s vision. We are seeking someone with a proven track record in similar environments, demonstrating high levels of collaboration, decisiveness, and energy.
Operational excellence: Uber is a growth focused organization, they quickly pivot their marketing strategy based on emerging business opportunities. This requires a flawless operational set up from our team to ensure that we can deliver an agile response. The successful candidate will have a strong operational profile, accustomed to managing dynamic and complex clients.
Elevated digital capability: As a future facing tech platform, Uber are digital obsessed. Our operational model is built around a commitment of elevated digital though a centralised model. We need a regional lead who is fluent in all facets of digital and has experience of driving an elevated digital agenda.
Global influence: Beyond the EMEA remit, the Lead will also be part of the global leadership team at OMG that oversee Uber. In this capacity, the Lead will work alongside global stakeholders to scale marketing best practices and deploy joint business plans. This may involve leveraging market-specific strategies and implementing them seamlessly across regions.
About You:
- Impactful in a region & markets: Effectively lead regional and local agency teams, managing complexity seamlessly to deliver on Uber’s key global and regional objectives in-market
- Strong critical thinker with robust business acumen: Skilled in resolving complex issues involving people, processes, and systems using logic and common sense
- Solution orientated: Proactively identifies root causes of problems, rather than merely addressing symptoms
- Hands on: Willing to roll up sleeves and partner closely with primary POC (Heads of Media and Marketing Ops)
- Proven ability to thrive in fast-paced environments: Quickly pivoting and guiding agency teams effectively
- Many spinning plates, no problem: Exceptional ability to manage and prioritize multiple requests and projects simultaneously
- Strong team leader: Demonstrate success in recruiting, leading, developing, and retaining high-performing teams
- Deep experience in media agency and brand side leadership roles
- Experience consulting and guiding senior marketers towards new thinking
- Success in a leadership role, developing business transformation and delivering results
- Strong strategic media planning and marketplace expertise, including large scale investment strategies, partner strategies (Upfront, JBPs)
- Working knowledge of media tech (ad serving, programmatic, data, cleanrooms, etc)
- Prior success in delivering digital and operational excellence
About the Agency:
PHD is a growth-focused media agency driven by innovation and creativity.
Founded in London in 1990, we were the first media agency to offer strategic and creative planning at a time when the industry was about buying cheaply and quickly.
Our founders saw a bright future where smart thinking and clever planning could help brands grow faster than their competitors.
Over the many years that have followed, we have continued to build on this defining ethic — with our evolution shaped by a continual investment in thought leadership. And we continue to ensure that our capability and approach evolve in line with changes in media, data, technology, commerce, society, and legislation.
Today, with over 100 offices in 74 countries, we continue to create remarkable campaigns that lead to remarkable growth – using the extending canvas of data and technology.
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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