Head of Digital

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OMD Melbourne is looking for a Head of Digital with strong business acumen to make OMD the leader in the digital and technology space.

This role will be instrumental in driving digital to the core of our vision and the successful candidate will lead strategic solutions, recommend and oversee appropriate tools and technologies for digital strategy development and offer services to new and existing clients. Experience in pursuing digital strategies to drive client's business objectives is critical as is an ability to work in a data driven environment with a focus on measurement of outcomes.

This presents a rare and exciting opportunity to take a leadership position within Melbourne's leading media agency and to further your career within a collaborative, dynamic, performance-oriented culture.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead innovation for OMD. Work with the relevant digital and strategy leads to create and foster a culture of innovation across internal products and external resources
• Ensure that OMD is the best place to foster digital talent; maximising talent potential and ensuring retention strategies are in place to minimise churn
• Ensure OMD has a strong relationship with key media/tech and data partners to ensure OMD is at the forefront of beta testing, innovation and research
• Ensure that Digital is integrated within the wider agency. Work with digital and business leads to create and maintain a structure that evolves with the market and gives OMD and our clients the most future proofed and relevant structure
• New business support. Work with digital leads/Management on new business submissions as well as lead pitches in person when required
• Work with Annalect, Resolution, OMD Programmatic, Create & Digital office leads to help create and evolve best in breed product for clients.
• Work with key partners to drive cost savings, leverage tech and data opportunities, organise training for teams (and clients), first to market opportunities and help drive revenue

Key Attributes

• Advanced knowledge of current digital platforms and tools both in theory and practical application and rollout - including programmatic, data management, verification, marketing automation, advertising technology, cross media attribution and dynamic creative
• Commercial and business understanding: An understanding of financial fundamentals (P&L and Balance Sheet understanding), relevant industry trends and dynamics (applicable to OMD clients)
• Translate strategic vision and theory into practical and pragmatic business strategies and operating plans
• Ability to work respectfully alongside various skillsets and specialists to produce thinking, insight and tangible outcomes that improve client business
• Tertiary qualified, supplemented by 8-12 years of strategic planning, research led insights development or creative communications planning experience

About OMD

OMD is the largest integrated communications agency in Australia and part of a global OMD network of 9,000+ people in over 120 offices. We are a dynamic, creative and influential agency network that collectively combines to make OMD the most awarded agency network in the world.

Our brand proposition is simple and straight forward. We believe in insights, ideas and results. They consistently drive our vision for how we do our work and it's each team member's commitment to come together as a cohesive team, working with integrity to produce the best results for our clients, that makes it all possible.

With a people mission of ‘be the best you can be', we place great emphasis on the learning and development of our people, so much so that we have been listed in BRW's top 50 Best Places to Work in Australia for the last 7 consecutive years. Join us and experience it yourself!