About the Role:
PHD EMEA is seeking an experienced Digital Director to work within the central client team for a major global automotive brand.
This role is ideal for someone who has excelled within Paid Search and Social in an agency environment and is ready to transition into a more consultative, strategy-led role with global impact. The Digital Director is part of the central team who will work across 10+ markets with a focus primarily on search and social strategy leadership, media partnerships, market advancement and local market governance. This is a unique opportunity to be seen as a trusted advisor for our markets and influence international approaches.
This role is the primary lead across these two channels, delivering global strategic guidance and governance to drive consistent local market performance. Continuing to advance Paid Search while also providing strong leadership in Social, steering the channel roadmap and giving global clients clear direction on strategy, innovation, and thought leadership.
The Digital Director will also be responsible for sharing channel/platform insights and opportunities with our global client team and their creative agency to shape global campaign strategies, including detailed asset and activation recommendations.
Responsibilities and opportunities for this role would include:
- Creating an innovative and data-driven roadmap for both Paid Search & Social for this leading auto client’s central Digital team.
- Client Leadership, including leading senior client discussions and providing strategic direction in both face-to-face and remote settings.
- Managing relationships with key partners like Google, Meta and Pinterest with the scale of the client allowing a direct impact on product development and creating customised solutions for your client.
- You will have a global impact on the client’s business and ability to generate revenue, especially as the industry begins to explore eCommerce.
- Maintaining a strong understanding of media tech stacks and various 3rd party tools and platforms.
- Keeping up to date with the latest product innovations from key media partners which will impact the after sales segment of the automotive category.
- You will be part of a Digital team based in London working on this client, packed full of other smart, nice people, working across other areas of this leading automotive company.
This role is heavy on client contact, so it is ideal for strong communicators with a genuine interest in how businesses work, as your opinion will be taken very seriously.
About You:
- Strong experience in both Paid Search & Social in a digital agency setting.
- Strong foundation in PPC and Paid Social platform management, with the ability to translate technical capability into strategic direction.
- Priority will be given to those with global business experience, understanding the nuances in terms of cultural differences, varying digital landscapes and scalability within global teams.
- Be a proactive self-starter, clear communicator and strong presenter.
- Have an adaptive style in being able to communicate often technical ideas in simple terms to people less familiar with the topic.
- Have strong organisational skills, being able to manage multiple projects at once autonomously.
- Ability to manage challenges of various clients and market interests in a culturally sensitive manner.
- Previous automotive experience is desirable but not required.
- Previous programmatic advertising experience is desirable but not required.
- Language skills:
- Required: English
- Highly desirable: German
- Desirable: Other western European languages
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.
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Skills Required
- Strong experience in both Paid Search & Social in a digital agency setting
- Strong foundation in PPC and Paid Social platform management
- Global business experience with cultural awareness
- Ability to communicate technical ideas in simple terms
- Organizational skills to manage multiple projects
- Proactive self-starter, clear communicator, strong presenter
- Languages: English required, German preferred, other western European languages desirable
Omnicom Media Group UK Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Omnicom Media Group UK and has not been reviewed or approved by Omnicom Media Group UK.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave allowances include 27 days’ annual leave plus a birthday day and options to trade holiday. Additional “summer Fridays/recharge days” help widen time‑off options.
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Flexible Benefits — Hybrid working with a typical three‑days‑in/two‑days‑remote pattern and defined core hours supports flexibility. Work‑from‑anywhere allowances and 2–3 WFH days are also referenced in the UK context.
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Healthcare Strength — Private medical insurance, life assurance, and an Employee Assistance Programme are part of the core package. Mental wellbeing support, trained Mental Health First Aiders, and a subsidised gym further reinforce health coverage.
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What We Do
OMG UK delivers transformational experiences for consumers, clients and talent. Powered by the Omni marketing orchestration system, OMG connects best-in-class capabilities that enable our full-service media agencies OMD, MG OMD, PHD and Hearts & Science to deliver more relevant and actionable consumer experiences, more productive and proactive client experiences, and more collaborative and rewarding talent experiences. We are enormously proud of our Agency and Network of the Year accolades, including most recently, PHD named Adweek’s Global Media Agency of the Year, MG OMD named Thinkbox TV Planning Agency of the Year, and OMG Unite named Media Agency of the Year at the Leadership and Diversity Awards. We are committed to providing a truly inclusive environment where everyone is able to bring their true selves to work, diverse voices and minority communities are valued, heard and well represented, and where everyone is able to thrive in a culture of equality, inclusion and fairness.
