Supervisor, Out of Home

 

As a Supervisor on the Out of Home (OOH) team your core responsibility will be to manage and oversee the day-to-day across the assigned clients with the support of direct reports. You will also simultaneously support senior members and managers of the team on department or agencywide initiatives, as needed. The Supervisor is also responsible for hands on training with direct reports, ensuring a high-quality level of work and motivating the team to hit deadlines.  

Key Duties/Responsibilities & Desired Knowledge Base:

•   Function independently while maintaining a high quality of work 
•    Oversee and manage team including training direct reports to be self-sufficient  
•    Autonomously manage planning efforts, with support of the team, on strategic direction, RFPs, negotiations, evaluations, and presentations
•    Develop and present strategically focused OOH plans/recommendations with sound rationale 
•    Expert understanding of media terms, concepts, and strategy (KPI, ROI, CPM, R/F)
•    Familiarity with OOH industry partners: Geopath & OAAA  
•    In depth knowledge of OOH formats, vendors and markets (local, regional, national) 
•    Proficient in planning across a variety of OOH verticals: 
•    Required: traditional, tra-digital/digital, digital placed based 
•    Preferred: experiential, event partnerships/event targeted, traditional embellishments (ex. extensions, props/builds, illumination, etc.)
•    Participate in strategy development and brainstorming meetings with the ability to take a proactive approach to planning and problem solving/trouble shooting, anticipating potential challenges and seeking amicable solutions 
•    Compile and present POV’s as needed; rooted in sound research and presented with strong supportive context/rationale that is client specific
•    Stay current on new/ evolving trends with the media landscape (OOH and media overall)
•    Attend Industry and client-related functions and networking events, when necessary, while simultaneously balancing workload/deadlines
•    Remain solution oriented, seeking creative resolutions, through to fruition 
•    Working harmoniously with internal & external teams on projects from start to finish 
•    Ability to simultaneously multitask between multiple accounts and projects and prioritize accordingly based on deliverables under tight deadlines
•    Ability to recognize appropriate new opportunities, need for 101’s or other documents and motivate self/team to compile and present as needed
•    Participate in/attend meetings/trainings and/or market rides as needed 

 

Qualifications/Skills: 
Characteristics:  
•    Innate curiosity with a desire to learn and grow as an OOH/Media professional 
•    Aptitude for critical thinking and problem solving 
•    Self-starter who approaches workload with a positive attitude 
•    Proactive (vs reactive) approach to projects/workload as well as overall management of the business and direct reports 
•    Strong communication and presentation skills (written & verbal) 
•    Acute attention to detail 
•    Highly organized, including time management (of self and team) 
•    If errors/mistakes do occur, ability to take responsibility, adjust accordingly and apply learnings moving forward (of self and team) 

Competencies: 
•    Drive projects from start to finish in a timely manner
•    Motivate team, primarily direct reports, to do the same
•    Meet tight deadlines under pressure 
•    Multitask across numerous projects/accounts
•    Prioritize and reprioritize "to-do list” accordingly to meet tight and/or changing deadlines while remaining positive
•    Effectively and fairly delegate workload
•    Synthesize large volumes of information quickly 
•    With the ability t