Digital Activation Director

Agency:

Hearts & Science

Job Function:

Media

Job Subfunction:

Media Planning and Buying

Job Description:

Role Digital Activation Director, EMEA Hearts & Science | Omnicom Media

This role provides leadership across the full digital activation remit, giving you oversight of digital channel performance, platform excellence and market alignment across EMEA for ON Running. You will lead the day‑to‑day delivery, optimisation and governance of Hearts & Science’s Digital Activation activation across EMEA via our Hub in London to ensure consistency, quality and delivery of a unified digital activation strategy.

As an Agent of Change, you will bring technical depth, curiosity and collaborative leadership to the client, network and agency team. You will turn complex Digital Activation signals into clear strategic direction, platform data into actionable optimisation plans and brand ambition into Digital Activation‑driven growth. You operate at the centre of our activation across our international hub, using shared workflows, governance frameworks and platform tools in sync with our teams in the US.

Responsibilities:

Driving Digital Activation Excellence Lead Digital Activation across EMEA, ensuring campaigns are set up, executed and optimised to best‑in‑class standards across paid search, social & programmatic overseeing a team of specialists. Ownership of end-to-end process translating briefs into live campaigns in-platform. Ownership of budget planning and pacing, PO management and all related finance tasks to ensure a successful campaign. Establish and enforce a unified Digital Activation approach, ensuring consistent structures, optimisation frameworks and quality controls. Drive end to end process from planning to setup working closely with performance, data & ad operations team to ensure flawless execution Maintain a strong performance rhythm — overseeing daily Digital Activation analysis, insight generation and optimisation plans with market and specialist teams. Govern shared Digital Activation dashboards and ensure data accuracy, insight quality and accountability across all contributing markets. Own and rollout the best-in-class QA approach across setup, budget management and pacing.

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