Business Director Marketing Science - PHD UK
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Omnicom Media Group UK
Job Description
About the Role:
The role is for a senior leader within the team who reports directly to the Head of Marketing Science. It involves significant responsibilities across project and line management, commercial oversight of some financial targets, and new product development.
The Business Director provides direction to the team and the clients, ensuring we are focused on the questions that matter and that the team have the right tools and techniques to be able to deliver projects that are both valued by clients and profitable as a business.
The role will be a mix of strategic, client-facing interaction role and hands-on delivery of advanced analytical projects. Liaising with clients and directing projects end to end, ensuring statistical rigor and real-world media relevance. The role requires a good understanding of how media works and prior experience of measurement, ideally in a media agency environment. Working alongside Strategy, Planning and Investment teams, this role will bridge the gap to clients, ensuring that client requests are turned into designs for Analytics and that outputs are high quality and presented in a client friendly way.
The opportunity
This is a senior role for someone who can combine a creative approach to problem solving with smart technical know-how and polished project management/people skill.
About the Agency:
PHD UK is a growth-focused media agency driven by innovation and creativity. It is the reigning Campaign AND Media Week Awards Media Agency of the Year and in March 2026 was named as the most awarded media agency in the World in the annual Warc Media 100 rankings.
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 subsequent 3 decades, we have continued to build on this defining ethic — with our evolution shaped by a continual investment in thought leadership and a culture of Ingenuity.
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
