Responsibilities

• Strong leadership presence and client management skills
• Thought leadership and strategy development with a digital, performance-first mindset
• Leads thinking to inspire innovative solutions, creativity, and a proactive approach
• Digital mindset/fluency and an insatiable curiosity
• Flexibility and agility to manage complex processes
• Ensure the team delivers sound strategic plan recommendations based on a clear understanding of client objectives
• Maintain an in-depth knowledge of client businesses with a focus on upstream initiatives
• Expert command of Media Research resources, capabilities and limitations
• Exemplify collaboration by building and maintaining productive relationships across all communications areas (internal teams and agency partners).
• Ability to think beyond “media” as an active collaborator in the Integrated Marketing Communications process

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree preferred, preferably with a concentration in marketing, advertising, communications, business, sociology, or consumer insights
• 10+ years of media planning, buying, and management experience in progressive levels of responsibility
• 7+ years of management experience with progressing responsibilities
• Strong experience with performance media
• Demonstrated business acumen and a track record of success in the media services profession
• Strategic thinker, seeing the bigger picture, with the ability to analyze everything and think critically when solving problems to come up with unconventional solutions
• Ability to establish and manage the P&L statement
• Previous leadership and team management
• Ability to build great relationships with clients, vendors, and reps
• History of negotiating to get the job done right and track record of success in media

Preferred

• Previous experience within the CPG vertical is preferred.

Benefits

• The Power of One starts with our people! To do powerful things, we offer powerful resources.
• Our best-in-class wellness and benefits offerings include:
• Paid Family Care for parents and caregivers for 12 weeks or more
• Monetary assistance and support for Adoption, Surrogacy and Fertility
• Monetary assistance and support for pet adoption
• Employee Assistance Programs and Health/Wellness/Comfort reimbursements to help you invest in your future and work/life balance
• Tuition Assistance
• Paid time off that includes Flexible Time off Vacation, Annual Sick Days, Volunteer Days, Holiday and Identity days, and more
• Matching Gifts programs
• Flexible working arrangements
• 'Work Your World’ Program encouraging employees to work from anywhere Publicis Groupe has an office for up to 6 weeks a year (based upon eligibility)
• Business Resource Groups that support multiple affinities and alliances