Responsibilities

• Lead media strategy development and holistic planning efforts to achieve planning efforts to achieve deliver on campaign and business objectives; where necessary, work with counterparts to apply strategic thinking across the portfolio
• Build and maintain key client relationships across day-to-day levels and functions; serve as main point of contact across workstreams and processes
• Ensure team’s ability to contribute to media recommendations based on a clear understanding of brand objectives and client business, supported by data and insights
• Maintain working knowledge of media and category landscapes to inform client discussions, POVs, and strategic decision-making
• Work closely with cross-functional teams (Investment, Analytics, and Research) ensure translation of media strategies to tactical plans, identify and apply campaign insights, develop learning agendas, and uncover business opportunities
• Provide vision, direction, management and support across all levels of the team to ensure growth and delivery against client and company objectives
• Act as a leader within the organization: proactively steer process, POVs, and collaboration across functions

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in media planning/strategy with progressive levels of responsibility
• 7+ years of progressive leadership experience, demonstrating a strong capacity to understand/employ a balance effective management, hands-on teaching, and mentorship
• Working experience across all media types (omnichannel, brand/performance, national/local, shopper, etc.)
• Adequately balancing participation in the day-to-day with providing leadership to the team
• In line with changing client priorities, ability to adapt resources, approach, and work outputs quickly while ensuring executional excellence
• Exceptional communication skills: you can make the complex simple when sharing information; you can tell a story through a presentation; you can speak clearly and with authority to galvanize those around you
• Ability to understand and translate 1st and 3rd party data/results into viable strategic outputs
• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills; when presented with a challenge, develops an effective solution and implements it promptly

Benefits

• 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