Associate Director, Global Media

Responsibilities

• Maintain strong knowledge of the global media landscape, regional industry developments, and the brand's business across priority markets.
• Develop global media recommendations that connect brand objectives with regional priorities and local market considerations, with guidance from senior media leadership.
• Manage assigned global media workstreams from briefing through delivery, coordinating inputs, timelines, and follow-up across global, regional, and local teams.
• Contribute to the team's innovation and thought leadership agenda by identifying relevant marketplace developments, emerging capabilities, and ideas that can be shared across markets.
• Use reporting and insights from analytics teams to identify cross-market learnings and translate them into actionable recommendations for campaigns and partner discussions.
• Support the development and ongoing management of global joint business partnerships (JBPs), including preparation, coordination, documentation, and follow-through with internal and external stakeholders.
• Build productive relationships with key markets across Publicis' global media network, helping identify opportunities, resolve day-to-day challenges, and maintain alignment with global priorities.
• Partner with cross-capability leads, including CRM and owned media teams, to support connected media planning and activation.
• Develop trusted day-to-day client relationships, communicate recommendations clearly, and identify opportunities for stronger collaboration across teams.
• Apply a solid technical understanding of media platforms and market-specific capabilities to troubleshoot issues, evaluate options, and escalate complex matters when appropriate.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree preferred, ideally with a concentration in marketing, advertising, communications, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in media planning and/or strategy with progressive responsibility, including exposure to global or multi-market work across paid media strategy and investment.
• 2+ years of experience managing or formally mentoring team members, with the ability to coordinate work across global, regional, and local agency structures.
• Agency experience preferred, especially within a large, integrated, or multi-agency environment.
• Experience contributing to pitches or growth opportunities, including the development of strategic recommendations and presentation materials for global or multi-market clients.
• Experience across multiple media channels, such as national, local, digital, direct, programmatic, and social, with a strong understanding of major media partners and platform capabilities.
• Ability to assess changing client and market needs, adjust priorities, and coordinate resources while maintaining alignment with broader global direction.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, organizational, interpersonal, and analytical skills, including the ability to work effectively across cultures and stakeholder groups.
• Ability to translate data and insights into clear, actionable takeaways for clients and internal teams.
• Demonstrated leadership and collaboration skills, with the ability to guide teams, influence stakeholders, and drive high-quality execution without relying on direct authority.

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)