Publicis Media is one of the four solutions hubs of Publicis Groupe, alongside Publicis Communications, Publicis Sapient and Publicis Healthcare. Led by Steve King, CEO, Publicis Media is powered by its four global brands, Starcom, Zenith, Spark Foundry and Blue 449, and supported by its digital-first, data-driven Global Practices which together deliver client value and business transformation. Publicis Media is committed to helping its clients navigate the modern media landscape and is present in more than 100 countries with over 13,500 employees worldwide.

The Associate Director, MarTech Solutions Consulting EMEA will be responsible for consulting Publicis Media Agencies and Advertisers on their data-driven marketing approach, programmatic advertising and marketing technology with a focus on Data Management Platforms (DMP’s), Customer Data Platforms (CDPs), clean room solutions, as well as 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party audience data strategy. The Associate Director solves strategic marketing challenges through the application of advanced data sets to ensure clients audience data as well as digital and programmatic investments are as efficient and as effective as possible.

This role works within the central Precision EMEA Consulting team, a practice within Publicis Media. The role supports the Publicis Media agencies and other Publicis Media Practices, Strategic Partners, and clients to create integrated solutions to solve each client’s most pressing marketing challenges, working in concert with Agency, Product Management, Analytics, Operations, and other teams.

The Associate Director is an energetic individual who possesses a combination of strong analytic, problem solving and client facing skills, working as an integral part of the Publicis Media Precision practice. The role requires the ability to seamlessly support the Solutions Consulting team by contributing to the development of Publicis offered data-enabled solutions and services, to help advertisers solve marketing challenges with MarTech technology and data.

PM Precision

PM Precision is Publicis Media’s data-informed, tech-enabled trading practice.  Precision helps brands reach audiences on highly viewable, fraud free media. By applying best in class data and tech capabilities, Precision delivers a more efficient ad-tech supply chain with curated inventory and data.  Precision encompasses agency-embedded teams that provide greater strategic alignment with clients and buying teams.  Agency teams are supported by a centralized team for shared resources, best practices, tech audits and partnership management. Precision spans product strategists, marketers, solutions consultants, activation specialists, ad-ops and data scientists.

Key Responsibilities

Support the end-to-end audience management consultancy practice across pre-sales engagements, client consulting projects and longer-term incubation into agencies. Specifically providing the expertise on how MarTech systems interface with AdTech to provide data to build audiences.

Pre-sales Engagements:

• Support the rollout of our data-driven maturity framework across key clients and agencies in EMEA, with the purpose of auditing, tracking and developing strategic roadmaps to help advance our client’s data-driven marketing maturity.
• Actively contribute towards the development of integrated new products, tools and services provided to clients as it relates to DMP and CDP strategy, implementation and operations.
• Actively participate and facilitate strategic workshops for clients and agency teams.
• Collaborate with agencies and external partners in EMEA on client’s AdTech and MarTech strategy to uncover needs and priorities.
• Help develop partnerships with agency teams, internal specialist practices (CRM, Sapient, etc.) and enterprise partners through developing and sharing relevant collateral, as well as supporting joint pipeline management.
• Support client project design and scoping where required.
• Identify and liaise with leading vendors to ideate and innovate for Precision to ensure Publicis Groupe has access to market leading solutions.

Client Consulting Projects (Post-Sales Implementation):

• Provide day-to-day strategic and operational support for the management of DMP, CDP and clean room solutions (e.g. use case design, audience framework, platform integration, data analysis, etc.).
• Support technical consultants throughout the technical onboarding and implementation phase where AdTech and MarTech systems are being integrated to share data.
• After delivering proof of concept for long-term projects, e.g. DMP or CDP implementation, help incubate on-going management into local agency team through providing operational and tactical training and support.  
• Work with specialist teams (e.g. Analytics, CRM, etc.) to providing key learnings and considerations for ongoing strategic improvements, producing regular case studies on data-driven marketing and insights to help upsell additional services.

Solutions Consulting:

• Support Director level-led projects, as a key contributor during client facing consulting projects covering advanced MarTech innovation and solutions delivery.
• Produce thought leadership and inspiring POVs covering market advancements and trends covering AdTech and MarTech, such as the deprecation of third party cookies and the impact on marketers.
• Provide in person education to agency and client teams to help increase knowledge of data enabled opportunities related to the use of MarTech systems, and be able to communicate the value of them succinctly, in a way that marketing professionals can relate to and get behind.
• To work with our Agency Digital Leads and Clients as appropriate to build functional architecture models to show data flows and interfaces that support building audiences.

Knowledge

• Be practically knowledgeable in advertising technologies such as DMPs, CDPs, CRMs, journey orchestration platforms, clean room solutions, ad servers, DSPs, ad exchanges, cross-device tracking technologies, site optimization platforms, website analytics systems, dynamic creative optimizers, data modelers, browsers, etc.
• Have a good understanding of marketing technologies such as marketing clouds, CDPs, email service platforms, etc.
• Be capable of inventing and architecting complex technological solutions to solve specific marketing challenges.

Qualifications

• Experience in a combination of client services, consulting, programmatic media & MarTech platforms management
• Working knowledge of Oracle, Salesforce Adobe and Google Marketing Cloud platforms is preferred with a more detailed knowledge of one of these vendors’ technical solutions.
• Comfortable supporting complex multi-dimensional engagements that combine agency services (digital and direct), data management, consulting, and large technology deployments
• Possess a charismatic, engaging personality and can successfully interact with senior/executive level client contacts
• Have the ability to grow client relationships through new strategies and innovative ideas.
• Be a self-motivated operator
• Be comfortable with speaking to clients on a daily basis and navigating a matrixed global organization.
• Advanced degree preferred

TRUST
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TALENT
This is first and foremost a people business. We are committed to ensuring Publicis Media a destimation for the best talent in our industry. We value people as individuals, growing ourselves as we grow our client’s business. 

TRANSFORMATION
True transformation comes when we stop managing change, and instead initiate change. We believe in our purpose to be the admired force for business transformation. We believe that focusing on performance and results has the power to transform client business.