Publicis Worldwide Australia is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Publicis Worldwide network, which has over 200 offices in 104 countries and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Led by Executive Creative Director, Ryan Petie, and Managing Director, Simone Waugh, the agency has undergone a huge transformation to become the true communications leader in the Queensland market, with a stunning new business record and delivering world-class work.

Recent campaigns include the award-winning scUber campaign for Tourism and Events Queensland – a global partnership with Uber – that recently picked up Gold at AWARD Awards and featured at New York Festivals, Spikes Asia and Best of Show at the Brisbane Advertising and Design Club Awards; and Last Seen for the Queensland Eye Institute, a world-first art exhibition pairing artists with blind Australians to paint their last visual memories.

Based in Queensland, Publicis Worldwide Australia is a national agency with national / global clients including: Subway (Australia and New Zealand), Cenovis, Nature’s Own, Betadine, Ostelin, Isuzu, Queensland Government, Bulla Family Dairy, Tourism and Events Queensland, Brisbane City Council and Griffith University.

We're looking for a talented Strategy Planner with an entrepreneurial spirit who's hungry (and very able) to take on the responsibility of driving the communications strategy for some of our biggest, boldest clients.

Working directly with the Executive Strategy Director, this role will be the day to day 'creative strategist' able to plan and implement multi-layered, integrated strategies across two key brands.

Day to day you will:

• Create world-class creative strategy recommendations for our clients
• Develop clear, compelling insights based on robust 'discovery phase’ planning
• Work with data to write and deliver clear recommendations and briefs 
• Work with data to report and drive performance 
• Collaborate with clients & internal teams in presentations, pitches and workshops

Desired Skills and Experience

• Ideally 5+ years’ experience in an agency or creative business environment.  
• Experience thinking/planning from an integrated perspective 
• A creatively-driven problem solver able to get to the heart of issues and lead the way forward across different types of brand problems
• Able to synthesis quantities of research and data 
• Experience working on behavioral change strategies and campaigns, 
• Culturally aware of communications/marketing trends and culture as a whole, taking inspiration from it.
• Confident and articulate, able to collaborate with different departments to develop and deliver ideas and can articulate those
• Proactive, self-starter who can work well both independently and as part of a team
• Hyrbid skills across brand, comms, data and social media planning
• Ability to multi-task in a fast paced environment, remain graceful under pressure, and enjoys working in a multi-discipline collaborative environment      

What we will offer you

Be a part of the Publicis Groupe family one of the world’s most progressive and dynamic modern communications businesses enjoying all the perks that come with our network offering:  

• Work with a diverse team where we value all the benefits of harnessing differences for our people, our clients and our business.   
• A committed Diversity and Inclusion and Belonging strategy driven through our Viva! Women, Égalité and First Peoples RAP (reconciliation action plan) programs   
• Work Your World program enabling employees the flexibility to work from anywhere in the world for up to 6 weeks per year  
• A creative, fun and rewarding office environment backed up by our Publicis Liberté flexibility approach “working your way, with us!”  
• Access to employee benefits including –wellness programmes, learning and development opportunities, network events  
• Confidential 24-hour support via our employee assistance programme  

Publicis Groupe believes that to deliver the best solutions to our clients, our people need to reflect the diverse communities in which our clients operate. We value diversity and the skills, knowledge and experience that difference brings to our culture and solutions. We encourage applications from Indigenous Australians, people with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, mature age workers, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people.