Founded in 1926, Publicis is a global leader in marketing, communication, and digital transformation. Through our world-class brands and our ability to deliver end-to-end services, we are uniquely positioned to help our clients to unlock growth through digital transformation.

About Publicis Media Exchange (PMX):

Harnessing the power of the modern media landscape to drive one-to-one consumer engagement at scale, Publicis Media creates value for clients through global media agency brands and scaled capabilities across investment, strategy, insights and analytics, data and technology, commerce, performance marketing and content.

Publicis Media Exchange (PMX) is the central investment practice for Publicis Media, responsible for the smart application of investment by leveraging scale, marketplace innovation, deeper partnerships and intelligence. We are client-centric and operate on the principles of trust, transformation, and talent.

About PMX Consulting:

PMX Consulting is a 3rd-millennium consultancy that sits within PMX and is dedicated to keeping ambitious brands at the forefront of a constantly evolving marketing landscape. We catapult businesses into the age of acceleration with the right tools, processes and world-class experts to win and thrive at pace. Through our global network of consultants we rapidly mobilise pioneering strategic solutions into robust implementation.  

Our applied consultancy model blends deep technical expertise with decades of solid experience and future-facing focus, positively impacting growth areas from in-housing best practice, to agile platform optimisation, to ground-breaking innovation trials, and maximised cross-channel media effectiveness practices and more. We simplify, implement and scale in an unrivalled way addressing the strategic, operational and cultural challenges of the real-time era. Our unique power lies in our ability to embrace today’s sea of technological complexity by shifting beyond theory into pragmatic application thus fuelling rapid business acceleration.

What is Futurescapes?

This role exists within Futurescapes - a relatively new area established within PMX – its key areas of focus are:

• Growth through emerging technology
• Trends and innovations across the adtech & martech ecosystem impacting consumers and categories
• Pioneering thought leadership, advisory, and facilitation
• Strategic partnerships and go-to-market firsts
• Systemic experimentation and rapid pilots
• In order to deliver value within these areas of focus, we act as:
• Sources of unique value-driven data, insight, and thought leadership
• Investors, sponsors, incubators, and cultivators
• Enablers and communicators
• Change agents
• Connectors of a global pool of resources to deliver end-to-end technology-driven propositions
• A global centre of expertise on commercialisaton and productisation of martech and adtech
• Customer-oriented product and service designers
• Strategic partners and consultants

Key Responsibilities:

The leader of this discipline will work across the holding company agencies and across our regional stakeholders, as well as directly with clients to lead all future opportunity development to identify areas where we can scale and deliver PowerofOne solutions across the Groupe.  They will actively work with the Platform Impact team on developing opportunities that arise as a result of conducting the Digital Maturity Index (DMI) and Channel Activation Media Index (CAMI) consultancy that we do and building those into cross-Publicis opportunities for digital optimisation and activation. 

They will equally work on building relationships across the Partnerships, Content, Production, Commerce, and Data and Technology areas of our business to ensure that through our PowerofOne network, we are able to respond to pitches with a compelling, unified view of our capabilities in Digital across all existing and new channels.  They will ensure that the foundations are established to support clients in building end-to-end, multi-faceted data and technology-driven solutions to meet their needs, including working across both internal and external partners to design and deliver relevant and market-leading propositions.

This role will identify the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) across the business required to provide input into a pitch in a new area of data and technology, and then will support the development of planning and enablement around the delivery of that solution, bringing together the teams that will be required to orchestrate a multi-faceted, cross-agency, cross-team solution to a client brief.  They will then hand off the agreed plan to the relevant parties internally to execute, with the agency leads driving the plan.  This role will, however, support agency leads in ensuring that the plan stays on track, as well as checking in with the client when updates or changes to the plan are required.

At any given time, this might include expert leadership and enablement of activities such as:

• Understanding and building connections with the internal and external martech and adtech ecosystem and capabilities across Publicis
• Sourcing and evaluating feasibility input (technical and commercial) and reviewing with the client, internal teams, and partners of the proposed solutions
• Operational measurement – establishing core metrics to track success, impact, and value of this work on client pitch success, account development, and optimization of client activation
• Capability development – this role is responsible for identifying gaps and opportunities to further develop our capability to deliver fully on client requirements and/or to identify partners to support that delivery
• Customer success – this role should identify the practices and ways of working across all teams to ensure consistent activities, standards, and measurement is put in place to ensure client satisfaction, feedback, and input
• Process, structure, standards, ways of working, rules of engagement, and governance for how we execute data and technology-driven PowerofOne propositions across multiple areas of the business
• Enablement and expertise around the above process, structure, and governance, as well as thought leadership around “art of the possible” for these cross-Publicis solutions
• Agile test & learn – in this case, working across teams to quickly share, test, and focus the approach to solving customer challenges
• Together with the Head of Incubation and Productisation, new proposition organisational and commercial structure development and planning, where relevant to the PowerofOne approach

In order to achieve this, this role will regularly lead activity and thought leadership in:

• Ecosystem mapping – internal and external
• Network building across all relevant areas of the business
• Account plan development with Global Client Leads
• Standards and ways of working
• Value analysis, feasibility analysis
• Streamlining processes, automation
• Agile ways of working
• Enablement and expertise around digital transformation and the wider martech and adtech ecosystem

• Senior-level technology solution selling and/or product management of global, multi-market, multi-sector propositions
• Strong understanding of the martech and adtech platforms (web, mobile, tablets, PC; DSP, SSP, Ad Server, Verification, Analytics; Search, Social, Programmatic; Data Partners; and so on) for holistic user experiences and data handling
• Experience leading and developing high-performance teams
• Experience managing in a matrix structure, including negotiating with, enabling, and managing a range of different stakeholders
• Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously through all phases of the development and delivery lifecycle
• Experience turning extremely broad client briefs into a cohesive and coherent strategy that brings to bear leading internal and external capability
• Experience identifying trusted partners and working with them to deliver a client solution
• Experience supporting the organisation to develop the technical, commercial, and organisational infrastructure requires to bring complex solutions to a client effectively
• A solutions-oriented mindset and an ability to connect the dots, source the right technical expertise, and build the right “answers” to complex problems
• Experience planning and enabling teams across regions and business units to deliver complex solutions
• Experience of communicating effectively at CxO level
• The ability to influence without authority
• Professional experience that is a balance of commercial and technical is ideal

 People Focus

• Provide clear direction for cross-disciplinary teams and communities, agreeing and achieving expectations with them, showing interest in what motivates each individual, as well as how to achieve team-driven outcomes. Supporting indirect and direct reports, as well as those who you must influence across a broad internal and external network, to identify development areas and help them find development opportunities. Inspire and motivate a community of practitioners to drive global excellence and industry credibility.
• Drive an engaging, innovative, high-performing culture
• Lead, inspire and give clear direction. Be a mentor and a people builder
• Retain people and attract fresh talent to achieve our vision and ambition across the region
• Work closely with the Talent Team to deliver “best-in-class” talent initiatives as we build out the consultancy model from the center
• Demonstrate Publicis values consistently to the rest of the business

 A Visionary, Intrapreneurial Leader

A future-facing and driven leader, an excellent problem solver and a decision-maker. Pro-active, action-oriented eager to get hands dirty to solve problems entrepreneurially, impactfully and swiftly.

International Mindset

A proven collaborator within a global business, who can coordinate and influence a collective team-based client relationship across complex matrix structures, organisations and different cultures, both internally and externally, and manage significant stakeholders and key industry relationships.

Critical Skills:

• Already worked in a leadership position in a communication/media/digital agency or global brand
• Proven leadership ability and previous client relationship experience
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent time management and problem-solving skills
• Helped to drive transformation with success
• Track record of winning pitches and significant experience of organic growth
• Acknowledged as a thought-leader and an innovator
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills - you must be able to articulate complex concepts to a diverse audience
• Bachelor’s degree at minimum, Masters degree preferred
• Ideally, Lean Six Sigma and Agile experience

As part of our dedication to create an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Groupe UK is committed to equal access to opportunity for people without regard to race, age, sex, disability, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, gender identity or religion. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments for candidates with disabilities in our application process.

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