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, 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.

We’re looking to introduce an exceptional individual to play a critical role in enabling our teams to be effective in delivering market-leading solutions to our clients to cover a Maternity Contract. 

As Project Manager, you will have day-to-day responsibility for the smooth and effective running of specified projects with a focus on smooth coordination of client project milestones, project governance, and operational excellence. To do this, you should have great skills in effective project set up, budget control, project tracking and reporting, risk and issue analysis, and quality assurance.

With this in mind, an understanding of the principles of Project Management, appropriate methodologies, and processes is vital.  Ideally, you will also have experience applying Lean Six Sigma and Agile ways of working in operational and client delivery settings.

With respect to new solutions being launched to markets, you will also be responsible for enablement, which will entail coordinating relevant enablement-focused training all PMX Consulting employees across the digital consultancy landscape within EMEA, as well as linking enablement activities to other major regions, including North America (which often leads the development of new training content, if not region-specific).  Your key stakeholders will be the Managing Directors of Platform Impact, Biddable Power, Partnerships, and Futurescapes teams, as well as Regional Digital leadership teams to identify new training needs as they arise in connection with new areas of technology or capability relevant to our partners and to new products and services.

You will coordinate with various contacts across all Publicis Media agency brands to identify strategic imperatives for skills, capabilities, and expertise required to support the needs of each agency.   You will then source and collaborate with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to build appropriate content into eLearning and/or other appropriate training formats to ensure training is scalable – adding material to Marcel and/or PM Platform, where relevant. 

This exciting role calls for an individual who can focus on the detail, being thoroughly “buttoned-down” and on top of all aspects of their projects, while being aware of the bigger picture. The ideal candidate will be a Project Manager to the core who is looking to branch into Learning and Development, ideally with some experience of enablement of teams, as well as change management.

It is imperative that this individual be highly adaptable and process-oriented, able to manage various projects at once without sacrificing the attention to detail that is required to run a project or program effectively and to keep up with the training and enablement needs of the PMX Consulting team, market teams, and the agencies which are reliant on them.

Additionally, key attributes of the ideal candidate should include:

Project Management – 70% of Focus

• Manage and deliver multiple work streams for various types of projects (internal and external) to agreed scope, timings, budget, and quality
• Work with internal and external teams to help define project scope, resource requirements, and cost estimates for projects
• Be the hub of communication for your assigned projects - in regular contact with internal and external partners engaged in delivering our projects
• Encourage and facilitate collaboration. Set up projects in defined business tools to give full visibility but allow the team to collaborate independently
• Work with PMX internal and external partners to jointly scope, manage, and deliver projects when appropriate
• Create robust and realistic cost estimates and maintain cost documents in MS Excel and/or another tool(s) defined by the business
• Produce realistic timings in MS Project, or chosen business tool, with clearly flagged milestones
• Use defined business tools to assign and track issues when appropriate
• At the start of a project, analyse the areas that could potentially throw the delivery off track, log these risks and list what you plan to do to mitigate against them
• Confidently and proactively suggest the most appropriate Project Management approach based on the project’s requirements
• Be on top of your projects and know timings, key milestones, budgets, resourcing, risks, etc.
• Assess the time and financial impact of changes and communicate to stakeholders as appropriate
• Be firm but fair in judgement: push back when scope creep or suggested budgets are not realistic whilst understanding the constraints of the client. Be prepared and able to defend your position and profit margin internally and externally
• Understand the workings and needs of the projects you are partnered with; have a good understanding of the brands you work on - their definitions, their core characteristics, how they should and shouldn't behave
• Be commercially aware: At all times have an idea of the status of the budget of your projects; WIPS should be updated weekly and any variations from budget accounted for and where possible mitigated before they happen

Learning & Development – 30% of Focus

• Responsible for defining and implementing PMX Consulting learning & development culture and programs essential for maintaining and developing the skill sets and knowledge of our Subject Matter experts (SMEs)
• Responsible for developing and curating the enablement & training curriculum and partnering with SMEs within PMX to create new content or keep content accurate and up-to-date
• Work with PMX senior leadership to propose training plans and review past training performance
• Responsible for creating surveys & collecting feedback from participants across all training programs
• Must continually update existing curriculum to enhance the classroom experience based on participant feedback
• Manage communication around upcoming trainings and ensures communication goes out to the correct participants
• Secure necessary funding for programs and collaborate with outside vendors who support the training program
• Create collateral and facilitator guides for programs, as needed
• Work closely with the Publicis Media L&D team to set up program enrolments, manage rosters, upload materials, track attendance, etc.
• Handle administrative tasks associated with running a program, which includes scheduling rooms and presenters, requesting login credentials for participants, obtaining access to certain distribution lists, etc.

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 centre
• Demonstrate Publicis values consistently to the rest of the business

A Visionary, Intra-perineurial Leader

A future facing and driven leader, an excellent problem solver and 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 communication/media/digital agency or global brand with some knowledge of adtech and martech ecosystem
• Proven advanced stakeholder management experience
• Must be able to adapt to different working styles as this person will be continuously meeting and collaborating with new people
• Must be highly organized, a self-starter, detail oriented and solutions focused
• Must be able to prioritize and manage multiple projects at once
• Ability to work proactively and independently
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent time management and problem-solving skills
• Helped to drive transformation with success
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills - you must be able to articulate complex concepts to a diverse audience
• Degree or equivalent with 3+ years of experience in Project Management and/or Learning and Development, or similar training and enablement functions
• Experience in using project management tools such as MS Project, budget/time tracking tools and issue tracking software
• Working proficiency with Microsoft Office and Microsoft Project
• Experience in project management models including Agile, Waterfall, and Scrum
• Ideally, experience with Lean Six Sigma or other operational excellence methodologies

TRUST

Trust is the cornerstone upon which we build our relationships. We hold ourselves to the highest standards of how a partner should behave. We treat our people and our clients with respect, transparency and honesty.

TALENT

This is first and foremost a people business. We are committed to ensuring Publicis Groupe a destination 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.