Publicis Media is one of Canada’s fastest growing Media Agency networks. The secret sauce? A pool of talented individuals who learn from each other (while tapping into global centres of excellence) and transparency at the core of everything we do, from data reporting to billing all the way to agency leadership. The result is a blend of meaningful work for some of Canadas’ favorite brands and endless opportunities to grow for our team members. ​ 

​PMX (Publicis Media Exchange) is the commercial arm of Publicis Media, driving and delivering value for clients, while fostering and building marketplace leading partnerships with media owners.  PMX drives value for the brand agencies through intelligent investment and centres of excellence within buying and digital practices such as television, radio, ooh, search, social, programmatic and ecommerce.  APEX Exchange is focused on delivering unique opportunities to our clients via value-based services.

Publicis Media Canada is proud to be Great Places to Work™ certified and recognized with Best Workplaces™ for Today’s Youth. We provide continuing opportunities for career growth by fostering a diverse work environment that respects and supports individual contributions and opinions.

In addition to providing continuing opportunities for career growth we are proud to offer our employees market leading benefit and incentive programs.   

You’ll be provided with 3 weeks minimum vacation to start plus additional long weekend Publicis days, holidays closures, your birthday off, free headspace memberships, wellness and technology credits, and market leading savings and pension plans.   

We strive to provide what matters to you personally with the ability to choose and modify programs to suit your lifestyle. 

The Vice President, Digital Performance will be at the forefront of the digital and programmatic landscape to drive leading digital media strategies for Apex Canada. They will lead a growing digital and programmatic team and will play a key leadership role in overseeing the ongoing build-out and development of Apex digital and programmatic solutions and capabilities. Providing strategic digital planning support to the agency brands – Spark, Zenith and Starcom, the leader will absorb client business challenges, source actionable insights, consider opportunities across existing and emerging platforms to deliver effective strategies. They will ensure consistency across the digital and programmatic media buying process and identify first-to-market opportunities with innovative digital media products. This leadership role will manage both third party vendor partnerships and negotiations, and the brand specific internal media teams at Apex. The leader will provide thought leadership and collaboration, while fostering a team environment that delivers world-class campaigns and uphold delivery and execution of the Apex value proposition.

The successful candidate will be a self-starter with management skills to build, lead and coach a growing team domestically and virtually. This individual carries deep digital and programmatic media expertise and will be creative solutions advocate, willing and eager to try new tools and technology. The right leader for this role will have ambition and desire to create, grow and partner with brand planning team leads, and media vendors partnerships.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and effectively manage a growing team of digital and programmatic media specialists
• Facilitate each team member’s development providing ongoing coaching, feedback, career coaching and direction
• The Apex business lead in setting approach to performance strategy for our agency, clients, and teams
• Be key point of contact with Global programmatic teams within the network
• Partner with brand agency digital/strategy leads to help strategically guide client strategy to deliver outcomes, while infusing performance mindset into all major channels and facets
• Enable processes and workflows to drive our holistic approach and consistency to client campaigns
• Seek opportunities within brand agency network to improve and grow client business, influencing a broad reaching portfolio of clients at the agency
• Voice in the industry and for Apex and support brand agency in driving partnerships and thought leadership
• Manage external partners and negotiate publisher/partner rates
• Influence and drive the development of our overall performance product for the organization
• Responsible for identifying the new and emerging engagement points important for performance product and accountable to influence solutions, products that increase delivery and drive clients, agency and industry forward
• Leader within and across the agency
• Act as a consultant, trusted advisor in the programmatic activation and digital space

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of experience, 5+ years managing team members
• Experience with multiple DSPs and publishers a must
• Experience managing P&L an asset
• History of escalating agency roles in leadership capacity
• Comfort and adaptability working within matrix organizations
• Innovative and forward thinker
• Hands on and collaborative leader with experience successfully leading high performing
• Passion for facilitating the teaching/training, coaching and support of growing digital media team on activation planning and process.
• Anticipate and address client challenges with core and adjacent teams
• Empowers team and demonstrates empathy and integrity with a positive attitude
• Is aware of bandwidth of team, team members strengths and weaknesses and where and when to step in
• Problem-solving nature and deep curiosity to uncover the best solutions
• Focused on honing operational leadership and strategic skills for advancement
• Dynamic meeting facilitation and presentation skills

Publicis Media is an equal opportunity employer with a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion. We create and nurture a vibrant work environment that celebrates, values and leverages all aspects of diversity and inclusiveness, attracts world-class talent and serves as the industry benchmark for best practices. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals and will provide appropriate accommodation for candidates with disabilities or accessibility needs throughout the recruitment process, upon request. Please contact our recruiter for any questions, accommodations or specific requests. We thank all candidates for their interest in Publicis Media, however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.