Manager, Global Business Development

  • Full-time

Company Description

Publicis Groupe, known for its award-winning creativity, best-in-class technology, digital and consulting expertise, is the world's third largest communications group. With 80,000+ colleagues in over 100 countries, the Groupe has four Solution hubs: Creative with Publicis Communications, Media with Publicis Media, Digital business transformation with Publicis.Sapient, and Health & Wellbeing with Publicis Health.

Since 2014 with the acquisition of Sapient, Publicis Groupe has undergone a profound transformation by scaling a new model connecting data, creativity, and technology. The Groupe has continued this journey with the 2019 acquisition of Epsilon to further scale the data-led offering and provide true momentum to our client's own transformation.

Job Description

The Operations team supports all large Global, regional and local market pitches in the areas of pitch logistics and operations, as well as maintaining (a recently built) self-serve function for markets to run smaller regional and local pitches independently. The team spans three regions, UK, US and APAC. Core responsibilities will include opportunity due diligence, managing RFI responses, project management and assisting in maintenance/content refresh of our self-serve function.

  • Assist in the qualification of pitch opportunities
  • Report to the Director, Global Business Development
  • Set-up and organize pitch folders, timing plans and intel documentation
  • Coordinate Request For Information (RFI) responses for important pitches, working with partners and local markets
  • Conduct market and competitor research using industry sources i.e. COMvergence, Recma, and other third-party sources
  • Manage and log requests from our agency brands across our network
  • Logging and reporting on new business opportunities on Salesforce Manage our Business Development folders, keeping track of users and permission settings so confidential data is kept secure
  • Manage global logistic plans for pitches
  • Support with Transition work streams
  • Identify and build proposals for new collaboration tools for the Global Business Development Team.
  • Work with Growth Intelligence team to manage Salesforce records, provide Salesforce training and support on network requests
  • Support the governance and maintenance of our Content Vault. Taking ownership of folders and work streams to keep content up to date.
  • Help with the post-pitch process, ensuring our Business Development leads complete the required documentation to share important insights and resources
  • Build relationships with our Business Development Community and Local Market contacts
  • Work with design team and pitch leads to develop pitch collateral and distribute across markets

Qualifications

  • 4+ years' experience in the Advertising Industry (Media or Creative) or in an operational role in a different industry sector
  • Possess well-honed project management skills, to ensure accurate delivery of projects.
  • Process-driven and always looking to identify new ways to do things better.
  • Easily builds relationships.
  • Strong analytical skills
  • Confidence to recommend improvements to processes and ways of working.
  • Proficient in Microsoft (TEAMS, PPT, and Excel).
  • Experience using Salesforce

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the qualifications of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and we reserve the right to modify this pay range at any time. We anticipate the application deadline for this job posting will be 9/4/2024.

Our Publicis Groupe motto "Viva La Différence "means we're better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on encouraging belonging and creating equitable &inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and allow every person to grow. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact [email protected].

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