About Publicis Media

Publicis Media is one of the four solutions hubs of Publicis Groupe, alongside Publicis Communications, Publicis.Sapient and Publicis Healthcare. Led by Steve King, CEO, Publicis Media is powered by its five global brands, Blue449, Digitas, Spark Foundry, Starcom and Zenith and supported by its digital-first, data-driven Global Practices which together deliver client value and business transformation. Publicis Media is committed to helping its clients navigate the modern media landscape and is present in more than 100 countries with over 13,500 employees worldwide.

The Senior Project Manager is initially responsible for the management of scoping and implementation of Publicis Media projects within the ‘Meteor’ programme; A UK transformation project designed to achieve automation of reporting across the Publicis Media client portfolio.  The Senior Project Manager will ensure that the programme is delivered to meet expectations, to the agreed timescales and within budget.  As such you must be a highly experienced project manager, able to produce detailed project plans with accurate timescales, budgets and resource requirements, working alongside the rest of the development team.  You will be able to keep track of projects against their baseline and produce weekly status reports to stakeholders.  You will also be required to provide input into pitches for new business.

You must be able to manage users at all levels, ensure expectations are realistic and help to identify, understand and implement steps to mitigate risks to projects and find the right balance between the ideal world and the real business needs.  Strong change control management will also be a key part of the role in terms of managing both the project and expectations.  This is a client facing role, so you will be a confident, articulate person with excellent presentation skills.

You will be working with the in-house and 3rd party development resources across different geographical locations.   You will be a key point of contact within the team for senior management, stakeholders and key users.  The ability to understand both the business language and the technical language is crucial.

Team Department/Profile

Technology is at the heart of our business.  Every business function within the Publicis Media agencies, depends on reliable systems to manage existing client relationships efficiently and effectively and to help win new business.  We are creating leading edge systems to manage and make sense of the ever increasing volumes of data, to optimise and improve ROI audience targeted media buying, as well as improve internal efficiencies.

• At least 5 years of experience as a Project Manager, with focus on data driven or development projects
• Knowledge of the full SDLC project lifecycle
• Working knowledge of Agile methodologies, including daily scrums, sprint planning and release control
• Drawing up cost and timeline proposals for solutions and producing corresponding project plans
• Risk management and mitigation
• Strong presentation skills to senior stakeholders and clients
• Identifying and defining project scope and objectives
• Liaising with developers, web designers, project managers and testers, to ensure everyone has a clear understanding of the requirements
• Competent in MS Project, Visio, Excel, Word, JIRA and TFS
• General understanding of databases and design
• General understanding of web application development
• Good understanding of ETL, data ingestion, cleansing, harmonisation and data governance
• PRINCE2 or PMI certified
• Must be an articulate, strong, confident communicator, able to work under pressure, juggle multiple projects and manage demanding challenges
• Knowledge of advertising technology vendors including DSPs, Ad-servers, Social Listening, etc
• Any experience of working in the media industry

This role is based in our brand new offices in Television Centre, White City. If you have any questions at all, please dont hesitate to get in touch!