Overview The Associate Director, Project Management position is responsible for steering increasingly larger and more complex programs for a client or portfolio of projects across multiple clients. They help work with stakeholders internally and externally to ensure that assignments are completed according to schedule and budget. They actively identify opportunities, heavily involved in estimation and contract reviews to ensure accuracy of effort and commitment. The Associate Director also consults with the leadership team on decisions and works together to persuasively align the project team to a greater goal. Responsibilities

Leads program orchestration for a large global media account including internal and external touchpoints to track progress to delivery for key media projects. Lead day-to-day communications through meeting scheduling, feedback trackers, meeting notes, status documents, QA. Review all deliverables and ensure exceptional delivery of tactics to form and reinforce client rapport. Shape approaches and create meaningful views of scope across different services and capabilities. Ability to articulate delivery process/methodology and effectively discuss and internally communicate client constraints related to scope, timeline, or cost. Collaborate with internal stakeholders and external clients to creatively resolve challenges with the contract and maintain media timelines and SLAs. Assess the effectiveness of team dynamics/communications and diagnose and implement corrective actions where challenges may occur. Responsible for delivering a work stream or collection of projects within sold margins with the ability to identify and propose solutions for changes in margin. Deal with challenging situations/interactions and drive the collaboration process in large group sessions to get key clients to make difficult decisions. Partner directly with client PMO for joint roadmap and coordination of meetings. Responsible for program management tool selection and administration and reinforcing use across global media leads and stakeholders; Smartsheet, Monday.com, JIRA. Partner with Agency Orchestration Team to ensure media specific team operations are managed accordingly.

Qualifications

Minimum 7+ years of experience managing medium‑large size programs, preference in experience with digital media. Experience with strategy, creative, data, production, and media disciplines. Experience with a distributed delivery model, leading diverse teams and collaborating in a multi‑cultural environment for end‑to‑end engagements. Effective systems thinking skills and ability to identify interconnectivity across multiple streams of work. Demonstrated experience navigating a large organization, showcasing the ability to influence with storytelling and data. Experience engaging directly with clients and comfortable with presenting to senior leaders. Strong project management experience. Process oriented with understanding of Agile ways of working and experience with methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, waterfall, and hybrid. Experience selecting, configuring, and administering a project management software for a large team or organization. Preferred systems: Smartsheet, Monday.com, JIRA. Effective leadership, analytical, conflict resolution, and negotiation skills. Experience with Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) and SharePoint.

Additional Information Publicis Groupe operates a hybrid working pattern with full time employees being office based three days during the working week. We are supportive of all candidates and are committed to providing a fair assessment process. If you have any circumstances such as neurodiversity, physical or mental impairments or a medical condition that may affect your assessment, please inform your Talent Acquisition Partner. We will discuss possible adjustments to ensure fairness. Rest assured, disclosing this information will not impact your treatment in our process. Please make sure you check out the Publicis Career Page which showcases our Inclusive Benefits and our EAG’s (Employee Action Groups). #J-18808-Ljbffr