Associate Director, Project Management

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Join to apply for the Associate Director, Project Management role at Publicis London Overview Publicis Groupe is one of the world’s largest communications holding companies, present in over 110 countries and employing about 100,000 professionals. The Groupe is positioned at every step of the value chain, from consulting to execution, combining marketing transformation and digital business transformation. 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/reinforce client rapport (e.g. partner with Client Services, team follow through, reports, meetings, timelines). Shape approaches and create meaningful views of scope across different services and capabilities. Ability to articulate delivery process/methodology effectively and successfully, clearly 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. Maintains media timelines & 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. Partners directly with client PMO for joint roadmap & coordination of meetings. Responsible for program management tool selection and administration, and reinforcing use across global medial leads & stakeholders; Smartsheet, Monday.com, JIRA. Partners 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. Experience with one or more of methodologies like scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile frameworks (SAFe, etc.), 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. London, England, United Kingdom Employment details
Seniority level: Not Applicable Employment type: Full‑time Job function: Project Management and Information Technology Industry: Advertising Services
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