Senior Vice President, Media Planning Client Lead

Publicis Groupe • Chicago, IL

115d • $176,700 - $263,655

About The Position

Responsible for generating strategic media initiatives and leading all aspects of media planning for one of our key client accounts.

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant experience with progressive levels of responsibility and business insight in marketing and communications and team management.
• Must have online and offline media experience.
• Offline experience will be TV, Print, Radio, OOH.
• Online experience will consist of Display, Search, Social, Mobile, and Content Marketing.
• Fluency with Media Tools and solid understanding of Digital Planning tools.
• Proven experience and success in presenting plans to Client and influencing top level Client decisions.
• Demonstrated critical thinking skill and strong problem-solving skills.
• Excellent leadership, management and motivational skills.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• Excellent organizational, interpersonal, and quantitative/analytical skills.
• Strong Client presentation skills and business writing skills.
• Demonstrated expertise in strategic planning and Client relations.
• Detail oriented and proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Critical assessor of talent - builds and motivates impactful teams.
• Able to direct long range planning and the development of programs to increase organizational resources.
• Design and manage projects, resources, stakeholders, participants, and deadlines.
• High results orientation and able to effectively juggle and prioritize many competing demands.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and drive strategy to define the future direction of Client business.
• Actively listen to Clients and continually find opportunities to lead thinking.
• Team leader for Client interaction fostering positive relationships.
• Identify key target insights based on Client brief necessary for formulating communication strategy.
• Evaluate composition of a wide range of media vehicles to determine which would most effectively reach the target audience.
• Effectively communicate and solicit agreement of best opportunities for Client.
• Ensure the quality of work for all Client deliverables.
• Serve as key resource for local markets in defining media strategy and media plans.
• Supervise, train, and develop staff (managing workload, delegating, and managing projects and resources, performance management).
• Develop process improvements and procedures to ensure consistency, flexibility, and efficiency resulting in solutions that meet or exceed Client expectations.
• Serve as leadership and content development coordinator for all Client presentations.
• Ability to cross sell interagency products and services.
• Collaborate with business intelligence/analytics, data and investment teams to identify consumer learning needs and drive consumer insight generation, analysis/interpretation.

Benefits

• Paid Family Care for parents and caregivers for 12 weeks or more.
• Monetary assistance and support for Adoption, Surrogacy and Fertility.
• Monetary assistance and support for pet adoption.
• Employee Assistance Programs and Health/Wellness/Comfort reimbursements.
• Tuition Assistance.
• Paid time off that includes Flexible Time off, Vacation, Annual Sick Days, Volunteer Days, Holiday and Identity days.
• Matching Gifts programs.
• Flexible working arrangements.
• 'Work Your World' Program encouraging employees to work from anywhere.
• Publicis Groupe has an office for up to 6 weeks a year (based upon eligibility).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services