Associate Director, Project Management

Overview
Company description
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.

HELPING OUR CLIENTS UNLOCK GROWTH IN THE PLATFORM WORLD
Our clients compete in the platform world, a horizontal marketplace between creators and consumers, between speakers and listeners, between buyers and sellers. To thrive in the platform world, companies must continue to innovate their products and business models. Four imperatives (1. Real Identity, 2. Dynamic, Diverse and Disruptive Creativity 3., Smart Media and 4. Direct Relationships) via our suite of world-class agencies, are necessary for modern brands to win in the platform world. At Publicis Groupe, we've invested in capabilities across these four imperatives our clients need to unlock growth. As the only one who can architect, build and orchestrate end to end solutions, not only do we have a proven record of building bespoke models for clients and leading expertise across all major industry categories, we are able to offer our talents more opportunities to grow and benefit from a richer learning experience. We call this Power of One. Powered by a 100,000-strong network via Marcel, our AI-based platform, we are also able to provide our clients and talents instant access to resource, knowledge for any need, any time, in any market.

THE SPIRIT OF VIVA LA DIFFERENCE
Viva La Difference is deeply rooted in everything we do. It has always been in our DNA. From the birth of Publicis, 94 years ago, when Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, our founder, invented French advertising. Viva La Difference expresses how we value and respect each individual and recognize what makes us distinctive. This is the charge that inspires our teams to celebrate the differences in identity, background, culture, and experience of all of us. It is how we behave with each other and our clients, and it is deeply rooted throughout our work, to elevate and bring to life our differences throughout the platform world.

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/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, , 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, , 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.

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