FTC Associate Director - Global Strategy Enablement & Operations

Publicis Groupe Holdings B.V; Greater London; Sur place; GBP 80 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Pension

Life Assurance

Private Medical cover

Reflection Days

Shared Parental Leave

Résumé du poste

Publicis Groupe in London is seeking an Associate Director to design and deliver capability programmes, shaping how strategy, data, and platforms are adopted across the Global Strategy Team. You’ll translate priorities into actionable learning, communications, and engagement plans while shepherding complex initiatives with senior stakeholders.

You will lead cross-functional teams, manage planning and knowledge-sharing, and evolve tools and processes to ensure consistent, measurable impact across

Qualifications

• Strong programme leadership with ability to manage multiple workstreams.
• Experience designing internal engagement and enablement programmes.
• Ability to translate strategic priorities into practical plans and materials.

Responsabilités

• Lead the design and delivery of capability programmes and major workstreams.
• Define target audiences and rollout and learning approaches.
• Lead cross-functional programme teams and coordinate stakeholders.
• Turn complex content into clear, practical experiences for adoption.
• Plan and deliver senior internal communities and knowledge hubs.
• Develop comms and engagement plans for diverse audiences.
• Facilitate workshops and training and use feedback to improve programmes.
• Drive operational initiatives to improve planning, knowledge management, and employee experience.
• Design tools and frameworks that support collaboration across teams.

Connaissances

Programme leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Outils

Copilot

SharePoint

PowerPoint

Excel

Description du poste

Company description

Publicis Media harnesses the power of modern media through leading agency brands Dysrupt, Infinite Roar, Publicis Collective, Publicis Health Media, Spark Foundry, StarcomandZenith, as well as global accelerator PMX; immersive experience group PMCI and access to integrated platform-based technologies and offerings from CJ, EpsilonandInfluential.

The Groupe is positioned at every step of the value chain, from consulting to execution, combining marketing transformation and digital business transformation. Publicis Groupe is a privileged partner in its clients’ transformation to enhance personalization at scale. The Groupe relies on ten expertise concentrated within four main activities: Communication, Media, Data and Technology. Through a unified and fluid organization, its clients have a facilitated access to all its expertise in every market. Present in over 100 countries, Publicis Groupe employs around 115,000 professionals.

Overview

OPPORTUNITY

As an Associate Director of Global Strategy Enablement & Operations, you’ll play a central role in designing and delivering programmes that help strategic capabilities gain traction across Publicis Media. Working with subject-matter experts and teams across Strategy & Planning, Research, Data Strategy, and Platform, you’ll translate priorities into clear, engaging programmes that help employees understand, adopt, and apply new capabilities.

Alongside this, you’ll help strengthen how the Global Strategy Team operates, shaping planning, learning, knowledge-sharing, employee experience, and core ways of working. This role is ideal for someone who combines strong programme leadership with an ability to bring structure, clarity, and momentum to complex initiatives.

Location: London

Reporting To: Global Strategy Operations Director

Other key relationships:

Global Strategy Team, Capability Leads, Global Client Leads, Local Market Teams, Data Strategy, Platform

Responsibilities

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

As an Associate Director in the Global Strategy Enablement & Operations team, you will:

• Lead the design and delivery of capability programmes and major workstreams, translating strategic priorities into clear objectives, plans, and employee experiences.
• Define target audiences and recommend appropriate rollout, engagement, communications, and learning approaches based on their needs.
• Lead cross-functional programme teams, coordinating stakeholders, timelines, dependencies, communications, and delivery across multiple workstreams.
• Partner with subject-matter experts to turn complex content into clear, practical, and engaging experiences that support capability adoption.
• Lead the planning and delivery of senior internal communities, shaping monthly agendas with Strategy and Data leads, coordinating contributors, facilitating sessions, managing communications, and ensuring knowledge hubs and follow-ups are kept up to date.
• Develop communications and engagement plans for different audiences, including practitioners, support teams, and senior stakeholders.
• Facilitate and deliver workshops, training, and engagement sessions, and use feedback and relevant measures to improve programmes over time.
• Lead operational initiatives across the Global Strategy Team, helping improve planning, knowledge management, learning, employee experience, and ways of working.
• Design and evolve tools, processes, and frameworks that support consistency, visibility, and effective collaboration across global and local teams.

Qualifications

KEY SKILLS & COMPETENCIES

Soft Skills & Behaviours

• Clear and confident communicator, able to influence and collaborate across teams and levels of seniority.
• Strong programme leader who can bring structure to complex initiatives and keep multiple workstreams moving.
• Skilled at simplifying complexity and turning strategic ideas into practical plans, experiences, and communications.
• Strong relationship-builder, comfortable working with subject-matter experts, senior stakeholders, and cross-functional teams.
• Proactive problem-solver with sound judgement and the confidence to make recommendations in ambiguous situations.
• Curious and adaptable, with a strong interest in how people engage with and adopt new capabilities and ways of working.

Technical Skills & Knowledge

• Strong experience in programme or project management, including planning, stakeholder management, dependencies, risks, and delivery.
• Experience designing internal engagement, communications, learning, or enablement programmes for different employee audiences.
• Skilled in developing clear programme materials, communications, frameworks, and tools that others can easily understand and use.
• Comfortable facilitating workshops, training, or engagement sessions and working with subject-matter experts to shape content for broader audiences.
• Good understanding of team operations, including planning, knowledge management, onboarding, learning, employee experience, and people processes.
• Strong working knowledge of planning, collaboration, and documentation tools such as Copilot, SharePoint, PowerPoint, Excel.

Additional information

Publicis Media offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees. Full details are shared when you join, but highlights include core benefits such as Pension, Life Assurance, and Private Medical cover, alongside enhanced policies like Reflection Days and Shared Parental Leave. You’ll also have access to a range of additional initiatives, including:

Publicis Groupe works primarily from the office or our clients' office four days per week.

At Publicis Media, we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion or belief, disability, age, citizenship, relationship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected characteristic.

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