FTC Associate Director - Global Strategy Enablement & Operations

Publicis Groupe UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Life Assurance

Private Medical cover

Reflection Days

Shared Parental Leave

Job summary

Publicis Media in London is seeking an Associate Director to drive Global Strategy Enablement and Operations. You will design and deliver capability programmes, lead cross-functional teams, and translate strategic priorities into practical learning and engagement experiences across Strategy, Research, Data Strategy, and Platform teams.

You will shape planning, knowledge sharing, and employee experience, coordinating with global and local teams.

Qualifications

• Clear and confident communicator able to influence 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 with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
• Proactive problem-solver with sound judgement for ambiguous situations.
• Curious and adaptable with interest in how people engage with new capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of capability programmes and major workstreams translating priorities into objectives and employee experiences.
• Define target audiences and recommend rollout, engagement, communications, and learning approaches.
• Lead cross-functional programme teams coordinating stakeholders, timelines, dependencies, communications, and delivery across workstreams.
• Partner with subject-matter experts to turn complex content into engaging experiences that support capability adoption.
• Lead planning and delivery of senior internal communities and monthly agendas with Strategy and Data leads.
• Develop communications and engagement plans for practitioners, support teams and senior stakeholders.
• Facilitate and deliver workshops, training, and engagement sessions and measure impact to improve programmes.
• Lead operational initiatives to improve planning, knowledge management, learning, and employee experience.
• Design and evolve tools, processes, and frameworks for visibility and collaboration.

Skills

Clear communication

Programme leadership

Strategic thinking

Influence across teams

Bringing structure to complex work

Tools

Copilot

SharePoint

PowerPoint

Excel

Job description

Company Description

Publicis Mediaharnesses the power of modern media through leading agency brandsDysrupt, Infinite Roar, Publicis Collective, Publicis Health Media, Spark Foundry, StarcomandZenith, as well as global acceleratorPMX; immersive experience group PMCI and access to integrated platform-based technologies and offerings fromCJ, 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 RESPONSIBILITIESAs 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 monthlyagendas with Strategy and Data leads, coordinating contributors, facilitating sessions, managing communications, and ensuring knowledge hubs and follow-upsare kept up to date.
• Develop communications and engagement plans for different audiences, includingpractitioners, support teams, and senior stakeholders.
• Facilitate and deliver workshops, training, and engagement sessions, and usefeedback and relevant measures to improve programmes over time.
• Lead operational initiatives across the Global Strategy Team, helping improveplanning, knowledge management, learning, employee experience, and waysofworking.
• Design and evolve tools, processes, and frameworks that support consistency,visibility,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 teamsand levels of seniority.
• Strong programme leader who can bring structure to complex initiatives and keepmultiple 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 makerecommendations in ambiguous situations.
• Curious and adaptable, with a strong interest in how people engage with and adoptnew 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 toolssuch as Copilot, SharePoint, PowerPoint, Excel.

Additional Information

Publicis Mediaoffers 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:

Please check out thePublicis Career Page which showcases our Inclusive Benefits and our EAG’s (Employee Action Groups).

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

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