Associate Director, Communications, Change & Transformation

Publicis Groupe; New York (NY); On-site; USD 97,375 - 155,961; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Publicis Groupe in New York is seeking a high-performing transformation professional to drive change, communications, and adoption across large marketing and client programs.

You will partner with senior leaders, manage stakeholder engagement, develop compelling content and learning experiences, and translate strategic objectives into practical actions that deliver measurable adoption and business impact.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering transformation, change, and adoption initiatives.
• Experience developing communications, learning, and engagement programs.
• Strong stakeholder management and client relationship skills.
• Excellent storytelling and executive presentation capabilities.
• Ability to coordinate across multiple teams and workstreams.
• Experience in marketing, advertising, or agency environments.

Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of change, transformation and adoption strategies across client engagements
• Build trusted relationships with client and internal stakeholders, acting as a day-to-day partner across change, communications, and engagement activities
• Partner with Communications, Learning & Development, Agency, Strategy, and Consulting teams to develop partner engagement and scaled adoption approaches
• Translate transformation objectives into communication, learning, and content plans that drive awareness, understanding, capability building, and behavioral change
• Coordinate the development of communications, learning programs, engagement activities, and supporting content across multiple workstreams
• Review and refine presentations, communications, learning materials, and other client-facing deliverables to ensure quality, consistency, and strategic alignment
• Develop compelling presentations, workshop materials, executive communications, and change recommendations
• Facilitate partner workshops, working sessions, and discussions to drive alignment, engagement, and decision-making
• Identify partner challenges, adoption risks, and opportunities to strengthen program effectiveness
• Support the development of repeatable tools, templates, and guidelines that help scale transformation delivery across clients and teams

Skills

Change management

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Storytelling

Content development

Cross-functional coordination

Agency experience

Job description

Company Description

Publicis Groupe is a global leader in communication and is positioned at every step of the value chain, from consulting to execution, combining marketing transformation and digital business transformation. Through a unified and fluid organization, Publicis Groupe partners with its clients across communication, media, data and technology to ensure access to the full breadth of capabilities in every market. Present in over 100 countries, Publicis Groupe employs around 103,000 professionals.

Company Description

Publicis Groupe is a global leader in communication and is positioned at every step of the value chain, from consulting to execution, combining marketing transformation and digital business transformation. Through a unified and fluid organization, Publicis Groupe partners with its clients across communication, media, data and technology to ensure access to the full breadth of capabilities in every market. Present in over 100 countries, Publicis Groupe employs around 103,000 professionals.

Overview

This is a unique opportunity for a high-performing marketing, or advertising professional to play a key role in delivering transformation initiatives across some of our most strategic client engagements. Working alongside senior transformation leadership, you will help drive stakeholder engagement, communications, learning, adoption, and activation efforts across large-scale business and marketing transformation programs. The successful candidate will act as a connector across clients, capabilities, and delivery teams, helping translate transformation objectives into practical actions, compelling communications, engaging learning experiences, and measurable adoption outcomes. This role is ideal for someone who has excelled within a marketing, advertising, or agency environment, and is looking to broaden their experience across multiple clients, fields, and transformation initiatives while developing expertise in transformation, change, communications, and adoption.

Who Will Thrive In This Role

You are a strong agency, marketing, or advertising services professional who enjoys bringing people, ideas, and capabilities together to drive meaningful outcomes. You are curious, collaborative, and comfortable operating across multiple stakeholders and workstreams. You enjoy solving complex challenges, creating clarity from ambiguity, and helping organizations adopt new ways of working. Most importantly, you can confidently move between stakeholder management, facilitation, communications planning, content development, and day-to-day client engagement while maintaining a high standard of quality and professionalism.

Why This Role?

This role provides a unique opportunity to work across multiple clients, functions, and transformation programs rather than remaining focused on a single account or discipline. You will gain exposure to communications, learning, change management, consulting, strategy, and organizational transformation while helping shape how change and transformation is delivered across strategic client relationships.

Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of change, transformation and adoption strategies across client engagements
• Build trusted relationships with client and internal stakeholders, acting as a day-to-day partner across change, communications, and engagement activities
• Partner with Communications, Learning & Development, Agency, Strategy, and Consulting teams to develop partner engagement and scaled adoption approaches
• Translate transformation objectives into communication, learning, and content plans that drive awareness, understanding, capability building, and behavioral change
• Coordinate the development of communications, learning programs, engagement activities, and supporting content across multiple workstreams
• Review and refine presentations, communications, learning materials, and other client-facing deliverables to ensure quality, consistency, and strategic alignment
• Develop compelling presentations, workshop materials, executive communications, and change recommendations
• Facilitate partner workshops, working sessions, and discussions to drive alignment, engagement, and decision-making
• Identify partner challenges, adoption risks, and opportunities to strengthen program effectiveness
• Support the development of repeatable tools, templates, and guidelines that help scale transformation delivery across clients and teams

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of marketing and advertising functions, operating models, agency ecosystems, and industry terminology
• Experience within marketing, advertising, media, agency, consulting, or client services environments
• Experience supporting transformation, organizational change, communications, learning, adoption, or business improvement initiatives
• Experience developing or coordinating communications, content, learning, and engagement programs
• Strong stakeholder management and client relationship skills
• Experience influencing and coordinating cross-functional teams
• Excellent storytelling, presentation development, and executive communication capabilities
• Ability to move comfortably between critical thinking and hands-on execution
• Highly organized, proactive, and comfortable managing multiple priorities simultaneously

Additional Information

Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact [e-mail].

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Veterans Encouraged to Apply.

Compensation Range: USD $97,375.00 - USD $155,961.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 9/27/2026.