Associate Director, Optimization & Enablement

UNAVAILABLE

New York (NY)

On-site

USD 97,375 - 155,961

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental & Vision

401(k) plan

Job summary

Publicis Groupe is seeking an Associate Director, Business Transformation to lead the Business Optimization & Enablement workstream. You will drive process optimization, workflow redesign, and operating model design across a matrixed organization, coordinating solutions that improve efficiency and organizational effectiveness.

The role requires strong leadership, executive communication, and the ability to partner with senior leaders to deliver scalable improvements.

Qualifications

Strong experience leading business optimization, operational excellence, organizational effectiveness, or management consulting initiatives.
Demonstrated ability to oversee multiple complex initiatives and competing priorities.
Strong leadership skills with experience managing teams, coaching talent, and delivery excellence.
Deep expertise in process optimization, workflow redesign, operating models, governance structures, and organizational effectiveness.
Strong business analysis and structured problem-solving capabilities.
Experience developing methodologies, frameworks, and scalable approaches for process improvement and business optimization.

Responsibilities

Serve as the workstream leader, overseeing a portfolio of operational improvement and organizational effectiveness initiatives.
Lead prioritization, resource planning, staffing, and workload management across the workstream.
Partner with senior collaborators to identify business challenges, define priorities, and shape optimization strategies.
Provide strategic oversight for initiatives involving process improvement, workflow redesign, operating models, governance structures, and ways of working.
Ensure successful delivery across multiple concurrent initiatives by providing guidance, removing roadblocks, and supporting decision-making.
Establish and maintain methodologies, frameworks, templates, tools, and guidelines for business analysis, process optimization, and organizational effectiveness.
Oversee discovery, partner assessments, current-state evaluations, and future-state design activities across engagements.
Drive the development of executive recommendations, POVs, reasons, and implementation roadmaps.
Partner with business leaders to find opportunities to simplify, standardize, and optimize operations.
Collaborate closely with Project Management teams to ensure strong governance, execution planning, subject area communication, and delivery rigor.
Partner with the Systems Deployments & Integrations team to ensure technology solutions support business objectives, workflows, and operating models.
Facilitate partner alignment and decision-making across complex, cross-functional initiatives.
Support organizational change, communication, adoption, and enablement efforts associated with new processes and ways of working.
Develop executive-level presentations, recommendations, operating models, and strategic roadmaps for senior leadership.
Identify trends, recurring business challenges, and opportunities for enterprise-wide operational improvements.
Coach, mentor, and develop managers, and analysts while building capability and bench strength within the workstream.
Shape and evolve the Business Optimization & Enablement capability by identifying new service offerings, methodologies, and opportunities to expand team impact
Foster a culture of structured problem-solving, continuous improvement, collaboration, and delivery excellence.