Management Supervisor, Experiential

Publicis Groupe ANZ; Los Angeles, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 97,000 - 149,000; Full time

Job summary

Publicis Groupe ANZ’s Team One agency seeks a Management Supervisor to oversee experiential initiatives from strategy to execution, ensuring strong governance and measurable results.

The role partners with the Director, guiding junior staff, managing budgets, client and vendor relationships, and driving growth of the Experiential Marketing discipline across automotive and luxury brands.

Travel up to 25% may be required to support program rollouts nationwide.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Sports Management, Advertising, or Communications.
• 7+ years of experiential marketing, event marketing, sponsorship/partnership marketing, or sports marketing experience, including leadership experience.
• Proven experience in managing complex, multi-market experiential programs.
• Strong financial management experience, including budget oversight and program forecasting.
• Exceptional organization and project management skills with the ability to oversee multiple initiatives simultaneously.
• A proactive, pro-starter mindset with the ability to anticipate needs and drive initiatives forward independently.
• Strong presentation and communication skills – both written and verbal.
• Ability to build trusted relationships with senior clients, internal teams, vendors, and partners.
• Experience with Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint (Photoshop experience is a plus but not required).
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment while maintaining strong attention to detail.
• Flexibility to work evenings, weekends, and travel as needed (potentially up to 25%).
• Professionalism, humility, creativity, and sound judgment in leadership and decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Lead Experiential Markets & Programs: Manage initiatives from concept through execution and post-program analysis.
• Client & Partner Leadership: Maintain relationships and present strategy, recommendations, and metrics to clients.
• Discipline Growth & Operational Excellence: Improve departmental operations and grow the Experiential Marketing discipline.

Skills

Leadership

Experiential marketing

Budget management

Client relationship

Multi-market programs

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business/Marketing/Communications

Tools

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Job description

Company description

About Team One:

Team One is Publicis Groupe’s fully integrated media, digital, and communications agency built to help premium brands thrive in a rapidly evolving world. We’re known as the ‘architects of aspiration’ helping luxury brands reach modern affluents and next-gen consumers through culturally fluent strategies and experiences, unmatched access, and the agility to move at the speed of culture.

We’re a team of 400+ creators, doers, and difference-makers across six North American offices—Los Angeles (our HQ), Dallas, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, and Boise. Together, we’re proud partners to iconic brands, including Lexus and the Lexus Dealer Association, Marriott International, The Ritz‑Carlton, Barclays, The RealReal, HKS Architects, Metabo HPT, KB Home, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Moët Hennessy, Citi., and Cathay Pacific Airlines.

We take pride in our industry‑shaping creativity, connection, and exceptional culture that have been recognized with honors like Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators and Ad Age’s Best Places to Work.

Overview

The Management Supervisor will oversee multiple experiential initiatives from strategy through execution, ensuring strong operational structure, disciplined project management, and measurable results. Duties include oversight to multiple experiential program strategies, planning, budgets, executions and analysis. A pro-starter mindset is essential – someone who proactively identifies opportunities, creates solutions, and drives programs forward with clarity and purpose.

Serving as a key contributor and the right hand to the Director, this position is essential to departmental operations. They must exhibit leadership skills with the ability to guide, nurture and grow the junior staff within the department. Working closely with leadership, this role maximizes efficiencies, explores opportunities for improvement, and ensures extensive interaction within the agency, as well as daily contact with clients and outside vendors. The ideal candidate should have experience in automotive and/or luxury brand experiential marketing, promotions and strategic partnerships.

Responsibilities

Lead Experiential Markets & Programs

• Manage experiential initiatives, guiding programs from concept through execution and post-program analysis.
• Research and develop new and relevant initiatives that meet client’s objectives.
• Develop strategies to support Lexus sales plans, vehicle launches and retail initiatives.
• Manage program budgets.
• Travel, when necessary, for site-checks/inspections, meetings and experiential events around the country.

Client & Partner Leadership

• Maintain beneficial relationships with mid-level clients and partners.
• Communicate and present experiential strategy, recommendations, execution, recaps and metrics to Lexus clients.

Discipline Growth & Operational Excellence

• Support the Director in creating and maximizing efficiencies across departmental operations, including asset tracking, budget allocations, partner evaluations, and creative requests.
• Continue to grow and evolve the Experiential Marketing discipline, increasing the team’s profile within the agency, to clients, and within the greater marketing communications community.
• Research and communicate competitive activity to internal teams and clients.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (preferably in Business, Marketing, Sports Management, Advertising, or Communications).
• 7+ years of experiential marketing, event marketing, sponsorship/partnership marketing, or sports marketing experience, including leadership experience.
• Proven experience in managing complex, multi-market experiential programs.
• Strong financial management experience, including budget oversight and program forecasting.
• Exceptional organization and project management skills with the ability to oversee multiple initiatives simultaneously.
• A proactive, pro-starter mindset with the ability to anticipate needs and drive initiatives forward independently.
• Strong presentation and communication skills – both written and verbal.
• Ability to build trusted relationships with senior clients, internal teams, vendors, and partners.
• Experience with Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint (Photoshop experience is a plus but not required).
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment while maintaining strong attention to detail.
• Flexibility to work evenings, weekends, and travel as needed (potentially up to 25%).
• Professionalism, humility, creativity, and sound judgment in leadership and decision-making.

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.

Compensation Range: USD $97,375.00 - USD $149,296.00/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. 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 9/28/2026.