Senior Vice President, Group Client Director

Publicis Groupe; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Spark Foundry, part of Publicis Groupe, seeks a SVP, Group Client Director to lead the business relationship for a profitable account. The role oversees a team delivering media across TV, print, search, digital, social, and more, ensuring excellence and strategic alignment with client goals.

The role emphasizes senior relationship management, strategic vision, and collaboration with agency partners to drive growth and performance.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience developing strategic media recommendations.
• Strong leadership and ability to build productive teams.
• Experience with new business transitions and opportunities.
• Strong client-facing and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to work with corporate marketing teams and large divisions.
• Experience with high-volume performance accounts and data-driven analytics.

Responsibilities

• Build and own senior client relationships and conduct status sessions.
• Set strategic and tactical vision across agency and client teams.
• Develop a long-term client vision and growth opportunities.
• Drive content strategy and paid media value across channels.
• Collaborate with Creative, PR, and third-party partners.
• Manage team growth, performance reviews, and career development.

Skills

Media strategy

Leadership

Client relations

New business

Analytics

Collaboration

Job description

Company description

Spark Foundry was built during the most transformative time in the history of advertising and marketing. We deliver everything a traditional media agency has to offer and have grown into one of the world’s most successful agencies by helping brands evolve their marketing by leveraging identity, commerce, artificial intelligence, and more to connect with people. Transformation is part of our DNA. Spark Foundry’s start-up spirit delivers high-touch approaches and a never-ending desire to challenge the status quo. Combined with Publicis Media’s powerhouse soul leveraging connected data assets, advanced AI applications, and investment clout, we “Bring HEAT to Brands.” No other agency possesses the expertise that we do to address today’s most pressing challenges to drive business transformation through media.

Overview

The SVP, Group Client Director is the Business Lead responsible for earning and maintaining a trusted client partnership for the management of a profitable account. This role maintains a team of successful media practitioners that deliver client and agency goals (content channels include but are not limited to: television, magazines, search, digital, mobile, OOH, in-office, social, DR). You will also manage the holistic Spark Foundry team in delivering media excellence.

Responsibilities

• Build and own senior client relationships, regularly conduct in person and remote client status sessions, relationship management and development opportunities, vision setting discussions, and collaboration with client teams
  • Anticipates business risks, opportunities, and organizational changes before they become client issues
  • Core client stakeholders with regular contact include: SVP Marketing, VP Media lead, Sr .Media Directors
  • Travel to client up to 3-5x per quarter
• Set Strategic & Tactical vision across agency and client teams
  • Develops a clear long-term vision for clients and teams
  • Balances immediate business needs with future growth opportunities
  • Lead strategic approach for integrated marketing across all channels
  • Shapes the strategic agenda rather than reacting to client requests
  • Evaluate current health of client business via analysis of relevant business metrics while also seeking innovative solutions to deliver on clients’ goals
  • Review, critique, and help propose revisions to all client facing recommendations, including Strategic & Tactical Recommendations
  • Drive Content strategy & execution including use of paid media added value, influencers, social channels, etc.
• Proactively develop collaborative relationships with other client partners:
  • Creative, PR, any other 3P partners
  • Build partnerships with key media partners/suppliers
• Manage team growth by monitoring performance and guiding career development
  • Creates accountability and performance standards across teams
  • Ensure team deliverables are aligned with media strategy and are well versed in knowledge of the client’s business
  • Manage performance reviews, coaching to maximize success, and goal setting for career development and advocate for team members

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience developing strategic media recommendations and proven performance/knowledge across media
• Strong leadership skills and experience fostering a highly productive team with smart management, goal setting, and prioritization
• Prior new business transition experience highly encouraged
• Strong client facing and relationship building skills.
• Ability to relate to corporate marketing team as well as large division teams
• Experience with high volume performance account a plus
• Familiar with marketing science principles and problem solving / analytics used to influence a data-driven, quantitative approach in driving strategy
• Exemplify collaboration by building and maintaining productive relationships across internal teams and agency partners

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 $180,215.00 - USD $299,637.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. This role may also be eligible for bonus or incentive compensation. 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 10/30/2026.