Associate Director, New Business

Company Description

Publicis Media harnesses the power of modern media through global agency brands CJ, Performics, Publicis Collective, Publicis Health Media, Spark Foundry, Starcom and Zenith. A key business solution of Publicis Groupe ([Euronext Paris FR0000130577, CAC 40], Publicis Media’s digital-first, data-driven global practices deliver client value and drive growth in a platform-powered world. It is present in more than sixty countries with over 23,000 employees worldwide.

As Publicis Media’s most exciting new agency solution, Infinite Roar offers our employees the opportunity to have an immediate role in influencing our processes and approaches, shaping our solutions, and building the industry’s most heralded middle-market monster. Come roar with us!

Job Description

At Infinite Roar, we celebrate diversity, recognizing that our strength often arises from our differences.  We strive to foster an environment and build a culture where every member of our team feels: Seen, Heard, Valued, and Appreciated. We aim to help every employee meet their career goals while helping our clients achieve their business goals. 

To ensure our clients get the attention and talent they deserve, Infinite Roar leaders assemble a “dream team” – people with relevant experience making every dollar work like three; who have relevant experience in our clients’ categories; who are thrilled to provide high-touch client service at every turn; and who understand how to unlock the vast resources of our global network in service of our clients’ goals. People who have raised their hands to help challengers grow. People like you!

To accelerate our growth, we are looking for a strategic, proactive, and well-organized leader to drive new thinking and deliver truly innovative work. Reporting to the SVP, this role will help lead the development of pitch presentations, materials, and communications to drive new and organic business growth to deliver on our aggressive goals.

We’re looking for an ambitious individual to fill this role, someone who isn’t afraid to share their ideas and opinions within a supportive and collaborative work environment. Embedded within the PM Business Development & Growth team, the Associate Director, Growth will help manage new business pitches. This is a fast-paced job that will require everything from assembling written responses to inbound queries to developing and executing pitch theater to managing internal systems and processes. This role is a career accelerator with high levels of exposure to senior management across Publicis Media.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and organize pitch teams in answering RFI/RFP questions, chasing responses, editing responses, and preparing pitch presentations
• Lead and support the development of pitch presentations including critiquing and editing media plan content, brainstorming big ideas, and developing the pitch “story”
• Manage and motivate the pitch team while guiding and enabling pitch timelines, checkpoints, accountabilities, deliverables, design, production, and travel needs
• Collaborate and lead communications with local, regional, and global teammates, stakeholders, departments, and agencies
• Actively participate in presentation rehearsals by preparing presenters, ensuring key message points are hit, and ensuring the pitch “story” is clear, concise, and strategic
• Identify new ways to drive innovation and efficiency within the pitch process and amongst the Growth team
• Establish strong, collaborative connections with client and team members to work seamlessly together

Qualifications

• Relevant, successful experience, including 3-5+ years in media, marketing, communications, or consulting
• Strong verbal and written communication skills – ability to manage strategic written and verbal communications with a keen focus on soliciting feedback and driving consensus
• Proactive, forward-thinker who quickly can understand what will be needed and drive against it
• Superb project and time management skills with the ability to operate in a fast-moving, high-pressure environment comfortably and effectively
• Ability to establish productive working relationships and champion collaboration and discussion
• Detail-oriented, exceptional organization skills, with the ability to review and ensure accuracy of outputs, data, and storylines
• Innovation at the core, confidently bringing forth new thinking, approaches, and capabilities
• Ability to drive simplification and clarify complex concepts, constructs, and language for clients and teams alike
• Solution-oriented – ability to solve problems and identify solutions both independently and in collaborative group settings
• Proficient in PowerPoint, Word, and Excel
• Some travel may be required for meetings and pitches
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