Global Managing Partner, Performance & Investment

About the role

Spark Foundry, the acceleration agency of Publicis Groupe, is hiring a Managing Partner, Performance & Investment to lead and shape its Performance offering across Spark Foundry International. This is a senior leadership role with the scope to influence how Performance is delivered for some of the group's biggest clients across multiple markets. The role involves reviewing the current hub, building on what works and helping create the right structure and capabilities for the future.

Key responsibilities

• Evaluate how the Performance hub works today, identify what is working well and where improvements are needed, and help agree and put in place the right structure for the future.
• Bring together teams and expertise across markets, ensuring the right people, skills and ways of working deliver great results for clients.
• Act as a senior partner to clients and teams, bringing a strong point of view on Performance, solving complex client challenges and spotting opportunities to grow relationships and business.
• Play an active role in major pitches and, over time, help build capability across Commerce, Influence and Partnerships.

Required profile

• Senior media agency experience and deep Performance expertise, with an understanding of how Performance works within an agency and how to deliver for large, complex clients.
• Experience leading Performance across a multi-market hub, working across clients, markets and teams while keeping consistency.
• Experience shaping and improving a Performance operation, assessing an existing model and engaging senior stakeholders to put a better structure in place.
• Strong pitch and commercial experience, with a leading role in new business, presentations to senior clients and responsibility for the commercial health and growth of a Performance operation.

What we offer

• Pension, life assurance and private medical cover.
• Reflection Days and Shared Parental Leave.
• Access to Employee Action Groups and inclusive benefits.
• Work primarily from the office or clients' offices four days per week.