Saatchi & Saatchi

Senior Vice President, Global Media Planning and Strategy (CPG/Drink Account)

Saatchi & Saatchi$180K — $299K *
Food & Beverages
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree preferred in marketing, advertising, communications, or related field
  • 12+ years of experience in marketing and team management
  • Expertise in creating 1P audience strategies for media activation
  • Proven track record of successful client presentations and decision influencing
  • Strong leadership and motivational skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication abilities
  • Detail-oriented with strong analytical skills

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the primary contact for assigned clients
  • Develop and execute strategies to meet client goals such as ROI and audience growth
  • Support various media initiatives across multiple channels
  • Identify opportunities through active client engagement
  • Lead and mentor client interaction teams
  • Evaluate media options to achieve performance targets
  • Ensure delivery of high-quality client work

Benefits

  • Paid Family Care for parents and caregivers for up to 12 weeks
  • Monetary support for Adoption, Surrogacy, and Fertility
  • Employee Assistance Programs and wellness reimbursements
  • Tuition Assistance for ongoing education
  • Flexible paid time off policies, including vacation and volunteer days
  • Option to work from anywhere for up to 6 weeks annually
  • Support through Business Resource Groups for diverse affinities
Full Job Description
Overview

The Senior Vice President will lead global media planning and strategy for a high profile Drink/Beverage account. This SVP is a strategic leader and business partner who contributes to strategy, builds and maintains relationships with clients at all levels. The SVP manages, leads, and develops their team while also playing an active "hands-on" role in the deployment of strategic plans across the full paid, owned, earned spectrum. The SVP should also be fiscally accountable for ensuring proper budget management and identifying upside revenue potential for the agency.

Responsibilities

  • Act as a day-to-day point of contact and partner for assigned clients
  • Responsible for developing, implementing, and executing strategy to deliver on short- and longer-term goals (e.g., traffic, ROI, customer count, 1P audience growth, and brand metrics)
  • Support the spectrum of the client's media initiatives, including vendor-centric, endemic and non-endemic and audience-led RMN omnichannel planning
  • Actively listen to Clients and continually identify opportunities to lead thinking
  • Team leader for Client interaction fostering positive relationships
  • Evaluates composition of a wide range of media vehicles to determine which would most effectively reach the target audience and deliver on traffic and performance goals
  • Effectively communicates and solicits agreement of best opportunities for Client
  • Ensure the quality of work for all Client deliverables
  • Supervising, training, and developing staff (managing workload, delegating, and managing projects and resources, performance management)
  • Develop process improvements and best practices to ensure consistency, flexibility, and efficiency resulting in solutions that meet or exceed Client expectations
  • Ability to cross sell interagency products and services
  • Collaborate with business intelligence/analytics, data and investment teams to ensure strategic plans are powered by campaign performance data + insight and marketplace opportunity
  • Lead and mentor a team

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree preferred, preferably with a concentration in marketing, advertising, communications, business, sociology, or consumer insights
  • 12+ years of relevant experience with progressive levels of responsibility and business acumen in marketing and communications and team management
  • Demonstrated ability to generate 1P audience strategies that can be translated into effective media activation
  • Proven experience and success in presenting plans to Client and influencing top level Client decisions
  • Demonstrated critical thinking skill and strong problem-solving skills - navigates effectively through difficult issues, builds required consensus to drive business needs and results
  • Excellent leadership, management and motivational skills
  • Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills - effectively presents formal POV internally and externally
  • Excellent organizational, interpersonal, and quantitative/analytical skills
  • Strong Client presentation skills and business writing skills
  • Demonstrated expertise in strategic planning and Client relations
  • Detail oriented and proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
  • Critical assessor of talent - builds and motivates high performing teams
  • Able to direct long range planning and the development of programs to maximize organizational resources
  • Design and manage projects, resources, stakeholders, participants, and deadlines
  • High results orientation and able to effectively juggle and prioritize many competing demands - high tolerance to effectively manage change

Additional information

The Power of One starts with our people! To do powerful things, we offer powerful resources. Our best-in-class wellness and benefits offerings include:
  • Paid Family Care for parents and caregivers for 12 weeks or more
  • Monetary assistance and support for Adoption, Surrogacy and Fertility
  • Monetary assistance and support for pet adoption
  • Employee Assistance Programs and Health/Wellness/Comfort reimbursements to help you invest in your future and work/life balance
  • Tuition Assistance
  • Paid time off that includes Flexible Time off Vacation, Annual Sick Days, Volunteer Days, Holiday and Identity days, and more
  • Matching Gifts programs
  • Flexible working arrangements
  • 'Work Your World' Program encouraging employees to work from anywhere Publicis Groupe has an office for up to 6 weeks a year (based upon eligibility)
  • Business Resource Groups that support multiple affinities and alliances


The benefits offerings listed are available to U.S. based employees, are reviewed on an annual basis, and are governed by the terms of the applicable plan documents.

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. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility 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 8/17/2026.

About Saatchi & Saatchi

Saatchi & Saatchi is a global advertising agency headquartered in New York City. The company was founded in London in 1970 by brothers Maurice and Charles Saatchi and is now part of the Publicis Groupe, a French multinational advertising and public relations company. Saatchi & Saatchi has over 6,000 employees in 114 countries and provides a range of advertising and marketing services to clients in various industries, including automotive, consumer goods, financial services, and telecommunications. The company is known for its creative and innovative advertising campaigns, including the iconic 'Nothing is Impossible' campaign for Toyota. Saatchi & Saatchi has won numerous awards for its work, including Cannes Lions, Clios, and Effies.
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