Saatchi & Saatchi

SVP, Media Strategy & Planning (Financial Services)

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

Qualifications

  • 15+ years of experience in digital and traditional media strategy within an agency
  • 10+ years of experience in staff management and team leadership
  • Proven track record of leading large client accounts and achieving measurable growth
  • Experience in winning media pitches and new business opportunities
  • Ability to navigate complex organizations and develop market strategies
  • Strong data analysis skills to translate insights into actionable strategies
  • Extensive experience in managing Financial Service accounts

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a trusted advisor to senior clients, creating actionable media strategies
  • Lead media strategy on key accounts, ensuring alignment with client objectives
  • Develop and implement comprehensive media plans and budget strategies
  • Direct data-driven communications plans that leverage consumer insights
  • Manage strategic planning across various media channels and measurement processes
  • Innovate omni-channel customer experiences and oversee cross-channel executions
  • Drive the evolution of the strategic discipline and upskill team capabilities

Benefits

  • Paid Family Care for parents and caregivers
  • Monetary support for Adoption, Surrogacy, and Fertility
  • Reimbursement for pet adoption expenses
  • Comprehensive Employee Assistance Programs
  • Tuition Assistance for personal and professional growth
  • Flexible Paid Time Off policies including volunteer and identity days
  • 'Work Your World' program for remote work flexibility
  • Support through Business Resource Groups for diverse employee affiliations
Full Job Description
Overview

The SVP, Media Strategy and Planning is an integrated Media & Experienceleader who ensures creative, media, audience strategy, and measurement work as one connected system. This person serves as a senior strategic partner to clients, delivering the innovative media strategies that fuel success for a book of business primarily focused on Financial Service accounts. They share the responsibility of providing account leadership.

Responsibilities

Client Media Strategy & Planning
  • Serves as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders, translating complex business challenges into actionable media strategies
  • Serve as the senior media strategy lead on key accounts, overseeing the full media strategy and planning function in collaboration with client teams to ensure business targets and goals are met
  • Develop, implement, and drive strategy inclusive of media mix modeling, scenario planning, and strategic budget guidance that advances client business outcomes
  • Lead the development of communications plans - directing data needs, uncovering business and consumer insights, defining business-driving strategies, and creating inventive connections plans that bring those strategies to life
  • Lead strategic planning across brand, performance, audience, and measurement with strong understanding of Financial Service landscape/industry
  • Bring thought leadership and fresh perspective grounded in a deep understanding of omni-channel customer experience, with the ability to manage downstream, cross-channel campaign executions
  • Partner with creative, data, and cross-functional teams to translate strategies into business-driving ideas and direct long-range campaign planning to ensure best use of resources
  • Build and lead a scaled brand and performance strategy, planning, and research capability with a track record of breakthrough innovation
  • Champion the ongoing evolution of the strategy discipline, upskilling teams to maintain a competitive edge for the agency and its clients


Leadership & Culture
  • Drive the agency's Innovation and Thought Leadership agenda - both as a growth asset and as an engine for modern marketing solutions
  • Provide staffing recommendations, team development, and daily supervision to ensure a high-performing, future-ready team
  • Ensure connectivity across all relevant internal and external stakeholders

Qualifications

  • 15+ years of experience spanning digital and traditional media strategy, planning, and business development within an agency environment
  • 10+ years of staff management experience with proven ability to lead teams, set strategic vision, and execute
  • Demonstrated success leading major client businesses and strategy for large, complex accounts resulting in measurable growth and client satisfaction
  • Experience in media pitches and new business with a proven track record of wins
  • Experience navigating holding company and large, matrixed organizations; skilled at partnering with practice leads to co-develop go-to-market strategies and positioning
  • Ability to translate data into actionable business solutions that enhance strategies and meet deliverables
  • Deep experience supporting and leading Financial Service accounts

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 eligible 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 1/1/2027.

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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