Overview

The SVP, Media Strategy and Planning is an integrated media leader 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 Retail accounts. They share the responsibility of providing account leadership in partnership with key subject matter experts to drive media and marketing solutions.

Responsibilities

Client Media Strategy & Planning

• Serves as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders, translating complex business challenges into actionable media strategies
• Serve as a senior media strategy lead, 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 media performance, audience, and measurement, in partnership with agency investment and analytics teams, with strong understanding of the Retail 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

• Champion the ongoing evolution of the paid 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

• BA/BS, preferably in Marketing, Advertising, Business, or related field

• 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 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 Retail 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 $256,100.00/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 9/15/2026.