Senior Vice President, Strategy

Company description

Zenith is one of Publicis Groupe’s largest media agencies, spanning 95 markets globally with US offices in New York, Burbank, Chicago, Atlanta and Detroit. For more than 30 years, we have been at the forefront of media, helping to evolve and reshape the industry. We are highly regarded as a true agency partner by many high-profile brands for our expertise across numerous categories and wide range of capabilities that are unparalleled in the industry. Clients hire us for our track record of excellence in strategic planning, investment, and measurement. We also have specialist offerings, including content, commerce, multicultural and future-proofed data capabilities.

Overview

The SVP, Strategy will provide consistently superior media strategies, ideas and marketplace solutions tailored to fast‑paced client. They will act as Client Lead across strategy for North America and Global Strategy Lead overseeing brand‑side strategy and work in lockstep with the SVP, Investment who acts as the Investment Lead for North America and the Global Investment Lead.

Responsibilities

• Own the regional leadership role, setting expectations locally while representing the region globally (being both ad advocate and critical voice when needed)
• Primary day‑to‑day client contact for ongoing questions, feedback, and requests
• Guide strategy development & tactical decisions
• Coach the team on strategy fundamentals and media basics
• Sense‑check recommendations for feasibility and alignment to client expectations
• Ensure briefs are fully understood and reflected accurately in outputs
• Tighten and clarify work to add strategic polish and reduce rework
• Act as the escalation point for executional questions and clarifications as well as issues
• Final review and QA tactical plans, decks, and deliverables in detail before they go to the client (ensure consistency/accuracy)
• Assist with managing the following:
  • Translating client feedback directly and clearly to the team
  • Managing timelines closely, including negotiating due dates and sequencing deliverables
  • Tracking open items, follow‑ups, and action items across workstreams
  • Troubleshooting executional issues as they arise
  • Coordinating internally to keep work moving and prevent bottlenecks
  • Reoccurring budget management

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 – 12 years of media experience with extensive planning knowledge
• Superior client service experience with proven ability to provide strategic media plans
• Bachelors degree
• Experience across all media types (national, local, direct, OOH)
• Ability to anticipate and quickly assess continually changing client needs and adapt resources and strategies accordingly
• Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, organizational, interpersonal and analytical skills
• Ability to translate numbers into viable business solutions to enhance strategies and meet deliverables
• Excellent leadership ability to drive team to deliver results
• Strong listener who absorbs nuance, context, and feedback without defensiveness (particularly around team feedback and ways of working)
• Trusted day‑to‑day client point of contact
• Service‑oriented mindset; focused on getting the work right
• Clear, responsive communicator (can keep an organized inbox/teams chat)
• Highly detail‑oriented and methodical; consistently catches gaps, inconsistencies, and missed asks
• Carefully tracks what was explicitly requested
• Calm under pressure; able to manage urgency without unnecessary escalation
• Pragmatic and flexible around timelines, trade‑offs, and prioritization
• Natural problem solver with a continuous improvement mindset
• Solid understanding of tactical media execution across channels to QA work and answer questions in real time
• Comfortable being close to the work and in the weeds when needed
• Collaborative coach to junior team members, guiding execution and problem‑solving

Additional information

Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

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Veterans Encouraged to Apply

Compensation Range: $180,215-$245,000. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. 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 6/1/2026.

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