Business Director

Powered locally and aligned globally, Publicis Production EMEA Hub forms the regional backbone of Publicis Production. With over 1.200 talented professionals based in the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, the UK, and Mauritius, we enable smarter, faster, and more connected content delivery for global brands. Our integrated capabilities include post and primary production, versioning, commerce, web development, CRM, and language services. As part of the global Publicis Production network, our mission is to transform production into a true growth driver. By combining tech, data, automation, and AI, we deliver intelligent content at scale. We are proud to power Publicis Groupe's ambition to build the world's best global integrated production offering.

Responsibilities

• Building constructive and strategic relationships with key client leaders, focused on consultancy in Regional Production.

• Recognized by the client as a strategic partner and collaborative problem solver, who can understand and prioritize the most important work and initiatives.

• Works closely with the client and their team to analyze market strategies, competition, business challenges and to meet expectations of the client.

• Building & maintaining proper delivery process with the key focus on the quality of the final deliverables.

• Leading and developing skilled team of individuals, mostly in the project manager roles who will be responsible for day-to-day contact with Publicis and client.

• Monitoring team capacity and steeping in when needed to remove obstacles.

• Overseeing complex through-the-line international projects in a fast-paced environment, controlling and taking responsibility of the quality and efficiency of the teams’ work. 

• Responsible for the annual account planning and activation process: ensuring that teams and agency processes are developed and orchestrated effectively.

• Creating a culture of collaboration - partner with other Publicis, Client to ensure consistency of the delivery across the market.

• Understand business objectives above and beyond client role by driving and actively participating in cross capability initiatives and further leverage the connected expertise of Publicis.

• Budget planning - comprehensive prospecting and preparation of budget assumptions for growth across client portfolio.

• Ensuring the teams deliver on budget, on time and to quality and within scope agreed, monitoring projects’ profitability and working with teams to get projects on track (where applicable). 

  
  

Qualifications

• Previous experience as a Programme Director/Business Director/HUB Lead in an advertising or production agency.

• Fluent business English – both written and spoken is a must. 

• Experience in working on an international account, with senior stakeholders, leading a production hub or an equivalent setup.

• Ability to manage working time, budgets, and the development of a team of several employees. 

• Ability to easily establish contact and build long-term relationships within Publicis (EMEA leads). 

• Ability to work in a very rapidly changing international environment. 

• Very good and efficient time management and organizational skills. 

• Self-starter, fast learner & can-do spirit, with a hands-on approach.

• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project) and ticket management tools (JIRA etc).

  
  

Additional Information

We offer the following:

• Opportunity to develop in a stable company with an established position in the market.

• Extensive range of online training courses in cooperation with reputable market partners.

• Opportunity to participate in international and local development projects and programmes.

• International working environment.

• Attractive package of non-wage benefits (medical care, the Nais benefit platform, life insurance program, recreation allowance, access to a platform for learning foreign languages, access to the Marcel international training platform, etc.).

• High working flexibility (we work in a hybrid model, with predominance of home office).

• Work Your World – opportunity to work from any place in the world for 6 weeks a year and access to the Home Swap Home internal platform.

• Friendly and casual working atmosphere in a close-knit team filled with positive energy.

At Publicis Groupe, we value diversity and invite all candidates to apply, regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, religion or lack thereof, origin or disability.