Project Manager

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.

Overview

We’re looking for a Project Manager; the role is focused on aligning stakeholders, establishing workflows, and ensuring systems and teams are ready for go-live.

This is a strategic delivery role requiring strong stakeholder management, operational planning, and cross-functional coordination. You’ll work closely with senior leaders to ensure readiness and long-term success.

Responsibilities

Programme Setup & Coordination

• Lead the setup phase across workflows, tools, teams, and reporting structures.

• Coordinate cross-functional stakeholders including client leads, technology teams, and senior leadership.

• Contribute to the design and validation of operational workflows and systems integration, leveraging key platforms including project management software, collaboration solutions, and production tracking tools.

Stakeholder Management

• Act as a central point of contact across departments to drive alignment and clear communication.

• Ensure readiness plans are developed, approved, and actioned.

• Facilitate regular status updates and check-ins with senior stakeholders, including client-side contacts, agency partners, and external vendors, across complex multi-stakeholder environments.

Production Alignment

• Ensure production frameworks (Explore / Originate / Execute / Optimise) are embedded in workflows.

• Help define success metrics and monitor early-stage performance, including on-time delivery, budget adherence, stakeholder satisfaction, and quality benchmarks.

• Proactively identify risks, resource gaps, and inefficiencies, with clear mitigation plans and escalation protocols.

  
  

Qualifications

• Strong project management experience in production or creative agencies; project management accreditation preferred.

• Experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder programmes.

• Proven success in account setup or transformation phases.

• Familiarity with matrix organizations and global campaign delivery, managing projects across multiple markets and time zones.

• Excellent communicator, confident working with senior stakeholders, demonstrating adaptability, resilience, and emotional intelligence.

• Strong operational mindset: anticipates challenges and drives clarity.

• Collaborative and decisive, able to influence and lead across teams.

• Experience with production agencies.

• Exposure to global CPG or FMCG accounts.

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.