Project Manager

Position Overview

Publicis Production is looking for a highly organized and proactive Project Manager to lead the end-to-end delivery of integrated creative and production projects across multiple markets. This role will serve as the operational link between clients, account teams, creative, strategy, production, technology, and external partners, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, and on budget. The ideal candidate has experience managing high-volume production workflows in a fast-paced agency or production environment, with strong stakeholder management skills and advanced English communication capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

Project Leadership & Delivery

• Manage the complete lifecycle of integrated marketing and production projects from intake through final delivery.
• Define project scope, timelines, resources, milestones, and dependencies.
• Ensure projects are delivered on schedule, within budget, and according to quality standards.
• Identify risks proactively and implement mitigation plans.
• Drive accountability across multidisciplinary teams.

Production Operations

• Coordinate creative adaptation, localization, digital content production, asset versioning, social content, and campaign deployment activities.
• Support efficient workflow management across regional and global production hubs.
• Monitor workload capacity and resource allocation.
• Ensure compliance with established production processes, governance standards, and SLAs.

Stakeholder Management

• Act as the primary point of contact for internal and external stakeholders regarding project status and delivery.
• Facilitate communication between clients, account teams, creatives, strategists, developers, producers, and vendors.
• Lead status meetings, project reviews, and stakeholder updates.
• Build trusted relationships with cross-functional teams.

Financial & Operational Management

• Support project forecasting, budgeting, and profitability tracking.
• Monitor project hours, resource utilization, and scope changes.
• Ensure proper documentation, approvals, billing requirements, and project records.
• Report project performance metrics to leadership teams.

Process Improvement

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to increase efficiency and delivery excellence.
• Contribute to workflow optimization, automation opportunities, and best-practice development.
• Support adoption of project management methodologies and production tools.
• Promote innovative solutions, including AI-enabled production workflows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Advertising, Marketing, Communications, Business Administration, Project Management, or related field.
• 3–6 years of Project Management experience within advertising agencies, creative agencies, production companies, content studios, or marketing organizations.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience supporting regional or global clients is highly preferred.
• Knowledge of integrated campaign production, digital marketing, content creation, and creative workflows.

Technical Skills

• Advanced knowledge of project management methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, Hybrid).
• Strong understanding of creative and production workflows.
• Experience with:
• Workfront
• Jira
• Asana
• Monday.com
• Airtable
• Microsoft 365
• Google Workspace
• Ability to analyze project data, dashboards, and resource planning metrics.

Key Competencies

• Exceptional organizational skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Excellent communication and presentation abilities
• Problem-solving mindset
• Stakeholder management
• Time and priority management
• Adaptability and resilience
• Strategic thinking
• Team collaboration
• Results orientation

Language Requirements

• Advanced English (C1+) – Mandatory
• Ability to lead meetings, present project updates, negotiate timelines, and communicate effectively with global stakeholders.

Why Join Publicis Production?

Join a globally connected production network delivering world-class creative solutions powered by talent, technology, automation, and innovation. Work with multidisciplinary teams across markets while contributing to the future of scalable content production for some of the world's most recognized brands.