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Publicis Groupe is the second largest communications group in the world. Founded in Paris in 1926, we are present in more than 100 countries as leaders in marketing, communication, and digital business transformation. Two of its biggest solution hubs in Singapore - Publicis Communications and Publicis Media & Digital.
Publicis Communications, the creative communications hub of the Publicis Groupe, is a collective of the most passionate, purposeful, and progressive creative agencies in Singapore. They are Publicis Worldwide, Leo Burnett, Saatchi & Saatchi, Prodigious, and MSL.
Publicis Media & Digital, which is comprised of global media agency brands Starcom, Zenith, Spark Foundry, and Performics, is powered by digital-first, data-driven global practices that together, help our clients navigate the modern media landscape.
Our two other solution hubs, Publicis Sapient and Publicis Commerce, empower businesses to embrace digital transformation and equip them with a total commerce experience.
Overview
The Associate Director, Orchestration Lead, OneMars supports the day-to-day orchestration of the Mars AMEA transformation and operating model across markets, capabilities and workstreams.
The role ensures the OneMars AMEA ecosystem runs with clarity, discipline and momentum. It coordinates transformation initiatives, governance cadences, market updates, workstream progress, stakeholder communications and operational follow-through across the region.
Sitting at the centre of the account delivery rhythm, this role makes the Power of One model work in practice by bringing structure to complexity, keeping stakeholders aligned, surfacing issues early and ensuring decisions and actions are followed through.
Responsibilities
Regional Orchestration and Governance
- Support governance across regional leadership, market teams and capability workstreams.
- Coordinate cadences, agendas, action logs, follow-ups and status updates.
- Capture and cascade decisions, priorities and next steps.
- Maintain visibility across transformation, operations and market priorities.
- Support preparation for regional forums, business reviews and client meetings.
Transformation Delivery Support
- Coordinate and track transformation initiatives across Mars AMEA.
- Translate priorities into clear actions, owners, timelines and follow-through.
- Monitor progress across pilots, process changes, tools, templates and adoption.
- Identify dependencies, blockers and gaps, escalating early with proposed solutions.
- Codify learnings, playbooks and repeatable processes that enable scale.
Integrated Capability Coordination
- Work across media, data, performance, biddable, commerce, production, PR, social and influencer teams.
- Connect the right capability experts to client and market needs.
- Clarify roles, responsibilities, inputs and expected outputs.
- Maintain RACIs, trackers, governance maps, timelines and stakeholder lists.
- Reduce duplication and fragmented ways of working.
Operational Alignment and Delivery Management
- Support the day-to-day operating rhythm of OneMars AMEA.
- Track milestones, deliverables, risks and dependencies.
- Partner with Operations, Finance and capabilities on workload and process visibility.
- Prepare status updates, meeting notes, leadership summaries and client-ready materials.
- Bring structure to ambiguous asks by defining the brief, inputs, owners and timeline.
Stakeholder Communication
- Act as a central coordination point across regional, market and capability teams.
- Support clear, timely communication and shared expectations.
- Prepare concise updates for Mars stakeholders, Publicis leadership and internal teams.
- Surface risks, open questions and decision needs in a solutions-oriented way.
- Build trust through responsiveness, organisation and collaboration.
Measurement and Continuous Improvement
- Maintain trackers for transformation, governance and operational priorities.
- Support measurement of adoption, delivery progress, process improvement and feedback.
- Identify what is working, what is not and where to improve.
- Recommend practical improvements to ways of working, templates and reporting.
- Support retrospectives and learning loops.
Qualifications
- 8+ years in account management, integrated marketing, media, transformation, project management or regional coordination.
- Experience in complex, matrixed or multi-market client environments.
- Understanding of integrated agency ecosystems across media, data, creative, production, commerce and social.
- Proven ability to manage timelines, stakeholders, trackers, actions and governance.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including client-ready materials.
- Experience supporting transformation, operating model or change initiatives is advantageous.
Additional Information
Leadership Attributes
- Highly organised and able to create structure from ambiguity.
- Calm, proactive and solutions-oriented under pressure.
- A clear communicator who simplifies complex information.
- Collaborative across teams and markets.
- Detail-oriented while understanding the wider business context.
- Reliable follow-through and strong ownership.
What Success Looks Like
- The Mars AMEA operating rhythm is clearer, organised and easier to follow.
- Transformation workstreams have stronger tracking, follow-through and visibility.
- Market and capability teams align on priorities, actions and expectations.
- Risks, blockers and decision needs surface early and are proactively managed.
- This role becomes a trusted orchestration partner across OneMars AMEA.
