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Associate Director, Communications, Change & Transformation

Publicis Groupe


Job Location:

New York City, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 21 August 2026 (21 days ago)
Application Deadline: 18 November 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Company Description

Publicis Groupe is a global leader in communication and is positioned at every step of the value chain from consulting to execution combining marketing transformation and digital business transformation. Through a unified and fluid organization Publicis Groupe partners with its clients across communication media data and technology to ensure access to the full breadth of capabilities in every market. Present in over 100 countries Publicis Groupe employs around 103000 professionals.

Overview

This is a unique opportunity for a high-performing marketing or advertising professional to play a key role in delivering transformation initiatives across some of our most strategic client engagements. Working alongside senior transformation leadership you will help drive stakeholder engagement communications learning adoption and activation efforts across large-scale business and marketing transformation programs.

The successful candidate will act as a connector across clients capabilities and delivery teams helping translate transformation objectives into practical actions compelling communications engaging learning experiences and measurable adoption outcomes.

This role is ideal for someone who has excelled within a marketing advertising or agency environment and is looking to broaden their experience across multiple clients fields and transformation initiatives while developing expertise in transformation change communications and adoption.

Who Will Thrive in This Role

You are a strong agency marketing or advertising services professional who enjoys bringing people ideas and capabilities together to drive meaningful outcomes. You are curious collaborative and comfortable operating across multiple stakeholders and workstreams. You enjoy solving complex challenges creating clarity from ambiguity and helping organizations adopt new ways of working. Most importantly you can confidently move between stakeholder management facilitation communications planning content development and day-to-day client engagement while maintaining a high standard of quality and professionalism.

Why This Role

This role provides a unique opportunity to work across multiple clients functions and transformation programs rather than remaining focused on a single account or discipline. You will gain exposure to communications learning change management consulting strategy and organizational transformation while helping shape how change and transformation is delivered across strategic client relationships.

Responsibilities
  • Support the delivery of change transformation and adoption strategies across client engagements
  • Build trusted relationships with client and internal stakeholders acting as a day-to-day partner across change communications and engagement activities
  • Partner with Communications Learning & Development Agency Strategy and Consulting teams to develop partner engagement and scaled adoption approaches
  • Translate transformation objectives into communication learning and content plans that drive awareness understanding capability building and behavioral change
  • Coordinate the development of communications learning programs engagement activities and supporting content across multiple workstreams
  • Review and refine presentations communications learning materials and other client-facing deliverables to ensure quality consistency and strategic alignment
  • Develop compelling presentations workshop materials executive communications and change recommendations
  • Facilitate partner workshops working sessions and discussions to drive alignment engagement and decision-making
  • Identify partner challenges adoption risks and opportunities to strengthen program effectiveness
  • Support the development of repeatable tools templates and guidelines that help scale transformation delivery across clients and teams
Qualifications
  • Strong understanding of marketing and advertising functions operating models agency ecosystems and industry terminology
  • Experience within marketing advertising media agency consulting or client services environments
  • Experience supporting transformation organizational change communications learning adoption or business improvement initiatives
  • Experience developing or coordinating communications content learning and engagement programs
  • Strong stakeholder management and client relationship skills
  • Experience influencing and coordinating cross-functional teams
  • Excellent storytelling presentation development and executive communication capabilities
  • Ability to move comfortably between critical thinking and hands-on execution
  • Highly organized proactive and comfortable managing multiple priorities simultaneously
Additional Information

Our Publicis Groupe motto Viva La Différence means were 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.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically please contact

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Veterans Encouraged to Apply.

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Compensation Range: USD $97375.00 - USD $155961.00/Annually. 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 9/27/2026.

Required Experience:

Director


About Company

Publicis Media is one of the four solutions hubs of Publicis Groupe ([Euronext Paris FR0000130577, CAC 40], alongside Publicis Communications, Publicis.Sapient and Publicis Healthcare. Led by Steve King, CEO, Publicis Media is powered by its five global brands, Starcom, Zenith, Spark ... View more

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