Specialist, Digital Activation

Apex is Publicis Groupes futures marketplace leveraging Publicis capital to create risk-free value-based investment opportunities for clients. Our industry expertise understanding of consumer and market trends and strategic partnerships enable Apex to deliver innovative omnichannel solutions for clients that drive a range of marketing and business goals. Apex solutions help shape the industry drive outcomes and keep Publicis clients ahead of trend.

ABOUT THE TEAM
The Specialist role will report into the Supervisor position and will be a part of the Digital
Strategy & Activation Team. This team works collectively to ensure that we have a thorough
understanding of and a pulse on the media landscape make smart investments with media
partners negotiating mutually favorable terms and plan and execute client media buys that

best deliver on their business and marketing objectives.

ABOUT THE ROLE
The expectations for this role fall into 3 key categories:

1. Developing Teams & Talent
- Understand roles and responsibilities within the team.
- Contribute to training of Sr Associates/Associates on their team and
billing/reconciliation team individuals.
- Reviews and supports goals of Sr./Associates.

2. Delivering on Our Value Proposition
- Participate in meetings with partners.
- Understands partner portfolio offerings and can identify client opportunities.
- Participate in negotiations for assigned clients and campaigns.
- Identify performance issues with partner and manage optimization conversations
for select mid-level accounts. Develop campaigns that partner with preferred
partners.
- Execute campaign management and delivery in full of select mid-level accounts
across most steps independently with great accuracy
- Participate in negotiations.
- Develop with support performance and delivery of select mid-level accounts.

3. Managing Business & Operations
- Manage campaign activation; contribute to template and buy entry.
- Leads RFP/post-sale process for select mid-level accounts and can serve as first
touch QA for Associates.
- Can execute process with some oversight and high degree of accuracy.
- Participate in discrepancy resolution for assigned clients and campaigns.
- Establish expectations through clear communication with client and vendor.
- Understands billing process through owning RFI process reconciliation of invoices
in Prisma and approvals on the Unbilled Report for select mid-level accounts.
- Contribute to data input across various tools.
- Proficient in MS Office Suite OX/Prisma Salesforce etc.
- Keeps Salesforce up to date for assigned accounts.

TECHNICAL SKILL REQUIREMENTS
We value diversity of thought and experiences at APEX! If you learned about media from the
sales or agency side thats great but we do need folks with basic level of understanding of
how media investment works.

- 2-5 years of experience with Basic knowledge of media is critical for success in this
role
- Diverse backgrounds and experience are welcome including Agency
Planning/Investment Media Sales Consulting and/or Media Client Side
- Basic knowledge of Salesforce and MS Office Suite (must be proficient in Excel)
- Strong media financial acumen is mandatory
- Business financial acumen is preferred
- Basic understanding of the media landscape

SOFT SKILL REQUIREMENTS
Technical skills are a point of entry for the roles at APEX but were looking for exceptional
talent with high emotional intelligence and soft skills that drives our culture.

- Has strong relationships trust respect and support from others
- Hungry to work hard to meet/exceed expectations
- Adapts well embraces and drives change
- Acts transparently with others
- Leads with positivity and inclusivity to inspire those around them

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.

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