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About the Role

At Zenith, performance is a growth engine. This Senior Performance Director role is central to a global blue-chip client, shaping brand experiences across markets. It's a high-profile opportunity to drive meaningful business outcomes through performance media, setting ambition, direction, and standards. The role translates complex business objectives into performance-led solutions with commercial impact, partnering with senior stakeholders for clear leadership. It oversees markets and teams, ensuring consistent, market-leading performance capability and continuous evolution through data, technology, and innovation. We seek a leader with deep performance media expertise, strong strategic thinking, and commercial acumen, confident in influencing senior levels, inspiring teams, and defining excellence in performance.

Responsibilities

Develop and own global performance strategy, activating with local nuance across key markets.
Ensure strategy aligns with business outcomes within a single performance measurement framework.
Lead a team activating digital channels (programmatic, search, social) for consistent quality and strategic coherence.
Provide thought leadership on effectiveness, consolidating results across markets into a unified performance measurement framework.
Act as the client's go-to performance advertising expert and team figurehead for performance media.
Contribute to upstream brief responses and larger strategic conversations.
Maintain in-depth knowledge across all performance media channels and platforms.
Effectively plan and buy performance media, leading responses on key briefs and new business opportunities.
Collaborate with digital client teams to enhance planning outputs and capability.
Upskill teams, share knowledge, and promote performance excellence across all markets.
Build and own a strong point of view on performance channels and market opportunities.
Drive innovation through testing, learning, trialling betas, and partnering with PMX.
Lead and manage team outputs across planning, implementation, optimisation, reporting, and billing.
Quality control implementation responses and plans, ensuring storytelling, logic, substantiation, and detail.
Ensure effective campaign optimisation and ongoing performance monitoring.
Be deeply familiar with systems and tools to support teams in usage and interpretation.
Solve system issues directly or identify appropriate escalation paths.
Lead, manage, and develop high-performing teams, fostering a motivated and engaged culture.
Manage team members' growth and development, including direct report reviews, goal setting, and career plans.
Onboard new team members into operational processes, goals, and vision.
Allocate resources across competing workstreams, maintaining capacity awareness.
Train and mentor team members in performance planning, buying, optimisation, reporting, presentation, and client service skills.
Act as a figurehead for behavior, standards, and ways of working, communicating direction clearly.
Identify talent gaps, support hiring, and build succession plans.

Requirements

Proven experience leading performance media strategy across multiple markets or global clients.
Demonstrated ability to translate business objectives into performance-led strategies that drive measurable growth.
Experience setting direction, standards, and frameworks for performance across planning, activation, and optimisation.
Strong, hands-on knowledge across Paid Search, Paid Social, and Programmatic.
Background in activation with knowledge across SA360, Meta, DV360, TTD, Ad verification, and Brand safety platforms (preferred).
Experience overseeing end-to-end campaign delivery (planning, buying, optimisation, reporting).
Ability to quality control strategy, execution, and outputs across multiple channels and teams.
Strong understanding of performance measurement frameworks linking media to business outcomes.
Experience with advanced analytics, attribution, and performance reporting tools.
Working knowledge of tracking, tagging, and performance data interpretation.
Senior advisor to clients, contributing to strategic conversations and brief responses.
Ability to influence senior stakeholders and lead strategic performance conversations.
Proven track record leading and developing high-performing teams across performance disciplines.
Experience in coaching, mentoring, and building capability across teams and markets.
Experience managing direct reports, performance reviews, and career development planning.
Performance, Analytical, and Solutions focused.
Commercially minded, focused on measurable business outcomes and continuous improvement.
Confident communicator who can simplify complexity.
Collaborative, inclusive, and team-oriented.
Adaptable and comfortable navigating change.
Detail-oriented, organised, and accountable.

Skills

Performance Media Strategy
Paid Search
Paid Social
Programmatic
SA360
Meta
DV360
TTD
Ad verification platforms
Brand safety platforms
Advanced Analytics
Attribution
Performance Reporting Tools
Tracking
Tagging
Performance Data Interpretation
Team Leadership
Coaching
Mentoring
Client Service
Strategic Thinking
Commercial Acumen
Communication
Problem Solving

Experience Level

Senior
Proven experience leading performance media strategy
Proven track record leading and developing high performing teams

Benefits

Comprehensive Wholeself program supporting physical, mindful, and financial wellbeing.
Creative, lively, and rewarding office environment.
Publicis Liberté flexibility approach ("working your way with us").
Access to Global AI Platform Marcel for career mobility and global collaboration.
Extensive Learning & Development opportunities (15,000+ programs via Marcel Classes).
Culture of open feedback and support through Career Conversations program.
Committed Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion strategy (Viva Women, Égalité, enABLE, EmbRACE, Écologique committees).
Birthday Leave.
Flexible Public Holidays.
Additional 5 days of leave after 2 years of service.
Work Your World program (work from anywhere for up to 6 weeks/year).
Parental leave policy (up to 18 weeks based on tenure, paid primary carer leave, secondary carer swap, Cub Care leave).
Access to counsellors, psychologists, and professionals through Sonder (digital wellbeing platform).
Workplace supporting employees with life-threatening illnesses (Working With Cancer Pledge).
Proud partners of Diversity Council Australia, Pride in Diversity, Family Friendly Workplaces, Supply Nation, and the Australian Disability Network.

About the Company

Zenith is a connected team driven to create new perspectives through modern media.
Believes marketing is a powerful investment for building brands and increasing profitability.
Unlocks growth opportunities by placing consumer behavior, attitudes, and insights at the heart of operations.
Delivers return on investment, imagination, and insight.
Values its people, attracting, retaining, developing, and growing bright talent.
Operates with behaviors: Be Bold, Be Kind, Be Better Together.
Determined to eradicate barriers preventing people from achieving their fullest potential.
Offers progressive flexible working options, reinforced through values.
Prioritizes mental health & wellbeing, championed internally.
Fosters a fun environment, constantly reinventing connections.
Part of Publicis Groupe, a winner of the Employer of Choice Awards.
Seeks a supportive and collaborative culture.
Encourages innovative thinking from clients.
Provides ambition to fulfill career goals within a large business.

Equal Opportunity

Encourages applications from all, even if not every requirement is met, focusing on values of inclusion, collaboration, adaptability, fearlessness, and integrity.
Committed to inclusion and recognition of all people regardless of race, age, culture, ability, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, and religious affiliation.
Believes diverse people reflect diverse communities and deliver best client solutions.
Values diversity and the skills, knowledge, and experience difference brings.
Committed to providing reasonable adjustments for people with disability or those requiring additional support.