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About the Role

At Zenith, performance is viewed as a growth engine. As a Senior Performance Manager, you will be central to a global blue-chip client, influencing how audiences experience a brand across markets and moments. This high-profile role offers unmatched scale, complexity, and visibility, allowing you to shape how performance media drives meaningful business outcomes across your client portfolio. You will set the standard for performance media, ensuring seamless integration between strategy, planning, activation, and optimization to drive measurable marketing growth.

Responsibilities

Build trusted, senior-level relationships with clients through proactive sharing of latest market knowledge, general media industry topics, and competitive intelligence.
Present performance outcomes, optimization strategies, and activation learnings to clients during WIPs and QBRs.
Spearhead end-to-end activation of Digital campaigns (Programmatic, Direct Digital, Social, Search), ensuring flawless launch, accurate set-up, and achievement of performance benchmarks.
Ensure quality control from briefing media through buying, optimization, and reporting, with budgets spent effectively and within approved limits.
Oversee post-campaign reports, performance updates, and client presentations; influence performance narratives in Quarterly Business Reviews and feed actionable learnings back into planning.
Review outcomes of audits and MMM studies, implementing improvements where needed.
Enforce the use of briefing templates, ensuring briefs have clear context and timely feedback is given to media partners.
Provide planning costs and tactical recommendations to enhance media plans and deliver ROI across digital channels.
Stay close to performance trends and insights, proactively identifying opportunities to improve results or mitigate risk.
Assist in the development of Digital I&A Executives by providing feedback and guidance, and helping them deliver their KPIs.
Develop the team’s commercial acumen, strategic thinking, and solution-finding abilities beyond technical implementation.
Identify areas for improvement and provide feedback to direct reports and the offshore Activations team, seeking alignment from the Director.
Oversee workload across the team to ensure they can deliver on accountabilities and attend training and development sessions.
Effectively oversee workflow and communications with the offshore team to ensure seamless campaign implementation and reporting.
Make informed choices in high-pressure circumstances, seeking win-win outcomes.
Be deeply qualified and assured with activation platforms, systems, and tools used across performance channels.
Assist teams in using platforms correctly and confidently, with a strong focus on output interpretation and decision-making.
Troubleshoot delivery or system issues as they arise and escalate effectively when required.
Ensure consistent use of activation templates, processes, and best-practice ways of working across accounts.
Act as the best representative of core values by contributing to the broader agency culture and initiatives, projecting confidence, energy, and building team morale.
Actively participate in brainstorms, internal forums, team training, and development to enhance craft knowledge and share learnings across teams, especially emerging connection opportunities.

Requirements

Proven experience in Performance Media.
Strong experience in Paid Search, Social, and Programmatic.
Excellent grasp of planning & activation.
Experienced in working knowledge of Google paid search platforms (Google Ads, SA360), the Microsoft Advertising platform, as well as key platforms like Meta, LI, TTD etc.
Managerial experience preferred.
Strong communication experience, both written and verbal.
Solution seeker and strong analytical thinking.

Skills

Performance Media
Paid Search
Social Media Advertising
Programmatic Advertising
Media Planning
Media Activation
Google Ads
SA360
Microsoft Advertising
Meta
LinkedIn Ads
The Trade Desk (TTD)
Client Relationship Management
Data Analysis
Optimization Strategy
Digital Campaign Management

Location

Global

Work Type

Flexible working options
Progressive flexible working

Experience Level

Senior
Manager

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 collaboration.
Extensive Learning & Development opportunities via online platform (Marcel Classes).
Culture of open feedback and support through Career Conversations program.
Committed Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion strategy.
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 per 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.
Supportive and recovery-forward culture for employees with life-threatening illnesses.
Partnerships with Diversity Council Australia, Pride in Diversity, Family Friendly Workplaces, Supply Nation, and the Australian Disability Network.

About the Company

Zenith is a connected team with purpose, driven to create new perspectives through modern media.
We believe marketing is a powerful investment that builds brands and increases profitability by placing consumer behavior, attitudes, and insights at the heart of everything we do.
We pride ourselves on delivering return on investment, imagination, and insight.
We are committed to attracting, retaining, developing, and growing the brightest talent in the industry.
Our behaviors are: Be Bold, Be Kind, Be Better Together.
We are determined to eradicate any barriers that prevent our people from achieving their fullest potential.
Mental health & wellbeing is a priority, championed internally and a regular conversation.
We have fun and are constantly reinventing how we connect with each other.
Publicis Groupe is a recent winner of the Employer of Choice Awards and one of the world's most progressive and dynamic modern communications businesses.

Equal Opportunity

We focus on hiring people who share our values of inclusion, collaboration, adaptability, fearlessness, and integrity rather than ticking boxes.
Diversity. Inclusion. Equity. are part of our DNA.
We are committed to the inclusion and recognition of all people regardless of race, age, culture, ability, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, and religious affiliation.
We believe that to deliver the best solutions to our clients, our people need to reflect the diverse communities in which our clients operate.
We value diversity and the skills, knowledge, and experience that difference brings to our culture and solutions.
Uniqueness is powerful; without it, we wouldn't be where we are today.
We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments for people with disability or those that require additional support throughout the application process.