Job Information
Publicis Groupe Vice President Group Director, Technical Delivery Lead in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Company Description
Digitas Health is the Agency of Now: the first global connected-health agency, purpose-built for marketing today. Digitas Health specializes in helping health brands navigate a complex and shifting media environment to create deeper, more relevant connections with their consumer and professional customers. With offices in Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, and London, it is a member of the world’s largest healthcare communications network, Publicis Health. As a member of this elite network, Digitas Health is also a member of the Paris-based Publicis Groupe S.A. (Euronext Paris: FR0000130577), the world’s third-largest communications group, second-largest media counsel and buying group, and a leader in digital communications.
Web: www.digitashealth.com | Facebook: www.facebook.com/digitashealth | Twitter: www.twitter.com/digitas_health
Job Description
We’re searching for a Vice President Group Director, Technology to serve as the technical delivery lead for a client engagement, overseeing a cross-functional technical team. In this executive leadership role, you will be responsible for building, delivering, and scaling Digitas Health’s wide range of technical offerings to our clients. These services include marketing technology strategy, platform and tool recommendations, full-stack software/platform development, quality assurance, business analysis, and managed services. You will report to the Senior Vice President, Technology.
Your Responsibilities:
Executive leadership across client engagements, including setting processes and best practices
Overall health and client satisfaction of multiple client engagements
Explain agency views on digital business philosophies, keep clients updated on the latest technologies and leading the vision for growth for the long term
Lead a team of VPs, Technology Directors and Managers and the relationship with client IT or Technology teams
Develop relationships with our client marketing, customer experience, and promotional review teams
Grow current client engagements and leading technology involvement in new business efforts
Provide leadership and guide the implementation and activation of MarTech platforms; identify opportunities and provide recommendations for platform optimization through understanding of product roadmaps in correlation to client goals
Consult for estimation of projects and large-scale engagements and scope documents
Financial accountability for technology scopes
Forecast and maintain right-sized technology staffing across multiple engagements and projects
Remove impediments from both daily projects and organizational progress
Promote cross-capability team adherence to the SDLC process
Provide executive approval for technical requirements, production deployments, and policy documents
Collaborate with digital strategists during strategic development
Collaborate with business analysts, product owners, and project managers during the creation of requirements
Collaborate with Creative and UX teams in the design phase of the projects
Collaborate with the Technical Architects and client IT teams to design technical solutions
Stay current on latest marketing technologies, best-practices, and trends
Develop relevant case studies on client businesses and vendor partner experiences to help support optimization and new business initiatives
Manage the technology capability to adapt to changing environments and coach teams to successful solutions and skill development
Qualifications
Four-year degree (Computer Science or equivalent preferred) or equivalent work experience
12+ years of work experience in the marketing technology or IT space
10+ years of experience leading technical teams
5+ years of experience with Adobe Experience Cloud products or similar platforms including Salesforce, Sitecore and Acquia
4+ years of experience delivering enterprise omni-channel connected marketing solutions and experiences
Deep expertise with software development processes and conventions
Expertise with the foundational elements of web page anatomy and building blocks such as HTML, JavaScript, and CSS
Expertise with the marketing technologies and experience management platforms
Expertise with business and technical processes to enable technology solutions
Experience communicating project and team risks to leadership and clients
Experience leading client meetings, presentations, multiple simultaneous projects for multiple clients ,and new business efforts
Experience working within multiple project management methodologies
Experience with standard business software and industry-specific tools JIRA, Sketch, Zeplin, and automated testing
Understanding of accessibility (WCAG) best-practices
Familiarity with business operations such as margin, profitability, contract terms, and project burn
Creative agency experience or pharmaceutical industry experience
Recent Adobe certifications
You are open to travel (including internationally)
Additional Information
Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re 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 USMSTACompliance@publicis.com .
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Compensation Range: $159,500 - $269,000. 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. For this role, 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 10/28/2024. #LI-Hybrid 24-11344