Senior Associate, Business Operations, Apex

Company description

Apex is Publicis Groupe’s 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.

We’re not your typical agency. In fact, we aren’t an agency her, we are a distinct and next generation trading entity within Publicis Groupe. Furthermore, we’re experts and innovators in media– making investments today for tomorrow’s success. Our goals are rooted in providing unique and incremental benefits to Publicis Groupe clients:

The Senior Associate role will report into the Associate Director, Business Operations position and will be a part of the Operations Team. This team works collectively to ensure budget and revenue delivery, with clear communication across various investment teams and partner agencies (i.e. clients), with a focus on automation and system connections.

As a Senior Associate, Business Operations, you will be responsible for supporting the larger Business Operations team, inclusive of both Media Operations and Account Management. This role will serve as a key operational partner for both teams, as well as the broader cross-functional investment teams  ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys working with data and takes ownership of ensuring operational excellence.

• Provide administrative and operational support across multiple teams:
  Media Operations, Revenue Operations and Account Management
• Assist in the support of reporting in preparation for client value summaries and client spend reports
• Maintain Salesforce data integrity and hygiene to ensure accurate data entry
• Review daily reports to proactively identify and flag errors
• Support ongoing process improvements to reduce future errors
• Strong partnership and collaboration across internal teams to meet deadlines

We value diversity of thought and experiences at APEX! If you learned about media from the sales or agency side, that’s great but we do need people with advanced level of understanding of how media investment works.

• Responsible for working in a fast-paced environment with a diverse group of individuals, client accounts, vendors/partners and as a liaison between buying, planning, the creative and engineering community.
• Candidate will work on a variety of projects at one time acting as lead and serving as a supporting player on other team projects.
• Business financial acumen is preferred
• Advanced understanding of the media landscape is not required, but beneficial

Technical skills are a point of entry for the roles at APEX but we’re looking for exceptional talent with high emotional intelligence and soft skills that drives our culture.

• Is credible, courageous and persuasive
• Strong attention to detail and ability to keep the ball moving during project/product management and execution of content.
• Sense of confidence, presence, and clarity in communication and presentation styles.
• Strong sense of urgency with sensitivity to time pressures and multiple deadlines.
• Ability to manage multiple projects at one time while effectively communicating with all necessary parties (connecting the dots).
• Displays a growth mindset to go beyond their own remit
• Takes accountability when things go wrong
• Empowers others, giving…