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Australia/New Zealand CSR Achievement of the Year– Publicis Groupe ANZ – Gold 2025

Asia-Pacific Best Place to Work (Network)– Publicis Groupe APAC - Winner 2025, 2024

Australian Business Awards- Employer of Choice 2024, 2023, 2022 & 2021

HR Awards Excellence Awardee- Employer of Choice 2022

AWEI Silver Accreditation 2025

Certified family friendly workplace

Welcome to Publicis Groupe ANZ.

Here you will get an inside look at life within our network, including the brilliant people working across our agency brands.

Publicis Groupe is a world leader in marketing communication and digital business transformation, driven through the alchemy of data, creativity, media, and technology. Our connected platform of companies and capabilities is more than an operational framework. It’s a cultural model we've built to unite our people in a collaborative way of thinking and working. Publicis Groupe offers its clients seamless access to the expertise of its 110,000+ talents across 100 countries globally.

In Australia, our powerhouse of marketing capabilities stretches across creative agencies Saatchi & Saatchi, Leo Burnett, Publicis Worldwide, media agencies Starcom, Zenith, Spark Foundry, Razorfish, Digitas, Epsilon, Arc, Prodigious, PMX, PR Herd MSL.

We also have Publicis Sapient driving digital business transformation for our clients.

Overview

At Publicis Sport & Entertainment, we believe the most powerful marketing happens at the intersection of brands, culture and fandom. We create integrated partnerships that connect brands with the communities, passions and moments that matter most, delivering measurable business impact through sport, entertainment, gaming, music,



fashion and beyond.

As part of the Publicis Groupe ANZ family, you'll work alongside some of the industry's brightest minds across media, creative, data, technology and content to create culturally relevant campaigns for leading brands.

We're looking for a Media Partnerships Director to join our growing team and play a key role in building our newly established media partnerships offering.

The Opportunity:

Reporting to the Head of Media Partnerships, you'll lead the day-to-day delivery of innovative partnership solutions that connect brands with audiences in meaningful ways.

From developing partnership activation strategies and managing client relationships to overseeing campaign execution and nurturing industry partnerships, you'll help shape work that drives both cultural relevance and commercial outcomes.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys building strong stakeholder relationships and wants to be part of a business experiencing significant growth.

What You'll Be Doing:

Partnership Strategy & Delivery

- Lead the implementation of integrated media and partnership solutions across sport, entertainment and culture.
- Work closely with clients to understand their business challenges and identify opportunities for growth.




- Manage the delivery of partnership campaigns, ensuring projects are delivered on time, on budget and to the highest standard.
- Collaborate with specialists across Publicis Groupe to build innovative, multi‑channel solutions.

Client Leadership

- Develop strong, trusted relationships with key stakeholders.
- Provide strategic recommendations that deliver measurable business outcomes.
- Lead responses to briefs and contribute to recent business opportunities.
- Ensure exceptional client service across every stage of the partnership lifecycle.

Industry & Partnership Management

- Build and maintain relationships with media owners, publishers, content partners and suppliers.
- Stay across emerging trends, platforms, fandoms and cultural moments.
- Identify new partnership opportunities that create value for clients and the business.

Commercial & Operational Excellence

- Manage campaign budgets, forecasting, billing and financial reporting.
- Oversee project workflows, timelines and stakeholder management.
- Support the continued development and growth of the Media Partnerships practice.

What You'll Bring

We're more interested in your experience and potential than ticking every single box, but ideally you'll have:

- 6+ years' experience in media partnerships, client services, brand partnerships, content partnerships, project management or a related field.
- Experience within agencies, media owners, publishers, entertainment businesses or partnership-focused organisations.
- Strong stakeholder management and client relationship skills.
- A track record of delive

📌 Media Partnerships Director (Melbourne)
🏢 Publicis Groupe
📍 Melbourne