Company description

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 cooperative 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, Publicis Worldwide), media agencies (Starcom, Zenith, Spark Foundry, Performics, Atomic 212), Razorfish, Digitas, Epsilon, Arc, Prodigious, PXP, PMX, and PR (Herd MSL). We also have Publicis Sapient driving digital business transformation for our clients.

Overview

About the role

Join a high-performing, award-winning People & Culture team where you’ll play a key role in shaping employee experiences across the full lifecycle. Supporting dedicated agencies within the Groupe, you’ll partner with leaders to deliver practical, commercially focused people solutions, while contributing to broader P&C; strategy and projects across the business.

This is a true generalist role with impact:



from coaching leaders and navigating ER matters to driving engagement, talent, and culture initiatives.

What you’ll do

Partner with leaders

- Coach and guide managers to build high-performing teams
- Provide expert advice on performance, ER, engagement, and reward
- Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders

Drive people strategy

- Implement agency-level people initiatives (e.g. retention, performance, L&D;, DE&I;)
- Contribute insights and support wider group P&C; projects
- Translate business needs into practical people solutions

Own employee lifecycle delivery

- Lead performance management, grievances, and investigations
- Support talent mapping and succession planning
- Partner on recruitment decisions and workforce planning
- Oversee onboarding, offboarding, and employee experience moments

Enhance culture & engagement

- Lead engagement initiatives and action planning from survey insights
- Drive inclusion and culture programs
- Contribute to recognition and employee experience initiatives

Support core P&C; programs

- Remuneration cycles and benchmarking
- Learning & development delivery and uptake
- Visa and immigration processes
- Compliance, policy, and people data integrity

What you bring

- ~4+ years in People & Culture, including advisory experience in a complex or matrix environment
- Strong working knowledge of Australian employment law (Fair Work Act, NES)
- Proven ability to build credibility with senior stakeholders
- Experience across the full employee lifecycle
- High level of judgement, critical thinking, and discretion
- Adaptability and comfort working in a fast-paced, evolving environment
- Strong communication skills and a proactive, solutions-focused mindset

Why join us?

- Be part of a collaborative, high-impact P&C; function
- Work across diverse agencies and stakeholders
- Get exposure to strategic projects and enterprise-wide initiatives
- Partner with Centres of Excellence across L&D;, D

📌 People & Culture Leader — Strategy, Talent & Engagement (Sydney)
🏢 Publicis Groupe
📍 Sydney