Company description
Who We Are in the UK?
Spark Foundry, the Acceleration Agency.
We help brands to identify, learn and respond to opportunities faster than the competition.
Every client has an area of their business they need to accelerate, from short-term goals to long-term transformation.
We’ve proven our approach during the most difficult year on record. Now we’re using it to provide a launchpad for their future.
Come be an accelerator with us.
How we accelerate
- Planning: an approach that works in practice rather than theory, arming planners with the ability to create cutting edge campaigns
- Intelligence: a suite of tools that give definitive answers to big questions, and uncovers actionable insights about real people
- Trading: a model built on flexibility and trusted relationships, underpinned with bold guarantees
- Relationships: a culture of asking challenging questions to better understand the brief – we are not a ‘yes’ agency
- People: a strong history of recruiting talent from diverse backgrounds and accelerating their careers
Our Commitment
We are diverse though our experience, people and the clients we look after - and we celebrate that diversity. Our people hold us accountable to our beliefs and via regular surveys and our grass roots D&I team, The Collective, and internal next generation board, Firestarters, we hold regular events and work continually towards generating ideas, initiatives and educating our people to ensure we are a diverse and inclusive agency.
As part of our dedication to create an inclusive and diverse workforce, Spark Foundry is committed to equal access to opportunity for people without regard to race, age, sex, disability, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, gender identity or religion.
OverviewThis role is a 12 months maternity cover.
The Head of Programmatic is a key leadership role that will oversee the growth and development of the channel within Spark Foundry. This role has the direct responsibility and accountability for the leadership & management, quality of product output and commercial running of the department.
The individual will be expected to manage and coordinate a team of channel specialists creating plans and delivering campaigns across a range of programmatic platforms. You will be expected to champion the Spark Foundry best practice approach to delivering campaigns, strategy coordination and communication. You will be a leader, creating an environment where all members of the team have an opportunity to fulfil their potential and deliver exceptional work for Spark. Your role in shaping and driving the commercials, innovation and strategy within the teams will be vital.
ResponsibilitiesDepartment Commercials
- Revenue: Ensure revenue targets are met
- Team costs: Tracking and reporting on team structure and costs.
- Commercial: Identify areas of opportunity for commercial growth where additional funding is required for further resource and services
- New business: Develop, pitch, and implement new / innovative ways to develop the channel offering through additional services outside of the existing scope of work. Support the agency in pitching for new business.
- Revenue diversification: Champion and drive profitability through our bespoke inhouse tools
Responsible for Operational excellence & quality output
- Brilliant basics including QA processes, accurate planning, and optimisation. These should be consistently assessed in line with changes in platforms and industry update to maintain relevance.
- Finance: Absolute financial accuracy and adherence to all processes (team training, query management, sticking to SLA’s as set by the business, PO management, finance tracking via relevant dashboards, ensuring supplier invoices are cleared within the required timelines)
- Best in class output: Maintain and develop best practice guidelines and create additional material enabling the team to deliver excellence from planning through to optimisation
- Innovation/Product development: Working with Head of Performance to drive innovation and adopt products that will drive efficiencies and quality output.
Responsible for delivering Client Performance & Growth
- Client satisfaction: Creating and overseeing the implementation of client TRR roadmaps
- Client innovation: Responsible for developing and achieving quarterly channel roadmap and test & learn plans to deliver innovation and growth across the department
- Client relationship: Be the lead point of contact for the discipline across the client portfolio. Building relationships is key with this role and will see you working with key senior clients, influencing, and driving strategies at this senior level
- Client revenue and FTE: Maintain accurate and up to date view of revenue forecasts, commissions, spend levels and resourcing levels across your department.
- Regular forecasting: Take ownership of the revenue forecasting for the channel.
Team/People
- Development plans and objectives: Set clear objectives by level to allow for a clear process for progression
- HR Processes: Monitor team performance and output to spotlight areas of development for team members
- Certifications and Training: Build, oversee and deploy annual certification and training plan across your departments and relevant vendors to ensure 100% compliance / certification of all team members
- Onboarding processes: Own and oversee the onboarding process for all new starters to ensure a welcoming and consistent experience
- Succession planning for teams: Clear development road maps and team mapping to ensure we have a view of promotions/succession etc.
Department:
- Partners/Media owners: Relationships, JBP’s, training, challenging for support – develop a strong partnership with all media owners in your channel
- Expand The Team’s Profile: Surface and share great work from the team, collate case studies and share internally and externally
- Awards: Enter industry awards for your discipline
Additional informationSpark has fantastic benefits on offer to all of our employees. In addition to the classics, Pension, Life Assurance, Private Medical and Income Protection Planswe also offer;
- WORK YOUR WORLD opportunity to work anywhere in the world, where there is a Publicis office, for up to 6 weeks a year.
- REFLECTION DAYS - Two additional days of paid leave to step away from your usual day-to-day work and create time to focus on your well-being and self-care.
- HELP@HAND BENEFITS 24/7 helpline to support you on a personal and professional level. Access to remote GPs, mental health support and CBT. Wellbeing content and lifestyle coaching.
- FAMILY FRIENDLY POLICIES We provide 26 weeks of full pay for the following family milestones: Maternity. Adoption, Surrogacy and Shared Parental Leave.
- FLEXIBLE WORKING, BANK HOLIDAY SWAP & BIRTHDAY DAY OFF You are entitled to an additional day off for your birthday, from your first day of employment.
- GREAT LOCAL DISCOUNTS This includes membership discounts with Soho Friends, local restaurants and retailers in Westfield White City and Television Centre.
Full details of our benefits will be shared when you join us!
Publicis Groupe operates a hybrid working pattern with full time employees being office-based three days during the working week.
We are supportive of all candidates and are committed to providing a fair assessment process. If you have any circumstances (such as neurodiversity, physical or mental impairments or a medical condition) that may affect your assessment, please inform your Talent Acquisition Partner. We will discuss possible adjustments to ensure fairness. Rest assured, disclosing this information will not impact your treatment in our process.
Please make sure you check out the Publicis Career Page which showcases our Inclusive Benefits and our EAG’s (Employee Action Groups).
