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Overview

• We’re looking for a Business Unit Director who’ll lead the troops in driving this growth. It’s no small task, but it’s a fun and rewarding one. If you’re up for it, read on. 

What you’ll do: 

• You’ll have a deep understanding of the digital marketing world and the client relationship, manage resource allocation profitably, and effectively lead teams to create, implement and measure strategic deliverables.

Responsibilities

Day to day, your role includes: 

• Client lead and support on a large portfolio of clients  
• Eloquently articulating our views on digital business philosophies, keeping clients up to date on industry context 
• Taking on an influential role in supporting new business initiatives and leveraging client relationships in the development of business growth 
• Maintaining a strong understanding of changes in the client’s industry and how customer needs are adapting, and developing relevant case studies on client businesses 
• Deliver strategic client presentations and providing recommendations that are concise, insightful and on point 
• Partnering with clients and capability partners to build active brands 
• Owning the financials for clients, including forecasts, budgets and investments – ensuring that key financial responsibilities are mutually understood and agreed upon 
• Developing team members through training and identifying areas for growth – you’ll coach them to close talent gaps and motivate them to develop skills 
• Driving the culture of Digitas and managing capabilities to adapt to changing environments and needs 
• Overseeing deliverables of extended internal team to ensure client needs are met 
• Incorporating Delivery Management group (DM) on projects when complexity of project calls for their need 
• Willingness to travel as needed – you’re open to new places, new faces and new ideas

Qualifications

We’re looking for a talented Business Unit Director with impressive work experience, which typically includes: 

• A demonstrated powerful passion for marketing and proven success in bringing the best work to life 
• Four years of education, 6-8yrs years of experience (ideally at a creative ATL agency), including eight years of client leadership experience in integrated marketing or a digital scope 
• A refined understanding of how marketing, creative, planning, media, technology and analytics integrate 
• Superior analytical skills and strategic thinking 
• Superb communication, presentation, and training skills – you’re articulate, concise, engaging and effective 
• An impressive track record of project management and performance management skills – you’re known for your ability to coach and develop talent, inspire and drive change, and bring varied groups together to collaborate 
• CRM/CVM experience is an added advantage 
• Digital Commerce working experience and understanding is essential 

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Overview

• We are looking for a Hybrid Media Strategist who can seamlessly operate across brand and performance media. This role requires a thinker-doer who understands full-funnel strategy, translates business objectives into integrated media solutions, and optimizes for both brand growth and measurable ROI.
• You will sit at the intersection of strategy, data, digital activation, and client leadership -developing holistic media plans that connect paid, owned, and earned ecosystems.

Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

• Develop full-funnel, integrated media strategies aligned to client business objectives.
• Translate brand, consumer, and commercial insights into actionable channel plans.
• Lead annual media strategy, quarterly reviews, and campaign frameworks.
• Identify growth opportunities across upper- and lower-funnel tactics.

Hybrid Planning & Activation

• Plan and oversee both brand channels (TV, radio, OOH, print) and performance channels (search, social, programmatic, ecommerce).
• Ensure seamless integration between traditional and digital touchpoints.
• Collaborate with performance, programmatic, and data teams to drive measurable impact.
• Support advanced targeting and audience strategy leveraging Groupe data capabilities.

Data & Performance

• Define KPIs across awareness, consideration, and conversion.
• Monitor campaign performance and lead optimization conversations.
• Translate analytics into clear client-ready insights and recommendations.
• Drive test-and-learn frameworks to improve efficiency and effectiveness.

Client Leadership

• Act as day-to-day strategic lead on assigned accounts.
• Present integrated strategies with clarity and confidence.
• Build strong client relationships grounded in trust and performance.
• Proactively bring innovation, trends, and media opportunities to clients.

Collaboration

• Work cross-functionally with investment, performance, strategy, creative, and commerce teams.
• Partner with Groupe specialists to unlock connected identity, data, and technology solutions.
• Contribute to agency thought leadership and internal capability development.

Qualifications

• 4–8 years’ experience in media strategy and planning.
• Strong understanding of both traditional and digital ecosystems.
• Experience with full-funnel campaign planning and measurement.
• Working knowledge of key platforms (Telmar, Wizzad, Meta, Google, programmatic DSPs, ad servers, analytics tools).
• Strong analytical and storytelling skills.
• Commercially savvy with an ROI mindset.
• Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.

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• We’re looking for a junior to mid‑weight Multimedia Designer with strong executional skills and a solid foundation in digital design. 
• The Multimedia Designer will be responsible for the creation and rollout of high‑quality multimedia design work across social and digital platforms, with a strong emphasis on 2D animation and digital/social best practice.
• This is an execution‑focused role suited to a junior or mid‑weight designer who enjoys bringing approved ideas to life through strong craft and attention to detail. Working from established creative direction and brand guidelines, the Multimedia Designer will build, adapt, and optimise assets to ensure they are platform‑ready, on‑brand, and delivered to a high standard.
• The role involves hands‑on design and animation work, supporting campaign rollouts through accurate, efficient execution across multiple formats. You’ll collaborate closely with the creative and account teams, contributing to fast‑paced digital and social campaigns while continuing to develop your multimedia and technical skills.

Responsibilities

• Design social media and digitally led creative, utilizing animation and digital design best practices with a good technical understanding for outputting files in the correct format, size (data and dimensions) with visual accuracy.
• Be able to work methodically and according to brief and brand specification.
• Be able break down brief requirements and timeously flag any potential issues that may arise.
• Create presentation decks to showcase work.
• Be able to collect and file artwork work correctly for archiving and handovers.
• Be able to accurately capture time against completed briefs.

Business Skills:

• Be well versed in the Adobe Creative Suite software (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, After Effects).
• Superb inter-personal skills and a passion for creating high quality content.
• Strong understanding of animation and digital design practices.
• Must be well versed in various social media platforms and the changing landscape.
• Passion for detail and implementing CI guidelines, with the ability and agility to switch between multiple brands.
• Ability to execute quickly and effectively; especially in response to trending topics.
• Strong time management and self-management skills.
• Ability to work well as part of a team.
• Apple Mac literate.

Qualifications

Experience:

• The candidate must have a minimum of 4 years digital design experience. The following attributes are also essential:
• Tertiary Graphic/Art/Advertising/Design qualification.
• Proven experience in social and digital design on large scale multinational brands, lifestyle brands and/or FMCG brands.
• Have an existing up to date online portfolio or showreel to demonstrate abilities.

Additional information

Advantageous Skills:

• Basic audio editing Adobe Audition.
• Understanding of print and print production processes.
• Previous experience an Advertising Agency

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Overview

• As a Mid-level creative you will work with our passionate, multi-talented studio delivering on exceptional, integrated concepts and designs to exceed client briefs and expectations.  
• A Mid-level Digital Designer can expect to be craft-led and platform neutral conceptual thinkers, in particular having an understanding of all major social platforms as well as being comfortable executing work on these platforms as well as any digital format. Should a desire to transform companies by creating beautiful, intuitive, and human-centred products and experiences. 
• The successful candidate will be tuned into all aspects of South African popular culture and the platforms and media it plays in, as well as have a strong point of view on what it takes to win in this space.  

Responsibilities

Duties include, but not limited to: 
 
What you’ll do everyday  

Responsibilities 

• Be up to date with digital platforms 
• Manage your creative process on projects  
• Work with other disciplines (Strategists, Developers, Media, Accounts, etc.)  
• Be a champion for digital innovation on every project you touch  
• Participate in pitches for new business  
• Define or apply the aesthetic of overall campaigns  
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously  
• Generate ideas and sell them into clients or other members of the team  
• Mock up creative ideas  
• Design across multiple channels  
• Consistently produce creative elements against a deliverables list  

OPERATIONAL KPI’S 

• Ability of design work (Show minimum of 4 examples) 
• Must show an understanding of various programmes 

Working knowledge of these tools 

• Illustrator  
• Photoshop 
• Indesign 
• After Effects (Advantageous) 
• KeyNote / PowerPoint 
• InVision (UI / UX)<not in use by Machine, remove when posting> 
• Spark AR Studio 
• AdobeXD (UI/UX))<not in use by Machine, remove when posting> 
• Figma 
• Google Web Designer & DV360 (Advantageous) 
• Facebook Creative Hub (Advantageous) 
• 3D Animation & Production (Advantageous) 

BUSINESS KPI’s 

• Must be able to work on one sizable and two small size project at any one time.  
• Have the ability to attend every review on a project with new 3 ideas / designs.

Qualifications

• Great time management 
• Must have a minimum of 3-4 years’ experience 
• Ability to work under pressure & meet tight deadlines  
• Adopt problem solving skills  
• Strong communication skills with ability to provide rationales for creative choices made  
• Adequate presentation skills  
• Working knowledge of existing and emerging technologies & platforms  
• A strong understanding of best practice interaction and visual design principles  
• Able to work with team members 
   

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Overview

• We are looking for a Hybrid Media Planner who can work across both ATL and performance media channels. This role is ideal for someone who understands how upper-funnel awareness and lower-funnel conversion work together to deliver business growth.
• You will support strategy development, build integrated media plans, manage campaign implementation, and ensure performance is tracked and optimized across channels.

Responsibilities

Integrated Media Planning

• Develop cross-channel media plans aligned to campaign objectives and budgets.
• Support the creation of full-funnel plans across traditional and digital media.
• Work closely with strategists to translate insights into channel execution plans.
• Ensure brand and performance elements work cohesively.

Channel Management

• Plan across TV, radio, OOH, print, search, social, programmatic, and ecommerce platforms.
• Prepare flowcharts, media schedules, and budget allocations.
• Coordinate with investment and digital teams to ensure smooth campaign activation.
• Monitor campaign delivery and pacing.

Performance & Optimization

• Track campaign performance against KPIs.
• Support weekly/monthly reporting and post-campaign analysis.
• Identify optimization opportunities in collaboration with performance teams.
• Contribute to test-and-learn initiatives.

Client & Stakeholder Support

• Support client presentations with data, insights, and rationale.
• Maintain strong relationships with media partners and internal teams.
• Ensure timelines, deliverables, and financial accuracy are maintained.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years’ experience in media planning (traditional and/or digital).
• Understanding of full-funnel media principles.
• Exposure to ATL and digital platforms (Telmar, Meta, Google, programmatic, analytics tools).
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Detail-oriented with strong organisational ability.
• Good commercial understanding and budget management skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

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Overview

• As an Ad Ops Specialist, you will efficiently manage digital campaign trafficking, monitoring delivery to see that tags are recoding data, and schedule automated reports. This includes collaboration with publishers, creative agencies, internal agencies & Paid Media Team. You will need to create CM360 floodlights tags where required and apply brand safety and viewability where applicable.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

• Technical coordination of trafficking digital campaigns as well as monitoring and schedule automated campaign reports.
• Provide a customer centric services through managing the processes of developing and maintaining campaign tracking framework and material trafficking/setup.
• Trafficking management of third party through the Agencies.
• Monitoring ongoing campaigns, anomaly detection, and analysis of a range of performance indicators.
• Campaign reporting where required.
• Setting up campaign post-site tracking.
• Monitoring and managing ad serving costs where required.
• Being able to create floodlight tags.
• Manage brand safety and viewability process.
• Follow Taxonomy/Naming conventions as best practise.
• Follow Publicis workflow tool process.
• Troubleshooting any campaign management, trafficking, and reporting related issues.
• Be able to follow Global best practices for Global clients working with TAAG Hubs

Qualifications

Knowledge/Skills:

• Knowledge and experience of digital ad servers (trafficking and reporting), such as Sizmek, DoubleClick Campaign Manager, Adform, etc.
• Knowledge and experience of brand safety and viewability tools such as DoubleVerify, IAS, Moat, etc.
• Ability to prioritize, multi-task, and work under pressure to meet deadlines.
• Knowledge of GTM
• Ability to create tracking codes for UTM/Adobe/Cardinal
• Ability to analyse data and provide insightful recommendations from a Trafficking platform perspective.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).
• Detail-oriented with exceptional critical thinking and problem-solving abilities.
• Be collaborative, share knowledge and being willing to learn other specialisms to become Hybrid as that creates fluidity, flexibility & agility.

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Overview

• Key responsibilities include onboarding/offboarding Global & Local Clients, Onboarding/offboarding users across all Digital Platforms, learning new Digital Tools & Technology to give training to new users & be able to support, Strong Technical/Trouble Shooting Capabilities, delivery day-to-day administrative service/general inquiries to the Agencies, Internal Teams & Clients & demonstrate strong proactiveness in finding solutions & working collaboratively.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

• Establish and maintain effective communication and collaborative relationships among clients, agencies, creative partners, and internal specialist teams.
• Oversee onboarding and offboarding processes for staff across all digital platforms within media and agency environments.
• Administer all operational aspects of the Publicis Workflow Tool, including:
• Campaign vetting
• User assignment
• Platform training
• Troubleshooting platform issues
• Coordinating platform enhancement workshops with the Technical Lead
• Respond to queries from clients, agencies, creative partners, and internal specialists promptly and efficiently, or refer them to the appropriate contacts as necessary.
• Participate in relevant meetings to ensure alignment and progress on key initiatives.
• Manage budget allocations within digital platforms as required (e.g., META, Twitter, DV360, Google Ads, TikTok).
• Coordinate client onboarding and offboarding activities in collaboration with global and local teams.
• Distribute tracking pixels and accompanying implementation guides (META, Twitter, DV360, Google Ads, TikTok, etc.) to relevant stakeholders prior to campaign launches.
• Create Floodlights, provide internal training, and support troubleshooting efforts in the event of technical issues.
• Proactively identify and resolve recurring challenges, offering innovative solutions and demonstrating a commitment to continuous improvement.
• Facilitate integration and testing of lead generation forms within client CRM systems.
• Supervise security protocols across all systems and platforms (META, Twitter, DV360, Google Ads, TikTok, etc.), including mapping and verification of brand safety and viewability standards (IAS & DoubleVerify).
• Develop taxonomy frameworks for user training and support.
• Demonstrate advanced technical proficiency across all major digital platforms
• Remain current with emerging tools and technologies, ensuring timely adoption, staff training, and effective implementation within the business.

Qualifications

Experience / Knowledge / Skills:

• Demonstrated expertise with digital ad servers (including trafficking and reporting) such as Sizmek, DoubleClick Campaign Manager, Adform, and others.
• Familiarity with brand safety and viewability tools, including DoubleVerify, IAS, Moat, and similar platforms.
• Strong ability to prioritize tasks effectively, manage multiple responsibilities simultaneously, and work efficiently under pressure to meet tight deadlines.
• Experience with Google Tag Manager (GTM).
• Capability to create tracking codes for UTM, Adobe, and Cardinal platforms.
• Meticulous attention to detail, with outstanding critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.