Digital Planning Director

Spark Foundry makes up part of a thriving global media network and are part of the Publicis Groupe, one of the world’s leading communications groups. We are globally connected with over 8,000 employees in 110 offices across 70 countries.

At Spark Foundry our vision is to Fuel Famously Effective Ideas. Famous and Effective. Not one or the other, both. That sounds nice, but to get to famously effective ideas you need some key ingredients.

You need diverse thinkers and diverse thinking. We call this Allsorts. This helps us tackle obstacles through different disciplines and perspectives. You need to thrive on the belief that great ideas are only great if they work. It’s not enough to be new, or cool, or interesting. Our solutions need to drive a business result. Everything else is vanity. You need to embrace both the art and the evidence. Right and left. Imagination and activation. Insight and technology. Big ideas, forensically measured.

All that while being a good human? Sound like you? Sound like where you’d like to be? We’d love to meet you.

Spark Foundry is looking for a Digital Planning Director to join us in Sydney to work on one of our most high-profile clients within the Groupe.

WHAT BENEFITS DOES SPARK OFFER?

Be a part of the Publicis Groupe family, one of the world’s most progressive and dynamic modern communications businesses, enjoying all the perks that come with our network offering:

• A comprehensive Wholeself program supporting Physical, Mindful and Financial wellbeing
• A creative, fun and rewarding office environment backed up by our Publicis Liberté flexibility approach “working your way, with us!”
• Access to our Global AI Platform, Marcel, connecting Publicis Groupe employees with opportunities for career mobility and collaboration across our global network
• Extensive Learning & Development opportunities, including more than 15,000 learning programs via our online learning platform Marcel Classes
• A culture of open feedback and support to reach your goals through our Career Conversations program
• A committed Diversity, Equality and Inclusion strategy driven through our Viva! Women, Égalité, enABLE and Embrace (reconciliation action plan) programs
• Work Your World program enabling employees the flexibility to work from anywhere in the world for up to 6 weeks per year
• Parental leave policy with up to 18 weeks paid primary carer leave and generous secondary carer benefits
• Access to counsellors, psychologists, and professionals through Sonder - an all-in-on digital wellbeing technology platform designed to support psychological, medical & safety needs

THE  PURPOSE OF THIS ROLE

An opportunity not to be missed if you’re looking to be a part of impactful milestone changes and incredible industry-first campaigns for one of the leading big 4 banks in Australia. This is a very well-respected account by key partners like Google, Meta, TikTok & Snapchat, which opens up endless opportunities for growth and pushing you to do your very best work!

As the Digital Planning Director, you will lead the full-funnel digital strategy and planning, be the key client contact for your portfolio and manage a highly skilled digital activation team. Your role will not only be to ensure industry best practices, lead performance strategy/delivery to targets but also ensure the growth of individual team members.

A huge part of the role will require you to lead, coach, drive and inspire your team to deliver brilliant work, ensuring the delivery of projects, growth of the team members, and best-in-market performance and brand strategy for the client.

WHAT ARE THE KEY REQUIREMENTS AND EXPERIENCE FOR THIS ROLE?

• Past experience working on performance-led client accounts who are advanced in digital maturity 
• Strong cross-channel digital planning capabilities 
• Strong attention to detail: We pride ourselves in the quality of our output. We expect the facet of attention to detail to radiate across the team.
• Ability to be Organised: to help manage time, manage thoughts and manage work.
• Analytical and Problem Solving Mindset: See the world with a problem solving lens and be comfortable handling numbers. We’re not expecting an Algebra guru but we are expecting you to be comfortable working with numbers and large sets of data.
• Data Analysis Skills: Having the ability to extract insights and tell a story using data.
• People Manager: This role will have a team directly reporting into it. Having the ability and passion to mentor and develop a high-performing team is crucial

We offer progressive flexible working options to everyone at all levels – It’s not a policy. It’s behaviour led and reinforced through our values. Mental health and wellbeing is something we take seriously – It’s championed by our own people internally and is a regular conversation. We have a lot of fun – Even in this virtual world, we are constantly looking at reinventing how we connect with each other.

Spark Foundry, as a part of Publicis Groupe believes that to deliver the best solutions to our clients, our people need to reflect the diverse communities in which our clients operate. We value diversity and the skills, knowledge and experience that difference brings to our culture and solutions. We encourage applications from Indigenous Australians, people with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, mature age workers, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people.

If you have access needs and encounter any accessibility barriers, please let us know how we can adjust and support you to freely participate equitably in our recruitment and selection process.