Publicis Media GmbH | Germany | 40xxx Düsseldorf | Permanent position | Full time / Home office | Published since: 15.07.2026 on stepstone.de
Group Head Media Investment Intelligence (m/f/d)
Publicis Media is the world's second largest media agency network and part of the French communications group Publicis Groupe. As a global holding company, Publicis Media lives through its global agency brands Zenith, Starcom and Spark Foundry, which manage and continuously develop customer business in strategic communication consulting in over 100 countries. In addition, Publicis Media’s key specialist teams support the clients of the agencies in the fields: Data and Technology, Analytics and Insights, Research, Content, Performance, Buying and Business Development.
In this position, you have the professional, strategic and personal responsibility for investment intelligence with a focus on the analysis and control of agencies, media investments, repentance and performance. You evaluate complex investment and marketer structures, identify opportunities and risks and make concrete recommendations to optimize investment, pricing strategies and commercial performance. You act as a strategic business partner for investment, trading, controlling, product and services and are responsible for the further development of the intelligence and control agenda. As a manager, you control your team along key business goals and make sure that economic relationships, deal structures and repentance and performance effects are analyzed transparently and translated into concrete action recommendations. .
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Your tasks • Your profile • What we offer
Media Investment & Intelligence Analysis and Evaluation of Agency Dealers, Marketer Agreements and Media Investments in Revenue, Profitability and Performance Identification of opportunities, risks and optimization potentials within investment, pricing and repentance structures Development of forecasts, scenario analyses and action recommendations to support strategic investment decisions Sparring partners for investment, trading and negotiation teams in the economic evaluation of complex dealer and marketer structures Revenue & Performance Responsibility for Revenue, Investment and Profitability Analysis including Performance Tracking and Control Logics Development and Evaluation of Business Cases, Forecasts and Commercial Basis deriving strategic measures to increase revenue, margin and efficiency Assessment of new business, product and monetization models from an economic perspective Intelligence & Business Partnering Responsibility for tax-relevant KPIs, management reports and decision bases Translation of complex data and business models in understandable recommendations for management and disciplines Ensuring consistent KPI definitions, governance standards and analytical quality Close cooperation with Investment, Trading, Controlling, Product, Data and Tech Leadership and Transformation Discipline and professional leadership as well as further development of the team Control of cross-departmental projects with high management relevance Building efficient processes, standards and structures in the field of investment intelligence Moderation of management reviews and strategic decision formats
Successfully completed studies in BWL, Finance, Controlling, Business Informatics, Mathematics or Similar Multiannual professional experience in investment intelligence, investment management or trading in a media agency, on the marketer side or in the platform environment Ideally experience in the programmatic environment or AdTech area
Funded understanding of agency deals, marketer agreements, pricing, repentance and profitability logics and their economic impact Experience in cooperation with investment, trading or negotiation teams Very good understanding of numbers, forecasts, scenario analyses and data-based decision-making High analytical, strategic and economic competence Very good Excel knowledge as well as a good understanding of modern BI and reporting solutions (e.g. Power BI, Tableau) Personal / Leadership Multiannual leadership experience with disciplinary responsibility Impressed ability to prepare complex issues in a way that is addressable and to present them safely at management level Strong entrepreneurial thinking with clear result and impact orientation High levels of decision-making, enforcement and sense of responsibility Experience in managing different stakeholders and successful cooperation in complex organisational structures Inspired leadership style with focus on development, performance and cooperation
Learn & grow Further development with digital learning platform Individual career perspectives, structured further development Extensive national and international development programmes Open feedback culture with structured performance management Mentoring programme Work Your World Worldwide work possible Up to 6 weeks per year Flexible work Hybrid working model Work at all our Publicis Media locations: Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg and Munich Flexible working hours The “Notfallmamas” - Occupied children (not applicable) Germany Ticket and BusinessBike Feel Well Overtime compensation 30 days holiday and other special holidays Agency Sports with Urban Sports Club Mental Health Program and Working with Cancer Policy Responsibility Diversity, equity & inclusion initiatives Sustainability Squad Social Projects Your start Welcome Week Buddy Program Intensive onboarding
We appreciate diversity and are excited to learn how your previous experience could enrich our team. .
Location
![]() | Publicis Media GmbH | |
| 40211 Düsseldorf | ||
| Germany |
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