Channel Investment & Implementation Lead

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**Overview** This role at Publicis Groupe is for a Channel Investment & Implementation Lead. The primary purpose of this position is to own the channel craft function across various media types including AV, OOH, audio, social, search, programmatic, performance, retail media, commerce, and influencer. The Lead is responsible for ensuring specialists produce technically strong, commercially sound, measurable, and executable plans. The role focuses on owning recommendation quality, implementation standards, and delivery validation, rather than invoice loading or billing administration. **What you will do** The key responsibilities and scope of this role include: * Leading the channel implementation planning function. * Owning the channel craft function across AV, OOH, audio, social, search, programmatic, performance, retail media, commerce and influencer. * Ensuring specialists produce technically strong, commercially sound, measurable and executable plans. * Owning recommendation quality, implementation standards and delivery validation. * Managing channel planning standards. * Managing specialist capability. * Performing channel plan quality assurance (QA). * Governing delivery validation. * Making recommendations for make goods, credits, or disputes. * Ensuring the quality of channel learning and Post Campaign Analysis (PCA). * Collaborating with Corporate Investment on marketplace activities. * Ensuring specialists receive clear briefs from Journey Planning. * Ensuring every channel plan includes rationale, recommendation, cost logic, KPI forecast, and delivery assumptions. * Ensuring plans are executable, measurable, and aligned to the integrated strategy. * Ensuring delivery actualisation is completed before billing approval. * Ensuring under-delivery is disputed, credited, made good, or escalated. * Ensuring channel learnings feed future planning. * Maintaining channel planning standards across teams. * Approving channel planning standards. * Approving the quality of vertical plans. * Approving delivery validation requirements. * Approving, holding, disputing, crediting, or making good delivery. * Approving channel specialist capability standards. **Requirements (from the original advert)** * 8+ years managing channel standards, investment quality and delivery governance. * Strong grasp of channels and buying environments (Channel expertise). * Ability to evaluate plans, forecasts and delivery assumptions (Technical planning). * Understanding of cost, rate and delivery implications (Commercial judgment). * Ability to enforce standards and handoffs (Governance). * Ability to challenge media owner / platform delivery (Supplier understanding). * Ability to manage specialists and develop capability (Team leadership). * Ability to identify under-delivery and recommend action (Delivery validation). **Who should apply** An ideal candidate for this role is an experienced professional with a strong background in managing channel standards, investment quality, and delivery governance for various media channels. They should possess expertise in technical planning, commercial judgment, governance, supplier understanding, team leadership, and delivery validation. The role is suited for individuals focused on implementation planning and quality assurance, rather than defining original growth strategies, owning client relationships, or administrative billing tasks. **Deadline** Not specified **Reference** Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/channel-investment-implementation-lead-publicis-groupe Source: myjobmag

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