Job Description

Company Description

Publicis Sapient is creating our own lane in the digital world, leveraging our consulting expertise and digital capabilities, we are now leading the way as a partner of choice for digital transformation.

Within Publicis Sapient’s Consumer Packaged Goods business, we are quite literally on the front line of the biggest issues facing the largest consumer brands today. Most of these firms face unique challenges from supply chain management, lower profit margins, changing technologies, competing start-ups and they are embarking on large scale transformation programmes to stay competitive. Driving transformation and leading change within these industries requires big thinkers who bring insight, knowledge, technical acumen and passion for innovation. What we offer is the opportunity to join a recognized leader in developing and delivering ground-breaking solutions for today’s dynamic global marketplace and an award-winning culture that fosters growth and leadership.

Job Description

As a Publicis Sapient Client Executive, you will be a true business partner with a strategic understanding of our clients’ brands, their business, their customers and what’s coming next in their industry.

You will feel at home on client sites, getting to know them personally and frequently interacting with key stakeholders to understand any issues and be able to turn them into tangible briefs and to proactively come back and truly inspire them. You are an expert in DBT and have demonstrable and extensive experience in both large scale, complex problems and CPG as an industry.

Key Responsibilities

• You’ll be a true CPG luminary- driving strategic direction for clients and monitoring results and profitability.
• Have an enterprising approach to relationship management, how can you grow CPG for us and unlock new and emerging client opportunities?
• You’ll be a champion for developing pioneering solutions in an innovative and ever evolving technical landscape.
• You’ll be responsible for managing multiple lines of business within a single client relationship or managing multiple clients through the ability to understand client and business objectives and develop high-level strategic plans.
• You will be an exceptional leader, acting as a role model for both clients and colleagues alike and you’ll be passionate about developing those around you.
• You’ll be comfortable and competent managing internal resource allocation and costs towards profitability will also be part of your responsibility.
• You’ll be a self-starting, out-of-the-box thinker driven by the relentless pursuit of excellence to deliver brilliant services for our clients.

Qualifications

• To be a valued member of client services you need two key qualities. You must be talented, and you must be collaborative. Your ambition, curiosity, chemistry, and personality are key elements for success
• Excellent knowledge of digital, business transformation, and platform development within the CPG/FMCG/ Consumer Electronics sector
• Have extensive experience gained in a business or strategy consulting, or an IT environment (focused within the CPG sector) note- this role is not suited to those from an advertising/digital media background.
• Experience in both selling and delivering complex technical solutions relevant to the sector
• Proven track record in developing client relationships at C-level, networks at both local and national level within the CPG industry.
• A visionary “thought leader”, comfortable speaking from a position of knowledge with clients and industry leaders.
• Managing a portfolio size of £10m (minimum) plus with demonstrable previous experience of doing so.
• Those prerequisite skills that go hand in hand with being a senior leader in a global business; exceptional budget management, exemplary presentation skills, excellent written and verbal communication- a true leader.

Additional Information

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers.  We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.