[Hiring] Vice President, Growth @Publicis Groupe Holdings B.V

Role Description

We’re looking for a VP of Growth who can help turn those strengths into wins. This person will lead our most important new business pursuits across all three agencies, partnering closely with the Head of Growth and senior leaders across strategy, creative, experience, media, data, account, and agency leadership. You’ll help us quickly get to the heart of every opportunity:

• What will it take to win?
• What is the smartest story we can tell?
• How do we create an experience the client will remember?

You are equal parts strategist, storyteller, challenger, and orchestrator. You know how to take a complicated brief, disparate ideas, and a room full of senior opinions and turn them into a clear, differentiated pitch approach. You can see both the big idea and the weakness buried on slide 47. You know when a team needs encouragement, when it needs clarity, and when the work simply needs to get better.

Reporting to the Head of Growth across Heartbeat, Saatchi & Saatchi Health, and Razorfish Health, you’ll be a senior leader on the Growth team and a trusted partner to agency leadership. You’ll also help continually improve how we pitch, bringing new ideas, outside inspiration, sharper practices, and a constant focus on making every pursuit stronger than the one before it.

Responsibilities

• Lead our most important pursuits
• Partner with the Head of Growth and agency leadership to determine the strategy for winning our highest-priority opportunities
• Synthesize briefs, client intelligence, competitive context, and agency strengths to identify the core opportunity, barriers to winning, and areas requiring greater focus
• Lead senior pitch teams through the critical early decisions: what we believe, what we will solve, how we will differentiate, what we will prove, and how we will show up
• Establish clear strategic direction while enabling strategy, creative, and other disciplines to develop their strongest thinking
• Maintain a view across the entire pursuit, ensuring the work adds up to the story and experience we set out to create
• Serve as a senior sounding board and problem solver, addressing gaps, disagreements, and weaknesses before they become pitch-day problems
• Build the story that sells the work
• Architect pitch narratives that turn complex strategies, capabilities, and ideas into clear, persuasive stories
• Identify the ideas a client should remember and ensure every section of the presentation reinforces them
• Push teams beyond answering the RFP to uncover the larger business opportunity behind the ask
• Shape presentation structures, headlines, transitions, executive framing, and key moments so the experience feels intentional
• Challenge generic claims and familiar agency language, making our strengths more specific, credible, and differentiated
• Help presenters sharpen their content, delivery, chemistry, and confidence
• Make every pitch experience better
• Bring fresh thinking to how we pitch, from early client interactions through the final presentation and follow-up
• Identify opportunities for memorable pitch experiences that amplify the strategic idea
• Help us use data, technology, AI, creativity, and Publicis capabilities to strengthen both our thinking and how we demonstrate it
• Bring inspiration from great selling inside and outside our category into our process
• Maintain a high bar for everything the client sees, hears, and experiences
• Be a trusted partner to senior leadership
• Build strong relationships across Heartbeat, Saatchi & Saatchi Health, Razorfish Health, Publicis Health, and the broader Groupe
• Operate as a strategic advisor, bringing an informed point of view and respectfully challenging the room when needed
• Navigate different leadership styles, agency cultures, and perspectives while helping teams reach clear decisions
• Know when to lead, when to facilitate, and when to let the right subject-matter expert take the floor
• Represent the Growth team with confidence and credibility in senior agency and network conversations
• Strengthen the Growth engine
• Partner with the Head of Growth to assess pitch performance and identify patterns across wins, losses, and client feedback
• Spot recurring weaknesses in our stories, capabilities, case studies, proof points, or ways of working, and develop practical solutions
• Build reusable frameworks, tools, and best practices that make teams faster and stronger without turning new business into a formula
• Ensure our strongest thinking, work, and proof are easy to find and ready to deploy
• Partner with fellow Growth team members to strengthen their work, provide strategic guidance, and create greater consistency across pursuits
• Help develop the Growth team, raising the strategic and creative bar while giving team members greater ownership and opportunities to grow

Qualifications

• 8+ years of agency experience, with significant experience in new business, growth, strategy, account leadership, or a closely related discipline within healthcare marketing
• A strong track record of leading complex, high-stakes pitches and RFPs, ideally for large Creative AOR, integrated, or multi-agency opportunities
• Deep understanding of how great agency work gets made, from insight and brand strategy through creative, media, experience, data, and execution
• Exceptional strategic storytelling skills. You can find the throughline, build the argument, sequence the story, and make complicated thinking feel simple
• The ability to quickly understand a client’s business, category, competitive dynamics, and organizational needs
• Excellent judgment about what matters and what doesn’t, including where teams should focus, where the work needs to go deeper, and what is distracting from the story
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create, edit, and elevate executive-level presentations
• The presence and confidence to challenge, advise, and align senior agency leaders while building strong, trusting relationships
• Strong creative instincts and a high bar for the strategy, content, and overall pitch experience
• Experience motivating cross-functional teams through intense, fast-moving processes
• A strong instinct for the competitive landscape, including how other agencies sell, how client expectations are changing, and where we can differentiate

Benefits

• Medical coverage
• Dental and vision coverage
• Disability insurance
• 401K
• Parental and family care leave
• Family forming assistance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Flexible time off