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BRAND: Spark Foundry
Job Function: Client Management
Location: London, United Kingdom
Experience Level: Senior Management
Workplace Type: Hybrid

Company description

As Global Managing Partner, you will set the vision, strategy, and operating model for key pharma accounts. You will be a senior client leader, trusted advisor, and internal connector - ensuring best-in-class, compliant, and outcome-driven media solutions across markets.

You will work closely with the specialist functions in the wider pharma media team and with the broader Publicis' Power of One capabilities to unlock growth, innovation, and impact. Driving organic growth and developing new business will be a focus.

The Global Managing Partner will report to the EVP, Head of International Pharma and sit on the leadership team within the Publicis Health Media International Team.

Overview

These are the key tent poles in the role that you will need to be across:

• Global Client Leadership
• Media Strategy & Delivery Excellence
• Leadership & Team Management
• Power of One & Innovation
• Commercial Growth & New Business

Responsibilities

You are a senior, credible media leader with experience operating at global and executive level.

This role will call on your ability to:

• Simplify complexity and tell compelling stories through data and insight
• Be commercially astute, consultative, and growth-oriented
• Be a confident communicator with gravitas
• Be comfortable leading in matrixed, global, and highly regulated environments
• Have a passion for innovation, performance marketing, and the evolving role of media in healthcare

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading global media accounts for large, complex clients
• Strong background in media strategy, performance marketing, and analytics across digital and offline channels
• Deep understanding of platforms such as programmatic, paid social, search, and emerging media
• HCP media platform knowledge a bonus
• Strong commercial, operational, and financial leadership experience
• Healthcare or pharma experience strongly preferred (or equivalent regulated-industry expertise)

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Additional information

Spark Foundry offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees. Full details are shared when you join, but highlights include core benefits such as Pension, Life Assurance, and Private Medical cover, alongside enhanced policies like Reflection Days and Shared Parental Leave. You'll also have access to a range of additional initiatives, including:

Please check out the Publicis Career Page which showcases our Inclusive Benefits and our EAG's (Employee Action Groups).

Publicis Groupe works primarily from the office or our clients' office four days per week.

At Spark Foundry , we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion or belief, disability, age, citizenship, relationship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected characteristic.

We are committed to providing a fair, accessible, and inclusive recruitment process. If you have any access needs - for example, related to disability, neurodivergence, or a health condition - please let us know. We'll work with you to ensure the process works for you. Sharing this information will never impact your application.

Guided by our values, we listen with empathy, uplift each other, take responsibility, and embrace change - building a culture where everyone feels seen, respected, and genuinely included.