Business Director; tech client

Company description

Publicis Groupe, known for its world‑renowned creativity, best in class technology, digital and consulting expertise, is the world’s third largest communications group in the world. With more than 80,000 people in over 100 countries, the Groupe has four Solution hubs:
Creative with Publicis Communications, Media with Publicis Media, Digital business transformation with Publicis Sapient, and Health & Wellbeing with Publicis Health.

Adobe is one of the largest and most diversified software companies in the world. Adobe empowers everyone — from individuals and small businesses to government agencies and global brands — to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences. Headquartered in San Jose, California, and with a diverse global population of more than 31,000 employees, they achieved revenue of US $21.5 billion in fiscal year 2024.

Adobe has three major product lines:
Creative Cloud to unleash creativity, including famous apps such as Photoshop, Document Cloud to accelerate document productivity, including Adobe Acrobat, and Experience Cloud to power digital businesses, including Adobe Analytics. Adobe have been at the forefront of digital technology for over 40 years and continue to see rapid sales growth. They are an exciting, dynamic company with a respectful internal culture based on their four key values:
Genuine, Innovative, Exceptional & Involved. From a marketing perspective, Adobe are one of the most sophisticated digital marketing businesses in the world. Their activity is split between upper funnel and performance budgets, and they invest circa $180m in media in EMEA alone. This model, with a country led approach, is called the “Power of One” and gathers all the capabilities of the Groupe under one roof, putting clients at the core of the organisation.

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. They give everyone – from emerging artists to global brands – everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! They are passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen. Adobe is on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity.

We realise that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organisation, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

In 2023, Publicis Media won the Adobe business for Europe, APAC, and Japan. We have established the Adobe.pub team to act as a seamless extension of the Adobe marketing team. Adobe.pub sits within the Zenith Global team and benefits from the opportunity, infrastructure and culture of one of the best international agencies in London. The EMEA team, which has 95 members spread across London and India, covers all EMEA activity, from establishing strategy to media planning, activating media across digital channels, and reporting on campaign results.

We handle both performance and upper funnel activity and are dedicated to creating full‑funnel strategies to maximise Adobe’s digital engagement.

This is an incredible opportunity to drive growth and change on a fast‑growing, game‑changing Publicis Media client. As our client’s business continues to mature we are seeking a Performance Business Director to join our growing team and help our clients unlock the full potential of our strategic planning capabilities. You will play a pivotal role in developing a world‑class communications planning product for our team and use proactive thought leadership to help clients unlock new sources of growth.

• Overall leadership of Adobe.pub’s EMEA performance product across upper and lower funnel activity in Programmatic Media, Paid Search, and Paid Social for the Acrobat Product Group
• Manage and coach a multi‑disciplinary team, including direct line‑management responsibility for Programmatic, Search, and Social talent dedicated to the Acrobat product group
• Represent all performance work streams for Acrobat…