Insights Manager, Publicis Sport & Entertainment

Company description Australia/New Zealand CSR Achievement of the Year – Publicis Groupe ANZ – Gold 2025 Asia-Pacific Best Place to Work (Network) – Publicis Groupe APAC - Winner 2025, 2024 Australian Business Awards - Employer of Choice 2024, 2023, 2022 & 2021 HR Awards Excellence Awardee - Employer of Choice 2022 AWEI Silver Accreditation 2025 Certified family friendly workplace Welcome to Publicis Groupe ANZ. Here you will get an inside look at life within our network, including the brilliant people working across our agency brands. Publicis Groupe is a world leader in marketing communication and digital business transformation, driven through the alchemy of data, creativity, media, and technology. Our connected platform of companies and capabilities is more than an operational framework. It’s a cultural model we've built to unite our people in a collaborative way of thinking and working. Publicis Groupe offers its clients seamless access to the expertise of its 110,000+ talents across 100 countries globally. In Australia, our powerhouse of marketing capabilities stretches across creative agencies Saatchi & Saatchi, Leo Burnett, Publicis Worldwide, media agencies Starcom, Zenith, Spark Foundry, Razorfish, Digitas, Epsilon, Arc, Prodigious, PMX, PR Herd MSL. We also have Publicis Sapient driving digital business transformation for our clients. Overview Overview: Publicis Sport & Entertainment (PS&E) connects brands to fans by transforming cultural moments into impactful partnerships. PS&E delivers integrated solutions that engage audiences through powerful, insight-led experiences, helping brands become more relevant by integrating into culture and communities. We believe the most powerful work lives at the convergence of culture, creativity, and commercial impact. By uniting capabilities across strategic consulting, brand partnerships, content innovation, and cultural marketing, PS &E drives meaningful engagement across sport and entertainment. Job Description: The Insights Manager will play a key role in the delivery of PS&E's measurement and reporting programme, turning complex data into clear, actionable insights that help clients understand value, performance, and opportunities across their sponsor Publicis Sport & Entertainment (PS&E) is looking for an Insights Manager to join our team on a 6-month contract. This role sits at the intersection of data and insight, product, and project management within the sports sponsorship sector. You'll play a hands-on role in the delivery of our measurement and reporting programme, spanning sport and entertainment exposure measurement and valuation, brand tracking, and landscape research, across a growing portfolio of sponsorship clients. With support from senior leadership, you'll be responsible for delivering high-quality work, managing day-to-day tasks, and ensuring our clients receive best-in-class reporting and strategic recommendations. This is a great opportunity for a curious individual with a passion for sport, a solid foundation in data and client service, and a desire to deepen their experience across project management, sponsorship measurement, and sports marketing. Core Responsibilities: Project Management & Delivery Manage end-to-end delivery of sponsorship measurement projects against agreed timelines and KPIs. Develop and maintain detailed project plans, ways-of-working documents, and polished client-facing materials. Coordinate cross-functional workflows across internal agency teams, external vendors, and technology partners — including running regular WIPs, briefing, QA, and issue resolution. Ensure financial accuracy across budget management and revenue forecasting. Insights & Reporting Manage, interpret, and analyse data, including audience measurement, media exposure, valuation outputs and survey results. Validate data and manage ongoing reporting delivery, including periodic in-depth reports. Identify patterns and opportunities within data, creating meaningful and actionable insights that improve and optimise sponsorships. Contribute to insight summaries, narrative development, and presentation preparation for stakeholders. Product Development & Innovation Support implementation & evolution of PS&E's measurement product vision, contributing to the design and delivery of market-leading solutions Help identify opportunities to incorporate measurement solutions into new and existing client engagements. Identify and recommend improvements to product processes, reporting workflows, and delivery frameworks to enhance quality, efficiency, and scalability. Contribute to ad hoc analytical projects that support PS&E's growth and product roadmap Client Service Support the day-to-day management of select sponsorship clients, working directly with client team members, executing deliverables, and providing strategic recommendations to both internal and external stakeholders. Manage internal and external WIPs, meeting cadences, and follow-ups across the client portfolio. Support approvals processes, provide strategic overlay on reporting outputs, and manage escalations as needed. Maintain strong day-to-day client relationships and proactively resolve issues Experience: 3–5 years' experience in a data delivery, analytics, project management, or client service role within a client-facing environment — ideally within a media agency, sports agency, or sport research and analytics business. Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and deadlines simultaneously. Comfortable working with data — you can QA, validate, and interpret data sets with accuracy and attention to detail. Confident communicator who can translate complex data into clear, client-ready outputs that meet agency-quality standards. Proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets; experience with data platforms or dashboards is a plus. A genuine interest in sport, sponsorship, and the media landscape. Collaborative mindset — comfortable working across teams, agencies, and external partners. Additional information Publicis Groupe benefits: Be a part of the Publicis Groupe family, recent winner of the Employer of Choice Awards and one of the world's most progressive and dynamic modern communications businesses. You can learn more about us at www.publicisgroupeanz.com. Enjoy all the perks that come with our network offering: A comprehensive Wholeself program supporting physical, mindful, and financial wellbeing. A creative, lively, and rewarding office environment where people love working with each other, supported by our Publicis Liberté flexibility approach — "working your way with us." Access to our Global AI Platform Marcel, connecting Publicis Groupe employees with opportunities for career mobility and collaboration across our global network. Extensive Learning & Development opportunities including more than 15,000 learning programs via our online learning platform, Marcel Classes. A culture of open feedback and support to reach your goals through our Career Conversations program. A committed Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion strategy driven through our Viva Women, Égalité, enABLE, EmbRACE, and Écologique committees. Leave benefits including Birthday Leave, Flexible Public Holidays, and an additional 5 days of leave after 2 years of service. Work Your World program enabling employees the flexibility to work from anywhere in the world for up to 6 weeks per year. Parental leave policy with up to 18 weeks based on tenure, paid primary carer leave, secondary carer swap, and Cub Care leave. Access to counsellors, psychologists, and professionals through Sonder, an all-in-one digital wellbeing technology platform designed to support psychological, medical & safety needs. A workplace that stands together to provide a more open, supportive, and recovery-forward culture for all employees with life-threatening illnesses. Read more about our Working With Cancer Pledge: https://workingwithcancerpledge.com/ Proud partners of Diversity Council Australia, Pride in Diversity, Family Friendly Workplaces, Supply Nation, and the Australian Disability Network. If you don't tick every box in this ad, please don't rule yourself out. Research suggests that women and other people in underrepresented groups tend to only apply if they meet every requirement. We focus on hiring people who share our values of inclusion, collaboration, adaptability, fearlessness, and integrity rather than ticking boxes — so if this role resonates with you, please apply. Diversity. Inclusion. Equity. More than just words; these are part of our DNA. At Publicis Groupe, we are committed to the inclusion and recognition of all people regardless of race, age, culture, ability, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, and religious affiliation. We believe that to deliver the best solutions to our clients, our people need to reflect the diverse communities in which our clients operate. We value diversity and the skills, knowledge, and experience that difference brings to our culture and solutions. Uniqueness is powerful; without it, we wouldn't be where we are today. So be you — we like it that way. 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