People & Culture Manager

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, Publicis Worldwide), media agencies (Starcom, Zenith, Spark Foundry, Performics, Atomic 212), Razorfish, Digitas, Epsilon, Arc, Prodigious, PXP, PMX, and PR (Herd MSL). We also have Publicis Sapient driving digital business transformation for our clients.

Overview

About the role

Join a high-performing, award-winning People & Culture team where you'll play a key role in shaping employee experiences across the full lifecycle. Supporting dedicated agencies within the Groupe, you'll partner with leaders to deliver practical, commercially focused people solutions, while contributing to broader P&C strategy and projects across the business.

This is a true generalist role with impact: from coaching leaders and navigating ER matters to driving engagement, talent, and culture initiatives.

What you'll do

Partner with leaders

• Coach and guide managers to build high-performing teams
• Provide expert advice on performance, ER, engagement, and reward
• Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders

Drive people strategy

• Implement agency-level people initiatives (e.g. retention, performance, L&D, DE&I)
• Contribute insights and support wider group P&C projects
• Translate business needs into practical people solutions

Own employee lifecycle delivery

• Lead performance management, grievances, and investigations
• Support talent mapping and succession planning
• Partner on recruitment decisions and workforce planning
• Oversee onboarding, offboarding, and employee experience moments

Enhance culture & engagement

• Lead engagement initiatives and action planning from survey insights
• Drive inclusion and culture programs
• Contribute to recognition and employee experience initiatives

Support core P&C programs

• Remuneration cycles and benchmarking
• Learning & development delivery and uptake
• Visa and immigration processes
• Compliance, policy, and people data integrity

What you bring

• ~4+ years in People & Culture, including advisory experience in a complex or matrix environment
• Strong working knowledge of Australian employment law (Fair Work Act, NES)
• Proven ability to build credibility with senior stakeholders
• Experience across the full employee lifecycle
• High level of judgement, critical thinking, and discretion
• Adaptability and comfort working in a fast-paced, evolving environment
• Strong communication skills and a proactive, solutions-focused mindset

Why join us?

• Be part of a collaborative, high-impact P&C function
• Work across diverse agencies and stakeholders
• Get exposure to strategic projects and enterprise-wide initiatives
• Partner with Centres of Excellence across L&D, DE&I, Talent, and more

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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 Liberte 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, Egalite, enABLE, EmbRACE, and Ecologique 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.

We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments for people with disability or those that require additional support throughout the application process. If you need any assistance or adjustments, please contact us via [email protected]; your personal information will be kept confidential.