Regional Senior Performance Manager

Company Description

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Publicis Groupe is the third largest communications group in the world. Founded in Paris in 1926, we are present in more than 100 countries as leaders in marketing, communication, and digital business transformation. Two of its biggest solution hubs in Singapore - Publicis Communications and Publicis Media & Digital.

 

Publicis Communications, the creative communications hub of the Publicis Groupe, is a collective of the most passionate, purposeful, and progressive creative agencies in Singapore. They are Publicis Worldwide, Leo Burnett, Saatchi & Saatchi, Prodigious, and MSL.

 

Publicis Media & Digital, which is comprised of global media agency brands Starcom, Zenith, Spark Foundry, and Performics, is powered by digital-first, data-driven global practices that together, help our clients navigate the modern media landscape.

 

Our two other solution hubs, Publicis Sapient and Publicis Commerce, empower businesses to embrace digital transformation and equip them with a total commerce experience.

Job Description

Our client is accelerating its digital transformation and ecommerce growth agenda across Southeast Asia and Oceania (SEAO). As part of regional team, we are looking for a Senior Manager, Search & Performance Excellence to lead regional search strategy, governance, and capability development across the region.

 

This role will serve as the regional Center of Excellence (COE), partnering closely with regional hub team, local market teams, and agency specialists to drive search-led business growth, performance excellence, and innovation.

 

The ideal candidate combines strong hands-on search expertise with the ability to influence stakeholders, challenge existing approaches, and elevate market capabilities across multiple countries.

 

While Search will be a core focus of the role, this is also an opportunity to help shape the future of client's performance marketing ecosystem across SEAO. As our client continues to accelerate it’s digital transformation, the successful candidate will have opportunities to expand into emerging growth areas such as Commerce Media, Retail Media, GEO/SEO, custom audience solutions and omni-channel performance initiatives.

 

You are highly collaborative, a self-starter, with strong problem solving and analytical ability, and a track record of a “test & learn” mindset. You’re a strategic thinker that can leverage customer insights and data to help design strategy and guidelines to achieve marketing and sales goals, improve e-store conversions, site visit and improve customer experience.

 

Key Responsibilities:

 

Regional Search Leadership

• Lead search strategy and governance across local markets, ensuring adoption of regional best practices.
• Conduct regular account audits and performance reviews to identify optimization opportunities.
• Provide recommendations on campaign structures, bidding strategies, audience targeting, keyword architecture, and budget allocation.
• Drive search-led ecommerce growth through continuous optimization and demand capture strategies.
• Lead the adoption of new Google Ads capabilities, automation solutions and emerging search tech.
• Develop and work alongside regional and local teams to execute testing roadmaps across AI Max, Pmax, Merchant center and other emerging performance solutions.

Market Enablement & Capability Building

• Develop regional playbooks, frameworks, and best practice guidelines.
• Coach and upskill regional teams across search planning and execution.
• Lead capability workshops, training sessions, and knowledge-sharing forums with local markets
• Act as an escalation point for complex search performance challenges and troubleshooting.

Client & Stakeholder Management

• Partner closely with regional hub teams to align search strategies with business objectives.
• Present performance reviews, recommendations, and strategic roadmaps to senior stakeholders.
• Build strong relationships across local markets and agency teams to drive alignment and execution excellence.
• Support broader performance marketing discussions across Search, Social, and Programmatic channels where required.

 

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• 6-8+ years of digital marketing experience with strong specialization in Paid Search.
• Recent hands-on experience managing and optimizing large-scale Google Ads accounts.
• Strong expertise across Google Ads, Performance Max, Merchant Center, Search automation and bidding strategies, Feed-based advertising solutions
• Experience working across multiple APAC or regional markets.
• Demonstrated ability to identify performance issues and provide strategic recommendations.
• Experience coaching teams and driving capability development.