Manager, IAT at Publicis Groupe in Toronto, Ontario, CA

Company Description

Spark Foundry is the agency that is shaped by ideas. We believe everyone’s ideas are powerful – big or small. Our knack for exploring them makes us better.

We strongly believe in collaboration, where a thriving working relationship leads to everyone’s best work. Luckily, this conviction attracts likeminded clients and talent to create a positive and magnetic team.

We’re constantly adapting to each of our clients’ businesses’ needs to avoid stagnation. This ensures that our clients get the best service to tackle their future-facing challenges and that our team stays on their toes.

Above all, we love to go above and beyond what’s expected of us. We’ve done this through media innovation that is recognized by both the industry and by our clients who reap the benefits.

The near future is very bright for Spark Foundry, whether that’s a result of Publicis Groupe’s investment in groundbreaking global & local tools and data solutions or because of the contagious momentum amplified by new team members and new clients.

Overview

The IAT Manager drives integrated planning by coordinating cross-agency inputs, managing timelines, and ensuring alignment across teams to deliver cohesive, client-ready communication strategies. The role focuses on streamlining workflows, maintaining planning frameworks, and enabling efficient collaboration across stakeholders. It also supports execution by tracking progress, consolidating insights, and continuously improving processes and outputs.

Responsibilities

• Support the IAT Strategy Director in developing integrated communications plans, strategic outputs, and client-ready materials
• Coordinate inputs across partner agencies, ensuring feedback, deliverables, and approvals are captured and organized
• Manage timelines, workback schedules, status documents, meeting agendas, recaps, and action logs across planning initiatives
• Maintain IAT materials, frameworks, toolkits, templates, and planning documents to ensure teams are working from current information
• Support the preparation of workshops, ideation sessions, client meetings, and internal alignment forums
• Help consolidate stakeholder feedback into clear, actionable summaries for the Director and broader IAT team
• Support the deployment and adoption of planning tools, frameworks, and processes within the Canadian market
• Partner with media, strategy, data, and partner agencies to gather inputs required for communications plans and measurement discussions
• Track progress against deliverables, flag risks or dependencies, and escalate issues to the Director as needed
• Contribute to the documentation of learnings, best practices, and process improvements
• Ensure consistency, accuracy, and clarity across IAT outputs and communications

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience in communications, media, brand strategy, account management, project management, or integrated planning
• Strong project management and organizational skills, with experience managing timelines, workback schedules, deliverables, and stakeholder follow-ups
• Experience coordinating cross-functional or multi-stakeholder initiatives
• Exposure to strategic planning, campaign development, or integrated communications planning
• Strong written communication and presentation development skills, including PowerPoint/deck development
• Detail-oriented with the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously
• Comfortable working across agencies, internal teams, and client stakeholders
• Familiarity with integrated marketing and media channels, including digital, social, influencer, and traditional media
• Proactive, collaborative, and solutions-oriented approach
• Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Strategy, or a related discipline preferred.

Skills

• Strong organizational, account management and project management skills
• Detail-oriented with the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously
• Clear and concise communicator, both written and verbal
• Ability to distill complex information into structured, easy-to-understand outputs
• Collaborative mindset with a proactive, solutions-oriented approach
• Curiosity and eagerness to learn across media, strategy, and integrated planning
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint and presentation development skills

Additional Information

Salary Transparency matters to us. The salary range for this position is $70,000 – $80,000 per year. Actual compensation within this range will be based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and applicable certifications. This range reflects what we reasonably expect to offer based on current market data.

AI Use

We use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of our hiring process, such as reviewing applications or analyzing resumes. These tools assist our recruitment team but never replace human decision-making. We believe in a human-first approach, where your experience and potential are recognized by people.

Spark is an equal opportunity employer with a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion. We create and nurture a vibrant work environment that celebrates, values and leverages all aspects of diversity and inclusiveness, attracts world-class talent and serves as the industry benchmark for best practices. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals and will provide appropriate accommodation for candidates with disabilities or accessibility needs throughout the recruitment process, upon request. Please contact our recruiter for any questions, accommodations or specific requests. We thank all candidates for their interest in Spark however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.