At Publicis Groupe Belgium we are driven by the Power of One. That’s our raison d’être: to make brands relevant and interesting to people, to touch them and influence their behavior, to grow the business of the brands we work for. More than 200 diverse bright experts are organized in 4 interconnected métiers (strategy & data, creative experiences, media activation, and production), and are the drivers of our collective creativity. And ow, yeah, it’s “Groupe” with an “e”. With our group’s roots in la douce France you can expect loads of Liberté, Curiosité and Créativité.

The Search Director is responsible for leading the agency’s Search practice, ensuring operational excellence, developing talent, driving revenue growth, and elevating the agency’s expertise in paid search. The role combines strategic oversight, people leadership, client impact, and cross-department collaboration to deliver high-performing search activation across the board.

This is our bucket list, but we will not be disappointed if we cannot tick all the boxes in the end. All our experts have different backgrounds, which help them shape their day-to-day, that will not be any different in your case.

· Lead the Search team with full ownership of operations, workflow, and delivery quality.

· Manage capacity, timesheets, holiday planning, and resource allocation, proactively removing blockers.

· Train, mentor, and develop team members to grow expertise, autonomy, and overall performance.

· Improve ways of working and processes to boost efficiency and client satisfaction.

· Ensure balanced workload distribution and smart assignment of client portfolios.

· Develop new Search products and methodologies to strengthen the agency’s offering and revenue potential.

· Manage the Search team’s P&L, optimizing resources and profitability.

· Identify and pursue revenue opportunities, contribute to pitches, and support new business.

· Recruit and onboard Search talent that aligns with strategic needs.

· Maintain strong relations with partners like Google, Microsoft, and Apple to secure insights, support, and early access.

· Ensure agency and team certifications are maintained and up to date.

· Share benchmarks, best practices, and product updates across the team and clients.

· Coordinate Search initiatives within the Publicis Groupe for aligned and consistent activation.

· Deliver innovative Search solutions that exceed expectations and drive measurable client impact.

· Demonstrated leadership in Search with proven ability to manage teams, workload, and operational processes.

· Strong expertise in Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, Shopping, P-Max, and Search automation.

· Ability to manage financial performance, including P&L responsibility.

· Skilled communicator capable of influencing stakeholders at all levels.

· Strategic thinker with the ability to innovate Search products and methodologies.

· Comfortable mentoring, coaching, and developing experts.

· Excellent relationship building with partners and cross-department teams.

· You are fluent in Dutch or French, and English.

• A key position in a resourceful and people obsessed organization.
• Ambitious clients in the middle of their business transformation.
• A competitive salary and benefits program.
• An inclusive organization that recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of colour, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, age,
• A “great place to work” in the breath-taking carbon neutral Gare Maritime at Tour & Taxis. You’ll find facilities from showers so you can go for a yoga session or lunch-run in the Tour & Taxis Park to a food hall for if all that running (or only even thinking about it) made you hungry. But starting from January 1st, we’re moving to the Manhattan building in Rogier, where new adventures await us!

Have you become enthusiastic after reading? Well, apply now and join the tribe!