Description
DEPT® is a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, our 4,000+ specialists deliver growth invention services across Brand & Media, Experience, Commerce, CRM, and Technology & Data.
As a Growth Strategy Director at DEPT®, you are the senior strategic lead and media figurehead for one of our most complex and high-profile accounts. You own the media agenda for the client and act as the primary point of contact for media strategy, content leadership, and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Act as the senior media lead and content figurehead for the client, owning the media narrative and strategic direction
- Steer the overall media agenda, ensuring consistency, quality, and ambition across brand and performance activities
- Serve as the primary senior point of contact for media strategy towards the client's senior stakeholders
- Navigate a complex, client environment with sensitivity, authority, and confidence
- Present clear, compelling, and persuasive strategies to senior client management, translating complexity into actionable direction
- Balance long-term strategic vision with day-to-day urgency, knowing when to zoom out and when to step in
- Take hands-on leadership of large, high-impact campaigns
- Ensure strategies are executable, prioritised correctly, and delivered with pace and quality
- Act as the link between disciplines, connecting media, creative, influencer, content, brand, and performance teams
- Challenge teams and clients to push beyond conventional media thinking
- Proactively spot opportunities to expand the scope of work into broader strategic territories
- Contribute to new business opportunities, organic growth, and competitive positioning
- Help shape DEPT®’s media propositions, best practices, and strategic thought leadership
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
- Senior media strategist/media director-level professional with extensive agency experience
- Proven track record leading large, complex, and demanding corporate accounts
- Strong understanding of how to operate within multi-stakeholder organisations
- Full-funnel media expertise with a solid foundation in both digital and traditional media
- Ability to bridge brand and performance, strategy and execution
- Knowledge of crafts beyond media and is capable of briefing and guiding a team of data, creative or tech experts
- Excellent stakeholder management skills with strong political sensitivity
- Persuasive, energetic, and inspiring communicator
- Confident presenter to senior client leadership, able to simplify complex strategies
- Strong process insight and prioritisation skills
- Ability to distinguish between theoretical strategy and what requires immediate action
- Comfortable getting hands-on and leading from the front when needed
- Natural connector who brings together people, disciplines, and ideas
- Fluent in Dutch and English
WE OFFER:
- Everything to focus on your health: from free bootcamp to yoga lessons, mindfulness sessions, mental health services, serious discounts on sport memberships, healthy lunches at the office, and above all: a safe work environment.
- Great fringe benefits; use of OV-bikes, an NS Business Card and many other goodies.
- A reputation for doing good. DEPT® has been named a Great Place To Work in 2023 - in the Netherlands and has been a Certified B Corp® since 2021 and named ‘Agency of the Year’ at both The Lovies and The Webby Awards.
- Awesome clients. Whether big or small, local or global , at DEPT® you’ll get the opportunity to work with clients of all sizes and across all industries.
- The opportunity for possibility. We want to enable you to do what you do best and help you develop your skills further with training, development and certifications.
- Global annual DEPT® Cares Month in which employees come together and donate their skills to support local charities.