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 Media Strategy Director, you are the architect of the client’s media presence. You will act as the visionary lead for one of our most complex global accounts, translating business goals into a sophisticated, full-funnel media roadmap.
Responsibilities:
- Media Visionary & Figurehead: Own the end-to-end media narrative for the client.
- Senior Stakeholder Management: Serve as the primary senior point of contact for media strategy.
- Strategic Communication: Present clear, compelling, and persuasive strategies to senior client management.
- High-Stakes Leadership: Take hands-on leadership of large, high-impact activations.
- Operational Excellence: Ensure media strategies are executable, prioritized correctly, and delivered with pace and quality.
- Cross-Disciplinary Orchestration: Act as the vital link between media, creative, influencer, and tech.
- Commercial Growth: Proactively spot opportunities to expand the scope of work into broader strategic territories.
- Practice Leadership: Help shape DEPT®’s global media propositions, developing best practices and strategic thought leadership.
Requirements:
- A Media Veteran: You are a senior media strategist or media director-level professional with extensive agency experience.
- A Full-Funnel Architect: You possess full-funnel media expertise with a solid foundation in both digital and traditional media.
- An Integrative Thinker: You have the ability to bridge brand and performance, strategy and execution.
- A Stakeholder Navigator: You have excellent stakeholder management skills with strong political sensitivity.
- A Master Communicator: You are a persuasive, energetic, and inspiring communicator.
- A Pragmatic Leader: You possess strong process insight and prioritization skills.
- A Connector: You are a natural connector who brings together people, disciplines, and ideas.
- You are fluent in both Dutch and English, capable of leading high-level strategic discussions in both languages.
Benefits:
- 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.