Leads strategic responses, audience strategies, insights, communications frameworks, and media planning for major clients. Acts as a senior strategic advisor, connects client, investment, creative, digital, and data teams, mentors Manager-level talent, supports new business pitches, and champions strategic communications thinking.
Job Description:
As the Strategy Director, get ready to own top tier responses to brief and become a trusted advisor to Australia's largest Drinks Retailer - Endeavour Group.
This is the perfect role to level up your leadership skills - go beyond the creation of strategic product, and learn to shape strategic direction, layering it into media planning and ultimately, the media plan design.
Core Responsibilities:
- Act as a trusted strategic partner to senior clients, championing their customers and identifying opportunities for business growth
- Lead the development of strategic outputs including brief diagnosis, audience strategy, insights and communications frameworks
- Work closely with Client and Investment teams to ensure that the strategic platform developed is carried through to the media plan.
- Lead, mentor and develop Manager-level talent, including performance, development, resourcing and utilisation
- Champion the value of Strategic Comms thinking to clients, while supporting on new business pitching as required.
About You:
- An experienced strategist with a keen interest in stepping up and building more leadership capability
- Familiarity working with diverse, large scale categories and verticals - experience working with regulated categories will be highly regarded.
- High level of competency in Media tools and systems, leveraging them to understand consumer insights and trends
- Naturally collaborative, bringing together client, media, creative, digital, data and broader dentsu capabilities without losing sight of the strategic direction.
- Ability to work closely with the Strategy Leads to identify and deliver key projects.
What’s in it for you:
- Real flexibility to work when and where you feel most productive with our ‘Be the Best Us' Policy
- The opportunity to give back with dedicated volunteer leave and our whole-company event, One Day for Change
- Three whole-company Wellness Days each year for you to switch off and take your day, your way
- Career development and learning opportunities, including access to our global dentsu University
- The opportunity to work with some of Australia’s leading brands and collaborate with strategic talent across the global dentsu network
Become a champion for meaningful progress:
Our diverse and inclusive culture enables our employees to bring their whole selves to work and be proud of doing so. For us, this is the foundation for great innovation which, in turn, generates better outcomes for our people, partners and communities. This is why we encourage applications from people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures.
If you want to belong to one global network where opportunities are limitless, we look forward to welcoming you.
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Location:
Melbourne - 510 Church StreetBrand:
Dentsu MediaTime Type:
Full timeContract Type:
PermanentDentsu Creative London, England Office
London, United Kingdom
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