Strategy Director, dentsu Southeast Europe

Are you an impactful strategic mind, who can lead our world-class strategic and insight capabilities to help our client grow? Join us as a Strategy Director to solve our client’s business challenges across the Southeast Europe – Romania, Bulgaria, and Croatia. 

In this role, you will be guiding business objectives, insight generation, selling narratives, working with integrated media and creative briefs, out-of-the-box media solutions, strategic POVs and go-to market plans. Part of the responsibilities is delivering thought leadership and awarded ideas to clients.

You will be a leader who contributes to brand strategy, builds solid relationships with clients across all levels and functions, and is able to play an active “hands-on” role in the deployment of strategic plans. 

Key Accountabilities:
• Lead thinking to inspire innovative solutions, creativity and a proactive approach across brands and categories.
• Develop media audience strategy, touch points, and content consumption behavior to inform media and creative teams on overall media approach for lead markets across Southeast Europe – Romania, Bulgaria, and Croatia.
• Ensure delivery of strategic plan recommendations based on clear data driven insights.
• Leads and directs new business efforts with a clear understanding of the agencies go-to market strategy.
• Exemplify collaboration by building and maintaining productive relationships across all communications areas (internal teams and agency partners).
• Contribute and drive development of product working with operations, planning, analytics, and other teams.
• Leverage data and research to identify marketing opportunities and paid media budget prioritization across markets and platforms for B2B and B2C segments.
• Establish measurement framework that better reflects business results and boost media planning and creative accordingly.
• Leverage client end to end first party data to build and inform media strategies.
• Demonstrates and fosters a collaborative work environment in which ideas flourish

Experience & Expertise
• Considerable leadership experience (+7 years), developed in a relevant media business or commercial environment, that evidences a strong understanding of budgets, forecasting and financial controls, including ownership of profit and loss; project management, and resource allocation.
• Excellent knowledge across the Southeast European media market landscape and especially Romania, Bulgaria, and Croatia.
• Strong media marketing experience from strategy development to execution.
• An exceptional track record of the development of successful commercial, sponsorship and affinity partnerships.
• Ability to think beyond “media” as an active collaborator in the Integrated Marketing Communications process.
• Digital mindset/fluency and an insatiable curiosity with flexibility and agility to manage complex processes.
• Strategic thinker, seeing the bigger picture, with ability to analyze and think critically when solving problems to come up with unconventional solutions.
• Bachelor's Degree, concentration in Advertising, Marketing, Economics, Business Administration, or Communications preferred; MBA is a bonus.

Leadership skills:
• Exceptional interpersonal, communication, presentational and pitching skills combined with the ability to influence at all levels, and in complex stakeholder environments.
• Ability to influence, engage and motivate highly talented people to inspire great performance across departments
• A collaborative management style and an excellent people manager who can delegate responsibilities effectively; demonstrated by leadership in managing teams, setting clear objectives, and managing performance.
• Outstanding sales management skills
Complexity:
• Ability to work effectively in a complex, diverse, and changing environment
• Ability to balance being highly analytical and creative
• Ability to think strategically, critically, and collaboratively to support the development of detailed strategic plans. 

Personal:
• Commitment to work as part of a team.
• Practical, adaptable, and able to work on multiple activities under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• Fluent in written and spoken English.

Package Description:

• An exciting and independent role with big impact on the shaping of the future of media across the Southeast European markets
• We work in full hybrid-work-model, where people have the flexibility to decide how much they want to work from the office and from home. 
• Competitive compensation (salary and yearly bonus scheme as per company’s policy for the role)
• Flexible working hours and sick, personal, and parental leave.
• Additional free days for volunteering and mental health activities
• Health insurance
• Full tech equipment incl. laptop, mobile phone, and mobile plan
• Full access to dentsu's international training and development programs
• Work closely with the world’s biggest media partners to access exclusive features and products.

About the Company:
By joining dentsu, you will join 66.000 colleagues in 145 countries across the world who create world-class end-to-end marketing communications solutions. We help our clients to win, keep and grow their best customers with the help of best-in-class services and solutions in media, CXM, and creative.

In Southeast Europe, dentsu works with media agencies Carat, dentsu X and iProspect and creative agency Isobar, supported by its specialized divisions. We all share a joined ambition: to provide our clients with the invitation to the never before. Our values, the 8 ways to the never before, guide us to be a Force for Good, Climbing High and Making it real. We believe in open teaming, radical collaboration and providing the best integrated marketing solutions beyond agency and service lines.

We operate in 10 markets over Southeast Europe – Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Albania – with more than 300 dedicated specialists.

Diversity & Inclusion
We value the strength diversity brings to our business and are working hard to build a more inclusive workplace. We are happy to discuss all flexible and agile approaches to working for all our roles – we can’t promise we will be able to offer you everything you want or need but we do promise to discuss it with you openly and honestly.

How to apply
Please, submit your resume and a cover letter in English at: southeast.europe@dentsu.com

Only shortlisted applicants, who have submitted all required documents, will be contacted for an interview. All applications will be treated in strict confidentiality.

Deadline for applications

January 22, 2022