Overview
As Mediat Strategy Director, you are the senior media lead for a high-profile account, owning the media agenda and content leadership. You bridge media, content, creative, influencer, and performance to deliver a cohesive full-funnel approach. You navigate complex client environments with authority and act as a strategic partner to senior stakeholders. You lead from the front on large campaigns and shape DEPT’s media propositions with cross-disciplinary teams.
Arbeidsvoorwaarden / Benefits
- health-focused benefits
- OV-bikes and NS Business Card
- mindfulness and mental health services
- discounts on sport memberships
- healthy lunches at the office
- training and certifications supported
Verantwoordelijkheden
- 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 (e.g. international brand moments, sponsorships, World Cup-scale activations)
- 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 - both internally and externally
- 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
Belangrijkste vereisten
- 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 (e.g. digital TV, influencer, creative, brand & performance)
- 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
- Persuasiveness
- Energetic communication
- Leadership
- Full-funnel media planning
- Digital and traditional media know-how
- Bridging brand and performance
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