Digital Director

Job Description:

Introduction

Dentsu is an integrated growth and transformation partner to the world's leading organizations. Founded in 1901 in Tokyo, Japan, and now present in over 145 countries and regions, it has a proven track record of nurturing and developing innovations, combining the talents of its global network of leadership brands to develop impactful and integrated growth solutions for clients. Dentsu delivers end-to-end experience transformation (EX) by integrating its services across Media, CXM and Creative, while its business transformation (BX) mindset pushes the boundaries of transformation and sustainable growth for brands, people and society.

Dentsu X is an important part of our world-class offering - an integrated marketing agency network combining best-in-class communication and media planning services, content creation, technology, data and behavioural insights. In a saturated media agencies' market, dentsu X helps brands create memorable, personalised marketing solutions that meet rapidly changing consumer demands to deliver 'Experience Beyond Exposure.' Across the world dentsu X works hand in hand with clients' other agencies, and tap into our vast landscape of innovators, from tech giants to upstart startups. These clients include Jaguar Land Rover, LVMH, Kao Corporation and Netflix.

We're hiring for a Digital Director to join our team in London working across two of our great clients.

Purpose of the Role

As the Digital Director, you'll lead the digital planning, channel management and digital strategic thinking across telecom and wellness accounts. You'll manage and coordinate the specialist teams in the UK, providing strategic direction. You will be the go-to for the client, building a strong client relationship and developing deep understanding of their needs and business challenges, translating these into digital cross-channel strategies. You will focus on driving digital maturity and innovation to push our clients to be a market leader in their category.

Key Responsibilities

• Build deep relationships with local market teams, to ensure that they deliver work to a high standard that will meet client expectations.
• Lead the Display, Paid Social and Search teams predominantly based in London.
• Work alongside the strategy and planning team to deliver solutions to client briefs that are innovative and creative.
• Manage the end-to-end process from brief to delivery of media plans and post campaign insight.
• Stay current on a range of issues - market, industry and own area of expertise, continually testing new strategies to drive improved performance.
• Lead your team to ensure operational excellence in accurate and timely delivery of campaign setup, trafficking, and finance deliverables, working closely with the international finance, data/tech and market teams to deliver this.

Qualifications + Skills

• An expertise in performance media and its role in the wider digital ecosystem, demonstrating a passion for digital innovation.

• Knowledge of performance channels including programmatic, paid social, paid search/PPC & retail media.
• A strong understanding of the relationship between different media channels and experience with data analysis to support this.
• Strong communication skills, able to adapt your style for internal and external team and across different markets.
• Able to build trusting and collaborative relationships with colleagues and across the wider dentsu network
• Organised, with excellent attention to detail

What we offer

• This is a permanent role.
• The team is based in our London office but operates under flexible working arrangements. The team are currently in the office every Wednesday and Thursday.
• As well as a competitive salary, you'll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs.

Inclusion and Diversity

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.

We are happy to discuss 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. If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our recruitment teams.

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Location:
London

Brand:
Dentsu X

Time Type:
Full time

Contract Type:
Permanent]]>