Managing Partner - Strategy

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.

iProspect is an important part of our world-class offering - a global digital-first end-to-end media agency. Its unmatched mix of media strategy and storytelling with digital expertise and audience knowledge defines the new territory of performance-driven brand building. By delivering human-centric solutions, iProspect accelerates growth for the world's most iconic brands including eBay, BMW, Netflix, Next and Carlsberg. The iProspect team works across a network of more than 8,000 media and performance specialists spread across 93 global markets.

We're hiring for a Managing Partner - Strategy to join our team in London on a fixed term contract until January 2026.

Purpose of the Role

As Managing Partner - Strategy, you'll develop and manage a team of media strategists to drive growth for our clients by finding new ways to connect their brand to the consumer. iProspect exists to accelerate and build brands with a performance mindset and this role will be pivotal in helping our clients find the optimal way to take their brand to market. You will create strategies using capabilities at the forefront of insight, data, creativity and commerce built on the agency's proprietary platforms and deliver these to clients in both pitches and ongoing relationships.

You'll also develop our strategic skillset agency-wide, training the agency in the craft of strategy and planning responses that drive business growth. Typically delivered through a combination of all agency training events, smaller top up initiatives and a regular drum beat of training and events.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, manage and grow a team of senior media strategists, stewarding the workload of the team; assigning ad hoc client projects and new business pitches as well as guiding, mentoring and quality control of output.
• Lead new business pitches and support strategists in leading pitches across global and local remits.
• Deliver best in class responses to brief, embracing the latest agency narrative, distinctively iProspect proposition and utilising the latest in the network's tools and product offerings.
• Lead the agency thought leadership, championing best in class work across the agency in forums to inspire and educate teams is also a critical lever in growing the agency output.
• Ensure award winning creative output for agency through client work, owning the communications planning process.
• Participate in Industry events to promote agency thought leadership

Qualifications + Skills

• Experience in a senior strategy role within a media agency.
• Extensive experience in pitching and working with large clients at a senior level, with the gravitas and professionalism to engage at a senior level across clients and prospects.
• Exceptional planning capability with a broader understanding of data sources and insight sources in the media industry and how to use them.
• Able to demonstrate strong leadership presence and exceptional communication skills across internal teams and with external clients and partners.
• Experience in managing a team, supporting with development and growth of direct reports.
• Any exposure/experience in AI and emerging technologies and a willingness to lean into new industry trends.

What we offer

This role is a fixed term maternity leave cover until January 2026. The team is based in our London office but operates under flexible working arrangements. The team are currently in the office 2-3 days each week, with one of those days being a 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:
Iprospect

Time Type:
Full time

Contract Type:
Fixed Term Contract (Fixed Term)]]>