Media Buying Lead

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Media Buying Lead

Do you want to be a trusted digital media advisor to one of the world's most international brewers? Are you an experienced people leader? Will you bring cutting edge biddable strategies across a vast network?

Then you could be the perfect match for the role of Buying Lead on the Heineken Amplify account!

Full-time · Amsterdam

About dentsu

As champions for meaningful progress, we help our clients to win, keep and grow their best customers with best-in-class services and solutions in media, CXM, and creative. We all are striving to be a force for good — for our people, for our clients, for the industry and for our society. We keep our people at the centre, creating space for growth, understanding and learning so they can thrive. We embed diversity, in our mindset, in our solutions and in our teams to empower an inclusive, equitable and culturally fluent environment. Building this culture within our teams makes us better collaborators with each other and with our clients, driving better outcomes for all.

With more than 66,000 dedicated specialists teaming across 143 markets, our ‘8 ways’ shape and guide the way we do things here, so that, together, we can achieve the ‘never before’ for our clients, for society and for each other. We dream loud. We inspire change. We team without limits. We all lead. We make it real. We climb high. We choose excitement. We are a force for good. We are dentsu.

Your Team

The Global Addressable Media team is working across London and Amsterdam, delivering digital media services to connect brands with consumers via best-in-class digital ad experiences and drive sustainable growth. We believe in the core principle of Value for All, by leading the transformation of the digital advertising industry so it creates an honest, clear & meaningful value exchange for our people, clients, society, consumers and the media industry. Together with 100 like-minded colleagues we run digital campaigns for advertisers over 50+ markets around the world. We have over 30 different nationalities in our teams and work closely with teams of Google, Meta, Amazon and many others to learn and use the most of those technologies. If you want to lead the transformation of the digital advertising industry with us, this role is just for you!

Role purpose - Buying Lead Heineken Amplify

As Buying Lead on the Heineken Amplify account you will be an absolute frontrunner in the world of addressable media with a focus on buying social and programmatic media. You will also lead the team in driving buying innovations as well as focusing on the broader ways of working across this global and dynamic account.

You will manage a team of Campaign Managers who are experts on major global technologies like DV360, GA360, Meta, Snapchat, Pinterest and many more.

This is a unique role where you are responsible for the complete digital media buying in multiple markets and drive innovation and thought leadership around the globe. We are looking for international talents who are curious by nature, a team player, like to understand more about the technologies behind advertising and prefer data driven decision making. As you will have to lead and steer a team in Amsterdam, it is necessary to be located or relocate to The Netherlands.

What are you going to achieve?

  • Leading the internal buying team to ensure the delivery of best in class programmatic and social campaigns;
  • Manage a team of programmatic and social traders and ensure team are supported with their training and development
  • Providing (buying) best practices and offers insights on how to improve campaign effectiveness;
  • Identifying opportunities, creating processes, and sharing learning from any testing of new partners, technology or platforms;
  • Maintain the account workflow (owning internal processes);
  • Lead client conversations around buying innovations and support the wider team in ensuring opportunities to drive innovation are being execute;
  • Driving innovation, automation and improvements to current account processes and ways of working.

Who are you?

  • You have at least 5 years of hands-on experience with Paid Media;

  • You are an expert in Programmatic and Paid Social buying, using multiple platforms e.g., DV360, TradeDesk, Amazon, Meta Business Manager, etc.;

  • You have strong leadership skills';

  • You have strong project management, presentational and problem-solving skills;

  • You are known for your exceptional client servicing capacity;

  • You have experience in driving innovation across addressable clients;

  • You have excellent communication and collaboration skills.


What do we offer? 

  • 3 extra days off (yes, at dentsu we take your well-being very seriously) - next to 25 annual holiday days off there are 3 Well-being Days;

  • 2 Social Impact Days - you can volunteer for the cause of your choice;
  • Extensive learning and development possibilities - wide range of in person and online training courses;
  • Clear career progression - you can grow towards a Director position; Needless to say that besides the vertical growth in your role there is plenty of opportunity to grow horizontally as well;
  • Plenty of room for socializing and other cool things besides work, such as Friday afternoon drinks, boot camps, yoga lessons, karaoke, a game of FIFA or table tennis and the well-known dentsu parties;
  • A hybrid work model, we work 3 days at the office, 2 days at home;
  • And, of course, a good salary and excellent fringe benefits.

Social impact

As a global leader in media and digital communications, we understand the power we have to influence the way that people think, feel and act. We are not simply spectators.

  • Sustainable World
When it comes to climate action, there is no room for compromise. We are proud to be one of the first companies in the world to have our net zero target validated under the new SBTi Net-Zero Standard. 

  • A Fair and Open Society
We’re proud to be different and that starts with our people. We believe in equal opportunities for everyone. Individuality is what makes us great, we want everyone to bring their full self to work and create something amazing.

  • Digital for good
Healthy world needs healthy media. We are increasing our focus on digital empowerment, well-being and responsible content, including eliminating fake news and hate speech.

https://www.dentsu.com/who-we-are/social-impact  

Apply for the job

Do you want to join our team as our new Media Buying Lead? Then we'd love to hear about you!

Not sure if you meet all of the requirements for this role? Please don’t hesitate to get in touch, as some of the specifications are not pre-requisites.