Key Accountabilities

Develop AV plans with optimal performance, including substantiation to the customer and further follow up on the next steps (presentations, optimizations, procurations);

Stay connected with the other planners and director in the client team in order to establish integrated communication plans;

Support and participation on pitches together with trading and represent the AV Director;

Monitoring and implementation of recommendations from evaluations (audits, tracking, savings, etc.);

Support of AV Planning Director with all occurring activities;

Taking responsibility on your own customers by actively engaging in customer contact, showing proactivity and thus achieving optimal customer satisfaction;

To be able to negotiate independently with operators and to deal with contract commitments in close cooperation with trading, where customer-specific wishes are central;

Keeping track of contractually agreed agreements and the associated forecast in AV area as well as the media calendars applicable to the customer (annual planning);

Keeping up to date with current media information and offers, while proactively looking at possibilities within the customer package and informing the customer team and the customer;

Develop vision in the field of AV with an analytical mindset.

What are we looking for?

Professional Skills:

Deep knowledge of the AV landscape;

Deep knowledge of AV planning and purchasing tools;

Project management experience, deep understanding of processes, workflows, (online) tools and methodologies;

Numerical and analytical skills;

Presentation skills;

Commercial strong and pro-active/ energetic attitude. You can think in solutions and you are able to work pro-actively on new client proposals;

Excellent verbal and written communication skills in Dutch or French and good in English.

Key Experience:

+ 3 years of working experience AV Planning;
Experience in making and presenting high level AV recommendations;
Project Management;
Experience in advising complex (international) clients;
Thinking and acting in a result-oriented and problem-solving way.

What does dentsu offer?

Opportunities to grow in the media field;

Good development and career opportunities;

Personal responsibility and independence;

Enthusiastic colleagues and a positive work atmosphere;

International work environment where knowledge development and improving each other is paramount;

Working with the best specialists within our field;

The opportunity to work for an agency that works for well-known and leading clients;

Lots of room for fun and other cool things to do besides work, such as Friday afternoon drinks at the bar or on our roof terrace, boot camps, yoga classes, karaoke, a game of FIFA or table tennis, the dentsu parties and well-being days;

And, of course, a good salary and excellent secondary employment conditions.

What else?

Lots of challenging work, tons of learning opportunities and very informal atmosphere.

dentsu is a fantastic place to work with many great benefits on offer!

Not only is it an incredibly fun place to work but as part of a multinational organization there are many opportunities to advance your career within the wider business once you have proven yourself.

Inclusion and Diversity

We’re proud to be different and that starts with our people. We believe in equal opportunities for everyone. We won’t define people by their race, gender, sexual-orientation, age or disability. Individuality is what makes us great, we want everyone to bring their full self to work and create something amazing. That’s what we care about. So, whether you’re joining us, or looking to move to a different part of the business, we work hard to make sure we create equal opportunities for everyone.

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.

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.

Dentsu is the most integrated media company in the world and provides various services which we divide into 3 service lines; 'dentsu Creative', 'dentsu Media' and 'Merkle, a dentsu company' (CXM). In our global network, we work with 46.000 passionate colleagues, in 143 markets, for 85 of the 100 top advertisers.

Our goal? Together with the brand, we create the best solutions and services to create new opportunities that realize sustainable growth and business transformation across the entire consumer journey.

Senior Media Specialist AV