Strategy Director

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Strategy Director

Ready to lead strategic innovation? Join dentsu's Business Strategy team in our Brussels office, where we blend marketing intelligence, business strategy, and communications consultancy. As a Strategy Director, you'll craft brand communication strategies rooted in deep business understanding and human insights. Manage teams, drive insights, and deliver award-worthy ideas to our clients. Apply now and shape the future of brand strategy with us!

Full-time / Part-time · Brussels

Dentsu strategy

You will be part of the dentsu Business Strategy team. This team consists of three disciplines (Marketing Intelligence, Business Strategy and Communications Consultancy) which collaborate radically to serve our clients needs, with real data driven strategic thinking and actionable tactical direction through the total customer journey. This specific role applies to the (Brand) Strategy discipline.

About the role

The purpose of this role is to create brand/marketing communication strategies grounded in deep understanding of business fundamentals and fueled by powerful and real human insights that help our clients lead their segments, grow their business and win in the world.

As Strategy Director you will also manage strategists and/or lead on innovative strategy projects on a single account or several accounts – guiding business objectives, insight generation, cultural narrative, media briefs, creative media solutions, strategic POVs and go-to market activations. And last but not least you will be in charge of delivering thought leadership and award worthy ideas to clients.

Key Accountabilities

  • Strategically leads on day-to-day strategic work for client(s);

  • Develops, manages and grows a team of strategists;

  • Delivers proactive thought leadership to client(s);

  • Leads and/or inputs into new business pitching;

  • Contributes to agency thought leadership or initiatives;

  • Guides how audiences will contribute to achieving the overall business goals;

  • Guides award worthy work through creative media solutions.

What are we looking for?

Professional Skills:

  • Deep understanding of the marketing communication in general and the media landscape in specific;

  • Significant knowledge of communications planning and research methodologies;

  • Strong business and commercial acumen;

  • Identifies key market and consumer trends;

  • Experience in executing empirical research and data science;

  • Ability to generate innovative media driven ideas;

  • Strong entrepreneurial mindset;

  • Language skills: Fluent in English and in Dutch or French.

Key experience:

  • +7 years of experience in (marketing/ communication/ media) strategy;

  • Owned a client relationship;

  • Managed/worked with diverse teams to affect change;

  • Budget and profitability management;

  • People Management;

  • Digital Savvy;

  • Project management tools.

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.

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