dentsu · 2 weeks ago
VP - Organic, Influencer and Paid Social - Partnerships
New York
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
$113K/yr - $183K/yr
10+ years expDentsu International Americas is seeking a VP - Organic, Influencer and Paid Social - Partnerships. This role involves developing and executing partnership strategies in the social media domain, negotiating agreements, and ensuring these partnerships meet strategic objectives while collaborating with multiple stakeholders.
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Responsibilities
Own and lead a portfolio of relationships with social partners in the market, distributing pertinent information to management where needed across dentsu stakeholders
Using market intelligence, client feedback and collaboration across the core stakeholders (Amplifi, Investment & Activation, Agencies), to develop and execute a social partnership strategy for the year
Partner with senior leadership to identify new partnership opportunities to strengthen relationships with key vendors, anticipating critical needs of our business
Be a leader and subject-matter-expert in social within the Partnership community while embracing cross-channel strategy and representing other channels in partnership discussions
Work closely with Investment & Activation teams and Amplifi to ensure partnership approach meets the needs of our clients and value extraction goals
Work cohesively across dentsu media and dentsu creative to help drive aligned partnerships and go to market strategies across all aspects of social
Responsible for properly identifying and assessing commercial opportunity, ensuring opportunity is maximized and successfully delivered
Be seen as an integrator and problem solver both internally and externally driving partners and maintaining on-time engagement across several variables
Drive standards of excellence and consistency across the team, including reporting, ways of working, endeavor tracking and partnership compliance
Support the development of key Partnership themes and lead in external communications of these in market (panels, PR, articles), particularly in area of specialization
Liaise and partner with Product and Solutions organizations to facilitate partnership development and capability creation within dentsu
Provide consistent communication and organization of key partnership information to teams and management to capture all the nuanced detail of these commercial agreements and keep on track for deal progression. Including saving key information for easy distribution across the organization
Consult on client business to build custom partnership plans and subject-matter-expertise of partner landscape
Participate in new business as a social subject-matter-expert and/or Partnership leader on value proposition for potential client
Qualification
Required
10-12 years' social experience within the digital industry as a partnership or investment lead at a large agency or partner
5+ years' experience management of a team – with proven ability to lead a highly successful team
Consistent exceptional project management, ability to prioritize and meet deadlines
Excellent verbal and written communications, presentation, and analytical skills; must be comfortable working with and presenting sophisticated metrics to C-level
Passion for problem-solving and collaboration across teams
Ability to translate complex ideas into actionable solutions
Strategic thinking and the ability to make critical business decisions aligned with organizational goals
Experience in organizational transformation and leading large-scale change management programs
Experience working with multiple senior peers and stakeholders, taking initiative and ownership
Business acumen, client-centricity, and a commercial mindset are essential, along with a genuine passion for people
Ability to balance, prioritize and properly assign work associated with multiple, concurrent projects and stakeholders
Benefits
Medical, vision, and dental insurance
Life insurance
Short-term and long-term disability insurance
401k
Flexible paid time off
At least 15 paid holidays per year
Paid sick and safe leave
Paid parental leave
Company
dentsu
We are dentsu.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$24.88MKey Investors
Epiris
2012-07-12Acquired
1993-11-01Private Equity· $24.88M
Leadership Team
Dawn Rowlands
CEO Sub-Saharan Africa
Nigel Sharrocks
CEO, Aegis Media Global Brands
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