dentsu · 7 hours ago
Director. Marketplace & Partnerships - Retail & New Stream Media
Dentsu is a global marketing services company, and they are seeking a Director for their Marketplace & Partnerships division. The role involves leading strategic partnerships, supporting the partnership strategy, and ensuring excellence in execution of assigned partnerships while balancing the needs of both the retail and media teams.
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Responsibilities
Build and guide relationships with specialized partners in the market, distributing pertinent information to management where needed across dentsu stakeholders
Support the SVP, Partnerships to implement market strategy
Be a leader and subject-matter-expert in assigned specialism within the Partnership community
Work between Craft Activation teams and New Stream Media teams to ensure partnership approach meets the needs of our clients and drives value extraction
Manage daily deal terms and communication of the partnerships, ensuring excellence in execution
Inform and educate Craft Activation teams on partner deal terms and push new testing and value opportunities to Craft Activation teams
Support the creation and execution of dentsu and client Joint-Business-Plans and ensure all negotiated value is capitalized on
Be seen as an integrator and problem solver both internally and externally driving partners and maintaining on-time engagement across several variables
Help develop key Partnership themes and lead in external communications of these in market (panels, PR, articles)
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
Support on client business where needed to build custom partnership plans and subject-matter-expertise of partner landscape
Participate in new business as subject-matter-expert in specialism and/or Marketplace & Partnership leader on value proposition for potential client
Remain ahead of the industry in understanding key trends, themes, technologies, and disruptors that can help propel dentsu's practices forward
Qualification
Required
8+ years' experience within the digital industry as a partnership or investment lead at a reputable agency or partner, specialized in retail media and retail media networks
3 years' experience management of a team
Consistent & exceptional project management
Must be comfortable working with and presenting sophisticated metrics to VPs
Ability to retain professionalism in all situations
Experience with problem-solving and collaboration across teams
Ability to translate complex ideas into actionable solutions
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.
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$24.88MKey Investors
Epiris
2012-07-12Acquired
1993-11-01Private Equity· $24.88M
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