Strategy Partner

Dentsu is an integrated growth and transformation partner to the world's leading organizations. Founded in 1901 in Tokyo, Japan, and now present in over 145 countries and regions, it has a proven track record of nurturing and developing innovations, combining the talents of its global network of leadership brands to develop impactful and integrated growth solutions for clients. Dentsu delivers end-to-end experience transformation (EX) by integrating its services across Media, CXM and Creative, while its business transformation (BX) mindset pushes the boundaries of transformation and sustainable growth for brands, people and society.

Carat is an award-winning media agency that uses its peerless understanding of the passions, motivations, and behaviours of real people to bring brands and their customers together. Carat is privileged to work with some of the most eminent companies in the world. We are recruiting for a Strategy Partner to join our team and be based out of the London Office.

Role Purpose

The purpose of the Strategy Partner role is to build strong upstream relationships with clients and to support the Global Client Lead and Digital partner to deliver a business plan that will galvanise dentsu international's operating model and, where appropriate, the network (local markets) around both the objectives of the client and the business. The role will focus on delivering a gold standard product around the International brands, providing a roadmap for the wider business to aspire to in terms of media efficiency and effectiveness. As a Senior representative of the agency in the client HQ location, the role will support to deliver thought leadership and innovative approaches within the global client, maintaining a pulse on the Red Star network, dentsu international, and media industry developments.

Key Responsibilities

• Digital Strategy acceleration and deployment across the international Brands.
• Support lead development of digital media strategy and digital media planning, enabling development of optimal global assets and campaigns, and utilisation in market to drive efficiency and business effectiveness.
• Support the Strategy Partner across international Brand team's strategy delivery and media planning, ensuring digital acceleration, but also a wider Data driven philosophy and approach.
• Work collaboratively with key additional agency partners, ensuring a harmonious relationship, and that Red Star brings acknowledged added value to all.
• Ensure a smooth link to global brand central activation maintaining a strong feedback loop and relationship with the Centre of excellence team in AMS.
• Support local teams in their localisation of global frameworks and tool kits to ensure innovative media solutions that work within and alongside global frameworks.
• Integrate with the martech and automated reporting stack workstream to ensure a clear roadmap and brief vs int brand needs is set, and leveraged post delivery.
• Work with wider global team, dentsu thought leaders, and network, to help identify trends and generate insights across markets that can inform the strategic direction for the wider agency teams.
• Leverage a strong knowledge of dentsu international planning tools and processes to aid workflow management and client delivery.
• Support the delivery of outstanding client service for central clients and work with In Account Director to deliver according to appropriate contact strategy and client service plan.
• Demonstrate a good understanding of the client's products, services, evolution vision and targets.
• Support the team in identifying opportunities for cross-sell and up-sell across the dentsu international capabilities.
• Help demonstrate and evolve the high energy culture of Red Star developed across the world to best service and grow the client relationship.

Key Skills

• Experience working on large matrix organisation Clients.
• Collaborator that brings local, regional, and global teams together for decision making.
• Proven capability of managing timings and deadlines accordingly for global communications.
• Thorough media and particularly digital media planning understanding.
• Solid understanding of media budgeting, ROI, and portfolio management for large global clients.
• Knowledge of technology and innovation led brands would be beneficial.
• Works well with partner agencies and media owners across the globe to deliver the best output for the client.
• Evidence of People management experience: sense of ownership in carrying out direct reports' and peer reviews and providing feedback.

What we offer

This is a permanent role. The team is based in our London office but operates under flexible working arrangements. The team are currently in the office twice a week. As well as a competitive salary, you'll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs.

Inclusion and Diversity

At Dentsu, we embrace diversity and inclusion, valuing the unique perspectives and contributions of every individual. We believe that diversity fuels creativity and innovation, benefiting our employees, partners, and communities. We welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic. Beyond recruitment, we strive to create an environment where everyone feels respected, supported, and empowered to bring their authentic selves to work. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and are open to discussing flexible working arrangements for all roles.

If you need reasonable adjustments due to a disability or medical condition during our recruitment process, please contact us at accommodations@dentsu.com, quoting the reference number of the role that you are applying for. Your needs will be handled with respect and confidentiality to ensure an inclusive and accessible experience.