Strategy Director – Media Strategy

Job Description

Strategy Director | Dentsu Aegis

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Dentsu Aegis, located in Melbourne. Dentsu Aegis is a global network that provides media and marketing services. This position is vital for a Strategy Director to lead top-tier responses to client briefs and become a trusted advisor to one of Australia’s largest Drinks Retailers, Endeavour Group. The role involves shaping strategic direction, integrating it into media planning, and ultimately influencing media plan design, offering a significant opportunity to develop leadership skills.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Permanent
• Location: Hybrid – Melbourne
• Mission: Own top-tier responses to briefs, become a trusted advisor to Endeavour Group, and shape strategic direction from media planning to media plan design.
• Tech Stack: Media tools and systems

What You’ll Actually Do
• Partner with senior clients: Act as a trusted strategic partner to senior clients, championing their customers and identifying opportunities for business growth.
• Lead strategic output development: Lead the development of strategic outputs including brief diagnosis, audience strategy, insights and communications frameworks.
• Ensure strategic platform integration: Work closely with Client and Investment teams to ensure that the strategic platform developed is carried through to the media plan.
• Mentor and develop talent: Lead, mentor and develop Manager-level talent, including performance, development, resourcing and utilisation.
• Champion strategic comms thinking: Champion the value of Strategic Comms thinking to clients, while supporting on new business pitching as required.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Director-level strategist with a keen interest in stepping up and building more leadership capability in strategic communications.
• Experience: Familiarity working with diverse, large scale categories and verticals.
• Skills: High level of competency in Media tools and systems, natural collaboration across client, media, creative, digital, data and broader Dentsu capabilities, ability to work closely with Strategy Leads to identify and deliver key projects.
• Bonus: Experience working with regulated categories.