Digtial Director

The purpose of this role is to provide strategic recommendations and manage all resources to ensure the Client’s marketing needs are met. They are viewed as a trusted advisor to client, understands and articulates client business insights and leverages to contribute ways to move business forward, lead and monitor the day-to-day activities; proactively identify new business building insights and opportunities, manage, motivate and develop their team; work with other departments to develop and execute strategies that will build the Client’s business.

Job Title:
Digtial Director

**Job Description**:
Digital Director

dentsu Media | Auckland | Permanent full time
- 3-2 work from home flex, giving you balance between professional and personal
- Additional annual leave after 2 years of service plus additional wellness days each year
- Unlimited learning opportunities with our global online learning platform, dentsu University
- Join a collaborative, close-knit team in our new modern office in the heart of Auckland CBD.

About us

When you join dentsu Aotearoa, Asia Pacific’s largest and most awarded Agency Network, you’re becoming part of one team. A team with diverse talents in creative, media, experience, and technology. And one with a shared ambition: to innovate the way brands are built.

As a Digital Director at dentsu Aotearoa, you’ll be joining a high performing team and a global dentsu community of over 60,000 in over 145 countries. Our collaborative and agile ways of working mean you’ll develop versatile skills and be exposed to new and exciting thinking. Combine that with a pioneering spirit at making a positive impact on brands, society, and each other and you’ll soon realise why we’re at the forefront of the digital economy.

What your role and typical day might look like

Client Engagement through a digital lens will be a key purpose of this role, being deeply involved and accountable in all aspect of digital media planning, investment and implementation including ad-ops, brand safety/viewability and measurement.

You’ll be supporting our Group Business Director and digital teams to create synergies between online and offline activities to ensure cohesiveness across the media strategy, meaning you’ll be working closely with key digital media suppliers such as Google and Facebook to ensure our key objectives are met.

Responsibilities could include
- Contributes to key digital media planning activities with new and existing client/s
- Manage dentsu network agency partnerships both internal and external.
- A leader within the field of digital and technology positively setting and example for the digital practitioners within the agency, including the delivery of the training and development activities.
- Maintaining an understanding of the latest technology, product and platforms trends and the potential impacts to client portfolios to supporting the digital ecosystem
- Able to provide a generalist view of all facets of digital media (biddable and non-biddable) and how they can work together effectively in the context of a media strategy and/or plan
- Clarity in how we are charging clients for digital media and ensuring contract compliance
- Supports investment in the accurate forecasting media billings by media owner
- To play a support role in new business as required

A bit about you
- At least 6 years’ experience working within a media and advertising agency or similar environment.
- A comprehensive understanding of the digital media market place and technology/product trends.
- Thorough understanding of the industries in client portfolio and in particular the digital norms for the category
- Ability to simplify the complex with a wide range of audiences
- Excellent client service skills - the ability to gain trust and confidence
- Confident communicator and able to present work with conviction
- Effective time management

Become a champion for meaningful progress

If you want to belong to a one global network where opportunities are limitless - we look forward to you joining us

Next Steps

**Location**:
Auckland

Brand:
Dentsu Media

Time Type:
Full time

Contract Type:
Permanent