Melbourne: Senior Client Partnerships Lead (Media)

Dentsu (Anz) Management Services Pty Ltd; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Be the Best You home office allowance

Volunteer leave

Wellness days

5 weeks annual leave

DEI Councils

Job summary

Dentsu in Melbourne is seeking a Senior Client Manager to lead one of our most important client relationships, delivering large-scale media and content partnerships for a top health insurance brand. You will oversee campaign delivery, budgets, and cross-functional teams across publishers, creative agencies and internal specialists, ensuring campaigns run on time, on budget and to the highest standard.

This role suits a strategic, fast-paced professional who thrives on building lasting client

Qualifications

• Approximately 4-5 years’ experience within a media agency, publisher or partnership-focused environment.
• Experience in implementing offline media channels and digital partnerships.
• Understanding of how editorial content, branded content and media partnerships work together to deliver client outcomes.
• Collaborative in nature and able to work cohesively in an extended agency village.
• Excellent organisational skills with exceptional attention to detail.
• Strong commercial acumen and confidence managing budgets, forecasting and financial processes.
• Strong understanding of OOH media, alongside experience in digital partnerships.
• Comfortable working in a high-volume, fast-paced environment while maintaining accuracy and quality.

Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation and delivery of integrated media and content partnerships across key publisher and media partners.
• Manage multiple high-profile partnerships concurrently, ensuring campaigns are delivered on time, on budget and to the highest standard.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, media owners, publishers and creative agency partners.
• Act as a key day-to-day contact for the client, leading implementation across offline channels and working closely with digital specialists for an holistic recommendation delivery.
• Manage media plans, campaign channel set up and provide delivery oversight with the support of the team (Investment Manager, Client Executive and Senior Client Director).
• Monitor budgets, planned and actual spends, maintaining accuracy for financial reconciliations, ensuring strong commercial management across all activity.
• Data management and upload of media mix modelling spends by channel; experience preferred but not essential.
• Solidify the relationship with client and agency village through exceptional account service and partnership management.

Job description

Dentsu in Melbourne is seeking a Senior Client Manager to lead one of our most important client relationships, delivering large-scale media and content partnerships for a top health insurance brand. You will oversee campaign delivery, budgets, and cross-functional teams across publishers, creative agencies and internal specialists, ensuring campaigns run on time, on budget and to the highest standard.

This role suits a strategic, fast-paced professional who thrives on building lasting client