Agency Selection Consultant

Vendor-MGT; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

No agency margins

Senior team

Flexible working Amsterdam/Jakarta

Job summary

Vendor-MGT, based in Amsterdam with global reach, seeks an experienced consultant to lead or support media agency selections for advertisers worldwide. You will build longlists from market knowledge, write briefs with clients, and maintain a format that enables real comparisons across proposals.

You will assess presentations, case rounds and chemistry meetings, then steer the commercial round to a watertight contract while preserving client relationships and trust.

Qualifications

• Broad experience in media from the agency side, the advertiser side or as a consultant.
• A feel for process and for people: you see the difference between a pitch team and the team doing the work.
• You can hold a conversation that challenges an agency without breaking the relationship.
• Strong in writing, because the brief decides the outcome.
• You expect the tooling to do the comparing, so your time goes to the judgement.

Responsibilities

• Lead or support agency selections, in a single market or dozens at once.
• Build the longlist from market knowledge and conversations, not from what has been published.
• Write briefs together with the client.
• Hold the response format that makes a real comparison possible.
• Assess presentations, case rounds and chemistry meetings.
• Prepare the commercial round and help make the contract watertight.

Skills

Media experience

Strong writing

Stakeholder management

Job description

This role leads and supports media agency selections for advertisers, from the first question of whether a pitch is even needed to the signed contract. Independent, paid by the advertiser, never by an agency. The process is the product: an honest brief, a real comparison, and an outcome that holds up.

What you'll do

• Lead or support agency selections, in a single market or dozens at once.
• Build the longlist from market knowledge and conversations, not from what has been published.
• Write briefs together with the client.
• Hold the response format that makes a real comparison possible.
• Assess presentations, case rounds and chemistry meetings.
• Prepare the commercial round and help make the contract watertight.

What you bring

• Broad experience in media, from the agency side, the advertiser side or as a consultant.
• A feel for process and for people: you see the difference between a team assembled for the pitch and the team that will do the work.
• You can hold a conversation that challenges an agency without breaking the relationship.
• Strong in writing, because the brief decides the outcome.
• You expect the tooling to do the comparing, so your time goes to the judgement.

What we offer

• A role entirely on the advertiser's side, without agency margins or conflicts of interest.
• Senior-level selections, in markets around the world.
• A small, senior team.
• Flexible working from our Amsterdam or Jakarta base, with room to work partly remotely.