[Vacancy] Dentsu Creative Amsterdam has a position for Strategy Director

Marketing Report (een B2B nieuwsplatform voor marketeers); Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Coffee

Travel expenses

Lunch & drinks

Video booths

Parties

Stool massage

Exquisite accounts

Nice colleagues

Job summary

Dentsu Creative Amsterdam is seeking a Strategy Director to lead strategy for global and local brands from its Amsterdam office. Youll work with a diverse team of creatives, copywriters and designers to craft purpose-driven campaigns and experiences. DUTCH SPEAKER REQUIRED.

You will uncover insights through research, translate objectives into tactics, and push strategic thinking across projects while mentoring junior strategists. Hybrid work is available in the vibrant Houthavens office.

Qualifications

• +5 years of experience in the field of strategy.
• a portfolio with strong creative campaigns, brands and/or experiences.
• excellent verbal and written communication skills, in Dutch & English.

Responsibilities

• Develop effective communication strategies for campaigns, brands and experiences.
• Lead as the sparring partner for several global and local brands.
• Collaborate with creatives, copywriters, designers and more.
• Translate business objectives into real world tactics and campaigns.
• Challenge strategists with insights from research and changing consumer behavior.
• Play an active role during creative development and expand initial ideas into campaign plans.

Skills

Strategy

Decks / Presentations

Verbal & written communication

Team player / leadership

Job description

Dentsu Creative Amsterdam is directly looking for:

Strategy Director - Full-time Amsterdam

Dentsu Creative is looking for a talented Strategy Director to join our team in Amsterdam. You'll be working in a diverse practice of visual, verbal, and experienced people, who work together to create purpose-driven brands. DUTCH SPEAKER REQUIRED.

Your role

You work in collaboration with creatives, copywriters, designers and more, to develop effective communication strategies for best-in-class campaigns, brands, experiences and activations. You will be the lead strategist and sparring partner for several global and local brands.

This means

• you are able to uncover original human insights through consumer safaris, video interviews, data analysis and other research means
• you use these insights to wow clients, creatives and other agency peers.
• you translate business objectives into real world tactics.
• you challenge all strategists with in-depth knowledge of changing consumer behavior. Push them to be more in the now and in the know of what is happening.
• you take an active role during creative development, expanding first creative ideas into elaborate campaign plans.
• you are comfortable with different qualitative and quantitative research methods.
  

As a person

• you are passionate about creating awesome creative work
• you are curious, analytic and breath research
• you are proactive, with the ability to take initiative and identify opportunities.
• you always strive for creative excellence, and pushing the boundaries
• you are blessed with good presentation skills
• you are a born team player, knows when to lead, knows when to be hands-one.
  

You bring

• +5 years of experience in the field of strategy
• knows how to build proper decks
• a portfolio with strong creative campaigns, brands and /or experiences
• excellent verbal and written communication skills, in Dutch & English. Other languages are a pre

Who are we?

We are a modern creative agency, a family of roughly 100 entrepreneurial doers,creatives, designers, strategists, producers, creators, developers, zeitgeist-hunting magic makers, from around the world. The different cultures, educations, languages, and even lunch habits, help us to create unique, cross-border work, award winning brands, campaigns, products and experiences. We’ve got an open atmosphere, little hierarchy, and an equal playing ground. We value modern creativity, curiosity, diversity, collaborations, honesty, and kindness. Yes, we go fearlessly forward!

Why us?

Cause we are the family you wish for, the family you can choose, the family you don’t need to fear, we are the nice bunch. We are international, diverse, fun and collaborative. We’ve got clients you’ve always wanted to work for and projects you’ve always wanted to be a part of.

Why you?

Cause we would love to enlarge our family. We miss a big sister, crazy uncle, or witty nephew. And the most, we miss an over-enthusiastic sibling who is doing (or willing to do) something extra like mentoring the interns or coaching the juniors.

The perks

Your role is based in Amsterdam in our shiny new office in the hottest Houthavens. But if you like, you're also welcome to work partly remote. Furthermore you wil get:

• really, really good coffee
• travel expenses
• healthy lunch and drinks
• the weirdest video call booths in town (you won’t need no filters)
• awesome parties you will try really, really hard toremember
• a stool massage, if you prefer
• to work on the most exquisite accounts there are
• the nicest colleagues in town