Senior Agency Digital Strategy & New Business Lead

Boardroom Appointments; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments is seeking a seasoned digital strategy lead with at least five years of agency-side experience to manage high‑level client campaigns in the financial sector. The role focuses on planning performance media across channels, leading a team, and maintaining strong senior client relationships.

The position requires willingness to travel nationally and a proactive, tech-savvy approach to deliver best-in-class digital marketing outcomes for diverse portfolios.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years agency side experience in a digital strategy and/or execution role.
• Previous experience in managing clients in the financial sector highly beneficial.
• Good understanding of planning performance media campaigns across the various mechanisms, channels and buying models.
• Experience managing a team to deliver best in class client campaigns.
• Experience managing senior client relationships.
• Be a lover of Tech.
• Programmatic advertising understanding.
• This role will require extensive travelling nationally, so go-getters and jetsetters need only apply.

Responsibilities

• Client responsibility: Existing clientele and onboarding on new business.
• Be a point of contact for clients with the ability to handle the technical communications and provide high level briefs to be tasked.
• Attend catch ups with internal client teams to ensure you are aware of all upcoming campaigns and report on campaign performance.
• Be a trusted, knowledgeable source of information and expert in digital marketing.
• Ability to move with agility and thoroughness.
• Be the filter with client communications and provide factual feedback for internal allocation to the team.
• Develop positive relationships that reflect true partnership in achieving the objectives of the clients business and the goals of the client.
• Having an aura for networking.
• Ability to identify opportunity.
• Ability to onboard new clients and handle existing client relationships.
• Mentally sharp and quick processing.
• Work to understand your clients pressures and internal demands to ensure the Digital Command Centre receives the right information in a concise yet speedy manner even when on the road and meeting with new clients.
• Achieve a level of relationship with your clients whereby they trust and value your opinions and advice on their digital marketing activity.
• Be reliable, be responsive, have integrity and possess an eagerness to learn all the moving parts.

Skills

Agency side experience

Digital strategy

Execution

Financial sector client experience

Planning performance media

Team leadership

Senior client relationships

Tech affinity

Programmatic advertising

National travel

Job description

Boardroom Appointments is seeking a seasoned digital strategy lead with at least five years of agency-side experience to manage high‑level client campaigns in the financial sector. The role focuses on planning performance media across channels, leading a team, and maintaining strong senior client relationships.

The position requires willingness to travel nationally and a proactive, tech-savvy approach to deliver best-in-class digital marketing outcomes for diverse portfolios.