<p><em>DEPT® is a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, our 4,000+ specialists deliver growth invention services across Brand & Media, Experience, Commerce, CRM, and Technology & Data. We’re 50|50 tech and marketing, partner-led, and first to move. Clients include Google, Lufthansa, Meta, eBay, and OpenAI. We have been certified B Corp and Climate Neutral since 2021.</em><em><br></em><em><br></em><em>This role is part of our </em><strong><em>Creative & Media </em></strong><em>team based in Rotterdam and Amsterdam. Our team is a vibrant mix of talents, ranging from Creatives, Influencer Marketers, Brand & Content Strategists to Account Managers, Programmatic and Marketing Automation Consultants. Together, we blend imaginative storytelling and performance-driven strategies with cutting-edge technology to create engaging digital experiences that build lasting relationships with our clients like Netflix, Canva, Foot Locker, Philips & Biscoff.</em></p> <p><strong>JOB PURPOSE</strong></p> <p>As a <strong>Growth Strategy Director at DEPT®</strong>, you are the senior strategic lead and media figurehead for one of our most complex and high-profile accounts. You own the media agenda for the client and act as the primary point of contact for media strategy, content leadership, and cross-disciplinary collaboration.</p> <p>You balance long-term strategic direction with hands-on leadership in execution, ensuring that ambition translates into impact. You connect media, content, creative, influencer, and performance disciplines into a cohesive full-funnel approach that challenges competitors and drives tangible business outcomes.</p> <p>In this role, you operate comfortably within a complex, political corporate environment and are trusted by senior client stakeholders as a strategic partner. Internally, you are a connector, motivator, and decision-maker who brings clarity, urgency, and focus to teams, especially during high-pressure, large-scale campaigns such as international sports or brand moments.<br><br></p> <p><strong>KEY RESPONSIBILITIES</strong></p> <ul> <li>Act as the senior media lead and content figurehead for the client, owning the media narrative and strategic direction</li> <li>Steer the overall media agenda, ensuring consistency, quality, and ambition across brand and performance activities</li> <li>Serve as the primary senior point of contact for media strategy towards the client's senior stakeholders</li> <li>Navigate a complex, client environment with sensitivity, authority, and confidence</li> <li>Present clear, compelling, and persuasive strategies to senior client management, translating complexity into actionable direction</li> <li>Balance long-term strategic vision with day-to-day urgency, knowing when to zoom out and when to step in</li> <li>Take hands-on leadership of large, high-impact campaigns (e.g. international brand moments, sponsorships, World Cup-scale activations)</li> <li>Ensure strategies are executable, prioritised correctly, and delivered with pace and quality</li> <li>Act as the link between disciplines, connecting media, creative, influencer, content, brand, and performance teams - both internally and externally</li> <li>Challenge teams and clients to push beyond conventional media thinking</li> <li>Proactively spot opportunities to expand the scope of work into broader strategic territories</li> <li>Contribute to new business opportunities, organic growth, and competitive positioning </li> <li>Help shape DEPT®’s media propositions, best practices, and strategic thought leadership</li> </ul> <p><strong>WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR</strong></p> <ul> <li>Senior media strategist/media director-level professional with extensive agency experience</li> <li>Proven track record leading large, complex, and demanding corporate accounts</li> <li>Strong understanding of how to operate within, multi-stakeholder organisations </li> <li>Full-funnel media expertise with a solid foundation in both digital and traditional media (e.g. digital TV, influencer, creative, brand & performance)</li> <li>Ability to bridge brand and performance, strategy and execution</li> <li>Knowledge of crafts beyond media and is capable of briefing and guiding a team of data, creative or tech experts</li> <li>Excellent stakeholder management skills with strong political sensitivity</li> <li>Persuasive, energetic, and inspiring communicator</li> <li>Confident presenter to senior client leadership, able to simplify complex strategies</li> <li>Strong process insight and prioritisation skills</li> <li>Ability to distinguish between theoretical strategy and what requires immediate action</li> <li>Comfortable getting hands-on and leading from the front when needed</li> <li>Natural connector who brings together people, disciplines, and ideas</li> <li>Fluent in Dutch and English </li> </ul> <p><strong>WE OFFER</strong></p> <ul> <li>Everything to focus on your health: from free bootcamp to yoga lessons, mindfulness sessions, mental health services, serious discounts on sport memberships, healthy lunches at the office, and above all: a safe work environment.</li> <li>Great fringe benefits; use of OV-bikes, an NS Business Card and many other goodies.&