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Growth Strategy Director

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Job Description:

As a Growth Strategy Director at DEPT®, 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. 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. 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. Please note that this is a pipeline role. While we do not have an immediate opening, we are gathering qualified candidates for anticipated future needs.

Job Responsibility:

  • Act as the senior media lead and content figurehead for the client, owning the media narrative and strategic direction
  • Steer the overall media agenda, ensuring consistency, quality, and ambition across brand and performance activities
  • Serve as the primary senior point of contact for media strategy towards the client's senior stakeholders
  • Navigate a complex, client environment with sensitivity, authority, and confidence
  • Present clear, compelling, and persuasive strategies to senior client management, translating complexity into actionable direction
  • Balance long-term strategic vision with day-to-day urgency, knowing when to zoom out and when to step in
  • Take hands-on leadership of large, high-impact campaigns (e.g. international brand moments, sponsorships, World Cup-scale activations)
  • Ensure strategies are executable, prioritised correctly, and delivered with pace and quality
  • Act as the link between disciplines, connecting media, creative, influencer, content, brand, and performance teams - both internally and externally
  • Challenge teams and clients to push beyond conventional media thinking
  • Proactively spot opportunities to expand the scope of work into broader strategic territories
  • Contribute to new business opportunities, organic growth, and competitive positioning
  • Help shape DEPT®’s media propositions, best practices, and strategic thought leadership

Requirements:

  • Senior media strategist/media director-level professional with extensive agency experience
  • Proven track record leading large, complex, and demanding corporate accounts
  • Strong understanding of how to operate within, multi-stakeholder organisations
  • Full-funnel media expertise with a solid foundation in both digital and traditional media (e.g. digital TV, influencer, creative, brand & performance)
  • Ability to bridge brand and performance, strategy and execution
  • Knowledge of crafts beyond media and is capable of briefing and guiding a team of data, creative or tech experts
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills with strong political sensitivity
  • Persuasive, energetic, and inspiring communicator
  • Confident presenter to senior client leadership, able to simplify complex strategies
  • Strong process insight and prioritisation skills
  • Ability to distinguish between theoretical strategy and what requires immediate action
  • Comfortable getting hands-on and leading from the front when needed
  • Natural connector who brings together people, disciplines, and ideas
  • Fluent in Dutch and English
What we offer:
  • 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
  • Great fringe benefits
  • use of OV-bikes, an NS Business Card and many other goodies
  • A reputation for doing good. DEPT® has been named a Great Place To Work in 2023 - in the Netherlands and has been a Certified B Corp® since 2021 and named ‘Agency of the Year’ at both The Lovies and The Webby Awards
  • Awesome clients. Whether big or small, local or global — at DEPT® you’ll get the opportunity to work with clients of all sizes and across all industries. And we celebrate all of our successes together
  • The opportunity for possibility. We want to enable you to do what you do best and help you develop your skills further with training, development and certifications
  • Global annual DEPT® Cares Month in which employees come together and donate their skills to support local charities

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 03, 2026

Work Type:
Hybrid work
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