Job Description

Senior Project Director, Nordics & Benelux

The role at a glance

This role is crucial within the media practice across Nordics & Benelux. You will help develop, initiate, implement and follow up on strategically important projects across the markets. The aim is twofold: 1) drive additional revenue and increase efficiency, 2) increase competitiveness across all markets.

As this is a multi-market role it is expected to be able to read the signals in the organisation, act on both internal and external insight, and bring focus areas forward for sign-off rather than waiting to be told what is important.

Priorities are agreed with the CEO of dentsu Denmark & the media practice lead.

What you’ll own

1. Governance and structure

• Creates a strong governance model for the media practice across Nordics & Benelux.
• Incorporates the growth community and practice leadership into the governance structure
• Recommends and decides the overall strategic priorities for the media practice together with CEO dentsu Denmark
• Aligns strategic priorities to the global media++ strategy with market break-down.
• Creates a partner program with key media partners
• Acts as orchestrator and point of contact for international and cross-market pitches with media/media++
• Drives local succession planning within the media practice, together with Market CEOs and HR
• Structures and drives knowledge sharing across the cluster

2. Strategic partnership

• Drives the practice community forward in a collaborative way, aligned to the goals that have been set
• Shares and cascades global and cluster information
• Shares and deploys Global Craft and other practice-relevant training to ensure participation in support of the brand proposition

3. Projects and commercials

• Owns and drives 2-3 strategic projects across the cluster

Must-haves

• 5+ years of media agency experience with real depth within client management and digital understanding
• Experience with multi-market clients or projects is beneficial
• A track record of owning a project end-to-end – not just feeding into someone else’s.
• Experience with multiple stakeholders – maybe across markets
• Comfortable with the main commercial dynamics – P&L, billable hours and client commercials – in a professional services or media/agency context
• Fluent Danish and English, written and spoken

Nice-to-haves

• Background in media, advertising, communications, digital agency or another creative-services business
• Hands-on with PowerPoint and project management tools

What success looks like

In the first year, success means the practice is running to a clear governance model and delivering measurable results across the markets. Concretely:

• Within three months, a governance model for the media practice is agreed and operating across Nordics & Benelux.
• Strategic priorities are set with the CEO and aligned to the global media++ strategy, with a clear market break-down.
• 2-3 strategic cross-cluster projects are underway, each with named owners, milestones and success metrics.
• Within twelve months, measurable revenue growth and efficiency gains are delivered across the markets.
• A partner program with key media partners is live and adding value.
• Competitiveness visibly improves through stronger pitches and better client outcomes.
• Knowledge sharing and succession planning run to a steady cadence, with clear, regular reporting to the media lead and Market CEOs.

How you show up

• You like being close to the business and people within – not adjacent to it
• You drive the agenda. Hands-on, but you keep your head up and look ahead
• Ambiguity doesn’t spook you. You take strategy and turn it into concrete plans with owners and dates
• You measure your work by what changed in the business – revenue, cost, competitiveness – not by hours logged
• You take real ownership of the agendas you carry
• You’re trusted by leaders to deliver tough feedback and bring genuine strategic insight
• You shape the agenda – you don’t wait for it to land in your inbox
• You’re curious about AI and lean into it

Who you’ll work with

• Denmark CEO & media lead Nordics & Benelux and Exec team.
• Cluster leadership
• Media practice leads in each market
• Senior specialists from each market

About Dentsu
Dentsu Group is a global marketing communications company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is one of the largest advertising and media firms in the world. The company offers a wide range of services in advertising, marketing, communication, and digital media, catering to clients across various industries.

Joining dentsu is an opportunity to produce career-defining work. Along the way, you will team up with inspiring colleagues and encounter a rich variety of clients, cultures, and experiences.

We help clients to win, keep, and grow their best customers and achieve meaningful progress for their businesses with the best-in-class services and solutions in media, CXM, and creative. For more information, please visit www.dentsu.com

Diversity and Inclusion
At dentsu we believe in the power of diversity. We welcome all applications regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, color, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

Contact:

We look forward to receiving your application for any questions, please contact our Talent Acquisition Partner Benjamin Våg by phone at: +45 53 67 58 09

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Location:

København K

Brand:

Dentsu

Time Type:

Full time

Contract Type:

Permanent