Global Platform Lead

Global Platform Lead For DentsuThe digital economy has positively impacted the way dentsu International works with our media partners, creating a transformational partnership agenda for the group. Platform innovation, their inventive ways of working, and new approach to agency monetization have led to a solutions philosophy, pioneered by the dentsu Partnership division. We pride ourselves in building transformational partnerships that solve key communication and business challenges for our clients.The Global Partnerships team is responsible for maximizing the value of dentsu's media partnerships with the major global technology partners (including Meta, Google, Amazon, Spotify, and Snap). The mission of the Partnerships Team is to leverage dentsu clients' media investment to build transformational products, solutions, and capabilities to maximize growth for all. This includes initiatives from training to data and insights, early access to new product developments, and co-creation of new products and solutions for our clients.As a Global Platform Lead for dentsu, you will be entrusted with managing the dynamic relationships with our largest partners on a global scale. Your role will be pivotal in fostering collaboration, driving strategic initiatives, and ensuring the seamless integration of our agency's multiple offerings and practice areas with our partners' objectives.Our largest 'Enterprise' partners touch multiple parts of our business, and this role will be responsible for connecting these multiple touchpoints, making sense of them, and translating them into both strategic and tangible commercial partnership design.This role, as part of the Global Partnerships Team, will be positioned as the specialist focal point for all things media relating to Amazon within the dentsu business and in addition, connecting the other core practice areas of CXM and Creative with the specific intent of creating points of difference for dentsu with our partners in the industry. In addition, this role will also be positioned as a senior focal point for the partner to access the broader dentsu business making it critical to value delivery both now and in the future.Key Accountabilities:Define translate cross-practice strategies into 'One Dentsu' holistic Amazon partnership with clear strategy and tangible commercial returns.Connect serve as global leader to drive cross-functional & cross-practice collaboration to reduce complexity of Amazon capabilities and ecosystem.Grow serve as Amazon SME and partnership advocate, enabling more fluid integration of offerings/innovation, to drive organic and net new growth.Innovate equip teams and relevant practitioners across dentsu with access and understanding of Amazon tools and services to unlock areas of innovation.Enable drive scaled internal education and proficiency across Amazon ecosystem of products, capabilities, and solutions.Professional Skills:15+ years of experience in media& marketing landscape.Deep knowledge of and experience with integrated media strategies and planning.Solid understanding of client needs and how teams latch onto new products/opportunities.Clear vision of the media/ad-tech landscape, across both 'legacy partners' as well as new/emerging tech.Proven leadership skills and ability to interact and influence at all levels of the organization, fostering strong cross-functional collaboration, teamwork and results.Experience in developing solutions to support the sale of new services to clients.Commitment to delivering media solutions and the ability to align team members behind said solutions.Desire to learn new skills and link different aspects of the business.Ability to think strategically, not just tactically; someone who can see the big picture but can articulate the all-important detail.Exceptional presentation skills, written and oral communication.Passionate about driving business forward and a team player.Has participated in new business development and pitches.Client-facing experience.Strong managerial skills and the ability to mentor and upskill others.Willingness to travel for business.Location: New YorkBrand: Global AmplifiTime Type: Full timeContract Type: Permanent