Vice President Media Strategy

An exciting opportunity has become available to be part of our fast-growing team in North America. This role provides an outstanding opportunity to join a growing global integrated marketing advisory and will provide an ambitious individual with valuable experience for progression and development.

The Company

mediasense is a global, independent advisor that brings the clarity, connection and confidence modern marketers need to fuel growth. We help marketers eliminate waste and maximize the impact of their most significant investments at scale. Our ambition is to define and own an entirely new category – recognized as the world’s most trusted, independent and impactful marketing advisor. We do this by elevating how clients operate, how agencies deliver, how platforms perform, and how all parts of the ecosystem connect. Because progress doesn’t happen in isolation, it takes alignment, intelligence, and trust. That’s what we enable. That’s what we stand for. That’s Unified Marketing Intelligence.

mediasense is designed around how we help marketers optimize and transform through best-in-class structure and governance (Organization), partners and platforms (Ecosystem), governance and controls (Assurance), and measurement and effectiveness (Science). We have the proven ability to effectively support large, complex organizations and deliver multiple projects simultaneously. As evidenced through our strong track record with clients, we pride ourselves on the consistent high quality of service delivery and the ability to accelerate transformation and growth.

mediasense has over 250 employees across London, New York, Singapore and New Delhi.

For more information, visit www.media-sense.com

The Role

This role is for a VP, Media Strategy, based in North America. This role will report into the North American President.

This person will advise some of the world's most prominent brands on their media strategies, investments and operating models, and combine strategic vision, proposition development, industry engagement & hands-on client leadership. They will bring a strong perspective on how the future of media in North America is evolving, how marketers can create competitive advantage in the marketplace, and which advisory propositions will be most resonated in this dynamic market

The role itself will involve a range of activities including:

• Engage at the C-level, providing strategic counsel to clients on media strategy, investment, organizational design, agency relationships, data and tech
• Develop and drive strategic perspectives around the role and influence of media in driving value & impact for the modern marketing organization
• Generate and lead business development opportunities with existing clients and new prospects
• Establish key industry relationships (agencies, vendors, platforms, trade bodies) to inform proposition development, thought leadership and unlock insights for clients
• Partner closely with the Media Solutions Lead to ensure strategic recommendations are translated effectively into client engagements and delivery
• Represent mediasense at industry forums as the definitive independent voice on media strategy in the North American market

The Candidate

The ideal candidate will be an experienced, senior leader on the cutting edge of modern media. They will have held senior client side or agency (media or full service related) or consulting roles, responsible for navigating senior marketers through transformative challenges across their media ecosystem; strategically, operationally, and commercially.

They will have a depth of expertise across the core components of media planning, buying & optimization, while also comfortable talking to the interdependencies of media across data, technology, content, retail, social & measurement. They will be a strong communicator, able to make the complex simple and clear, demonstrate critical thinking in how they diagnose problems and develop solutions, and be the collaborative partner to clients and colleagues alike. Further, successful leaders within mediasense lead by doing, not just directing.

The ideal candidate will have the following:

• 15+ years of experience in media strategy and senior media leadership.
• Deep domain expertise across US media, and its interdependent disciplines
• Proven ability to engage and influence at the most senior levels of a client organization
• Strong, confident communicator (and writer) with high index towards critical thinking
• Experience operating in a consulting, advisory, or professional services context, or in a client-side media leadership role with a strong advisory orientation
• Well established and fostered network of senior leaders in the industry
• Track record of contributing to commercial growth
• Comfort with complexity and ambiguity, navigating new challenges
• Ability to role shift based on client and project need including supporting client management and individually creating outputs and deliverables rather than only overseeing

What We Offer

• Salary of up to $240K but this is negotiable
• 20 days holiday per year, up to a maximum of 24 days (with length of service) in addition to federal holidays
• Work from any location in the world up to 4 weeks per year
• 10 days Annual Leave Purchase per year
• Charity day
• Day off for your birthday
• Frequent social events
• Summer hours (amended working pattern)
• Company bonus scheme
• 401k
• Private Medical, Dental and Vision
• Employee Assistance programme
• Employee Referral Bonus
• New Business Bonus

Every application is reviewed by a human on our team (not AI), so it may take us a bit of time to get through them. Because of the large number of applications we receive, we’re not always able to reply to everyone individually especially via messages but we truly appreciate your interest.

Please note that can only consider candidates who already have the right to work in the US and do not require, now or in the future, visa sponsorship