Strategic Planner (Maternity leave replacement )

Dentsu Israel’s strategy team is seeking a talented Strategic Planner for an 8-month contract (maternity leave cover) with the potential for a permanent role.

If you're passionate about marketing strategy and have at least one year of experience in strategic planning within advertising, consulting, or digital agencies, we’d love to hear from you!

Dentsu is a global leader in media, advertising, and digital services, with offices in over 145 countries and 71,000 employees worldwide.

What are your responsibilities?

• Creating strategies grounded in deep understanding of business fundamentals and fueled by powerful insights that help our clients grow their business and win. Leveraging data of all sorts to build powerful arguments that de-risk new horizons and build confidence for bold decision making.
• Develop and refine the skill sets foundational to the strategy discipline, data discovery, consumer research, cultural analysis, brand and media strategy, brief writing, etc.
• Serve as a source of data and analysis on brand and consumer issues for both clients and dentsu team members
• Uncover and curate actionable consumer insights in collaboration with analytics, research, and brand teams
• Help define the clients’ strategy (objectives, audiences, messaging, platforms) in collaboration with client and media teams
• Work closely with global cross-functional teams to develop and implement innovative media solutions, such as CTV, Programmatic Audio, Digital Out-of-Home across and other cutting edge new channels, ensuring alignment with overall marketing objectives.
• Working alongside paid media team to define and achieve annual acquisition and requisition targets and budgets
• Foster strong relationship with marketing clients to help them create impact
• Thrive in a collaborative work environment in which ideas are sharpened together
• Proactively seek out for opportunities to make the work (and the world) better

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree from a leading university
• 1-2 years of experience in strategic planning in advertising / consulting firm / digital agencies.
• Work experience as research assistant/ teaching assistant in university - an advantage
• Fluent English – Must
• Understanding of the online advertising industry and a passion for communication, advertising and media industries
• Constant learning mindset with strong self-learning abilities
• Strong project management skills and meticulous attention to details.
• Ability to prioritize, deliver and execute in fast-paced environment
• Strong written and communication skills
• Effective time-management skills - Must be able to prioritize and meet deadlines