VP - Organic, Influencer and Paid Social - Partnerships

Location: New York

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* Job Description:

** The VP - Organic, Influencer and Paid Social - Partnerships will operate as a subject matter expert in our Next Gen Social offering, inclusive of paid social, organic social and creator/influencer, both internally and externally – and will be expected to operate across adjacent media channels, environmental contexts and disciplines. The core assignment of the role will be determining the partnership strategy for their specialism, negotiating and delivering partnership agreements against that strategy, and finally ensuring that these partnerships deliver against the core objectives: strategic, innovative, value-driven.

Reporting into the SVP, Entertainment Partnerships Lead, this role will be tasked with contributing their core objectives towards the overall partnership strategy and vision across all channels. You also need to be a subject matter in paid, influencer and organic social.

As a role that touches several capabilities within dentsu – from technology to media investment and activation, trading and planning/strategy – an ability to work with multiple stakeholders to create ‘win wins’ for all. This role will be expected to provide ongoing feedback to senior management on status and priority as well as to future-proof dentsu’s business by building innovative partnerships with key vendors.

This role will be a hybrid position, based in either New York, Los Angeles, or Chicago.
** Key Responsibilities
*** Own and lead a portfolio of relationships with social partners in the market, distributing pertinent information to management where needed across dentsu stakeholders.
* Using market intelligence, client feedback and collaboration across the core stakeholders (Amplifi, Investment & Activation, Agencies), to develop and execute a social partnership strategy for the year.
* Partner with senior leadership to identify new partnership opportunities to strengthen relationships with key vendors, anticipating critical needs of our business.
* Be a leader and subject-matter-expert in social within the Partnership community while embracing cross-channel strategy and representing other channels in partnership discussions.
* Work closely with Investment & Activation teams and Amplifi to ensure partnership approach meets the needs of our clients and value extraction goals.
* Work cohesively across dentsu media and dentsu creative to help drive aligned partnerships and go to market strategies across all aspects of social.
* Responsible for properly identifying and assessing commercial opportunity, ensuring opportunity is maximized and successfully delivered.
* Be seen as an integrator and problem solver both internally and externally driving partners and maintaining on-time engagement across several variables.
* Drive standards of excellence and consistency across the team, including reporting, ways of working, endeavor tracking and partnership compliance.
* Support the development of key Partnership themes and lead in external communications of these in market (panels, PR, articles), particularly in area of specialization.
* Liaise and partner with Product and Solutions organizations to facilitate partnership development and capability creation within dentsu.
* Provide consistent communication and organization of key partnership information to teams and management to capture all the nuanced detail of these commercial agreements and keep on track for deal progression. Including saving key information for easy distribution across the organization.
* Consult on client business to build custom partnership plans and subject-matter-expertise of partner landscape.
* Participate in new business as a social subject-matter-expert and/or Partnership leader on value proposition for potential client.
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* Qualifications:

*** 10-12 years’ social experience within the digital industry as a partnership or investment lead at a large agency or partner.
* 5+ years’ experience management of a team – with proven ability to lead a highly successful team.
* Consistent exceptional project management, ability to prioritize and meet deadlines.
* Excellent verbal and written communications, presentation, and analytical…