President, Amplifi North America

Location: New York

* Be the escalation point and senior business and investment advisor to our clients.
* Engage and generate with key industry events, partners and initiatives that stimulate demand for dentsu group services and agencies.
* Growing existing client and supplier relationships with a focus on the latter as the key stakeholder for supply-side partnerships across dentsu media and its agencies in the market.
* New business and organic growth within the media practice and integrated solutions.
* Design, Implementation and scaling of existing and new business models that deliver value for all.
* Financial planning and delivery across annual targets and across the Mid-term Management plan ‘MTMP). The financial responsibility of the role is focused on the North American revenue across the media investment (implementational planning and activation/media buying), principal & proprietary solutions and the existing trading, performance and specialist channel related; service based, business(es)/models.
* Design and implementation of key account investment strategies that deliver against the client’s business requirements and therefore its marketing objectives through the agency.
* Enablement of the media ++ strategy through the consolidated investment strategies of delivering media and ultimately business outcomes for our clients.
* Supporting the renewal and new business efforts across the agency with proactive investment leadership.
* Delivering a market and industry leadership POV that stimulates demand for the agency and network services
* Client value delivery Including but not limited to:
Productivity and pricing commitments, Principal-based media efficiencies, and Proprietary solutions that drive increased marketing effectiveness
* Delivery of the partner-based investment targets, partner compliance, and strategic priorities
* Responsible for deploying P&P strategy across the agency client portfolio, including target setting and delivery tracking.
* Supporting the agency leadership to deploy the integrated solutions that are required to deliver client marketing requirements and the agency P&L across the mid-term management plan
* Work with the Business Development and Growth community to pitch, win, retain, and prospect new business. Lead the Amplifi elements of the new business pipeline and pitch co-ordination as required.
* Upscale capability of Amplifi team to remain competitive in pitches and deliver a compelling response for each opportunity.  Provide clear direction, ambition and empowerment to successfully assimilate new opportunities at speed.
* Support the identification, development, and funding requirements via effective budgeting or investment cases for opex, capex, and working capital that is required to deliver against the MTMP.
* Working with the media practice lead and the Global President, Amplifi to ensure that the vision, strategy and deliverables of the MTMP for media are delivered.
* Recognized industry leader with a track record of delivering substantial new business and client growth.
* Proven ability to manage a trading book, develop new revenue streams and to extract value from media partners
* Proven leader with deep expertise in all aspects of product development and business transformation
* Track record of identifying and fostering talent and building high-performance teams.
* Deep understanding of the full media experience of brand and performance, including content
* Adept at understanding the mechanics of local, multi-market, regional and global clients in media.
* Substantial experience with all media income streams and media income diversification.
* Understands how to deliver through and with others in a way that motivates and drives high performance.
* Experience of winning, delivering and retaining clients.
* Digitally savvy and experienced, with a passion for new technology.
* Expert networking skills to generate new business leads as well as internally in matrix management to leverage the capabilities across our wider network.
* High influencing skills and high client effectiveness.
* Change agent both internally and externally.
* Strong track record of delivering growth through an ability…