Vice President, New Stream Media
About The Position
The Vice President, Commerce & Retail Media serves as the strategic and operational leader for our core Retail Media clients. This role is responsible for helping our clients scale as a high-performing retail media business by driving revenue growth, strengthening client partnerships, improving operational efficiency, and advancing innovation across Retail Media, Enterprise Media, and Loyalty. Acting as a day-to-day executive partner to client leadership, the VP will translate strategic business priorities into scalable operating models, high-performing teams, and exceptional client outcomes to drive continued innovation. Working closely with the Senior Vice President to guide our clients through a period of rapid growth and transformation while ensuring alignment across dentsu teams and capabilities.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in retail media, media strategy, digital advertising, consulting, or related fields
- 5+ years of experience directly within retail media, grocery retail preferred
- Experience leading large-scale client relationships and executive stakeholder engagement
- Strong knowledge of retail media monetization, enterprise marketing, audience strategy, and advertiser needs
- Demonstrated success driving revenue growth, operational transformation, and organizational change
- Experience working across cross-functional teams and complex client organizations
- Excellent leadership, communication, and strategic planning skills
- Familiarity with media platforms, retail media technologies, measurement solutions, and retail data ecosystems
Responsibilities
- Serve as the senior strategic advisor to client leadership
- Build executive-level client relationships and lead strategic planning efforts
- Drive retail media revenue growth through enhanced go-to-market strategies, advertiser engagement, and new monetization opportunities
- Identify opportunities to expand client’s portfolio of commerce media capabilities
- Evangelize the New Stream Media offering in dentsu, meet with client leads to proactively solution partnerships and new advertiser endeavors
- Champion innovation across audience strategy, measurement, AI, automation, and media technology
- Bring emerging industry trends and best practices to our client teams
- Lead initiatives focused on retail media growth, operating model evolution, and business transformation
- Partner with Group Directors to develop scalable operating models, processes, and governance frameworks
- Partner with Program Leadership, Account Management, Analytics, and Operations teams to improve efficiency and execution
- Drive automation and workflow improvements that support long-term growth
- Align Retail Media, Enterprise Media, Loyalty, Analytics, Data, and Creative teams around common goals
- Leverage the full breadth of dentsu capabilities to drive client success and business growth
- Support new business opportunities, strategic initiatives, and capability expansion efforts
- Direct management of the agency RMN support teams across Account Management and Media Operations
- Lead and mentor a high-performing cross-functional team
- Build capabilities, develop future leaders, and foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and collaboration
- Partner with NSM leadership on organizational planning and talent development
Benefits
- Medical, vision, and dental insurance
- Life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance
- 401k
- Flexible paid time off
- At least 15 paid holidays per year
- Paid sick and safe leave
- Paid parental leave
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
Education Level
No Education Listed
