SVP, Strategy

About the role

Lead pitch strategy, write the agency's core strategic response, craft dentsu X's agency positioning, operate with confidence and quality at speed, challenge and sharpen contributions from across the agency, and ensure there is a red thread through the presentation across all disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategic narrative in pitch presentations.
• Own the room with a story that is confident, inspiring, and impossible to ignore.
• Command the attention of senior client stakeholders through storytelling that connects insight to ambition.
• Create clarity and momentum in ambiguous, fast-moving pitch environments where priorities and timelines shift quickly.
• Operate with confidence and quality at speed - thriving under the fast turnaround timelines that define competitive pitching.
• Challenge and sharpen contributions from across the agency, pushing for integration and coherence rather than a collection of separate answers.
• Be the connective tissue between disciplines: a brilliant collaborator who earns trust quickly and holds teams to a shared vision under pressure.
• Ensure there is a red thread through the presentation across all disciplines, tying back to why dentsu X is right for a client.
• Represent dentsu X's strategic ambition and voice at the highest level of new business.

Requirements

15+ years of experience in media, Lead a new business pitch from start to finish, be comfortable leading executives and guiding CMO level clients to solutions, articulate clearly and concisely the complex, as our industry has become increasingly technology driven, proven leadership skills and ability to interact with all levels of the organization, foster strong cross-functional teamwork and results, desire to learn new skills and link different aspects of the business, ability to think strategically, creatively, practically and commercially, someone who can see the big picture but can articulate the all-important detail, exceptional presentation skills, written and oral communication, passion to drive business forward and a team player, has participated in new business development and pitches, client-facing experience, strong managerial skills.

Qualifications

Exceptional presentation skills, written and oral communication, passion to drive business forward and a team player, has participated in new business development and pitches, client-facing experience, strong managerial skills.

Skills

Exceptional presentation skills, written and oral communication, passion to drive business forward and a team player, has participated in new business development and pitches, client-facing experience, strong managerial skills.

Benefits

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance
• Life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• 401(k)
• Flexible paid time off
• At least 15 paid holidays per year
• Paid sick and safe leave
• Paid parental leave

Pay

The annual base salary range for this position is $197,225 - $250,000. Placement within the salary range is based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and other factors permitted by law.

Schedule

This position is eligible for discretionary incentive compensation. Employees who live within a commutable distance of one of our hub offices, currently located in Chicago, metro Detroit, Los Angeles, and New York City, are required and expected to work from the office three days per week (two days per week for employees based in Los Angeles).