Head of Media

DEPT® is a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, our 4,000+ specialists deliver growth invention services across Brand & Media, Experience, Commerce, CRM, and Technology & Data. We’re 50|50 tech and marketing, partner-led, and first to move. Clients include Google, Lufthansa, Meta, eBay, and OpenAI. We have been certified B Corp and Climate Neutral since 2021. JOB PURPOSE As our Head of Media, Nearshore you will be leading all our Media craft teams on innovation, quality and output, ranging from all our digital media, organic, CRM and data teams in our nearshore teams. You are expected to be the local face of our proposition both internally and externally. You challenge the team members and support them by facilitating an environment where all team members can get the best out of themselves in terms of their professional career and growth as well as deliverables for the clients. WHAT IS NEARSHORE Our clients sit in the UK & Ireland, Benelux and DACH. Our Media talent doesn't have to. Nearshore is how we bring the two together: teams based in Spain, Croatia, North Macedonia and Hungary, embedded directly into client projects and working side by side with colleagues in the client's home market. Same teams, same standards, same ambition, just a smarter mix of locations. Today that's around 65 Media specialists, and we're scaling fast. You'll lead that growth: building the team, shaping the most efficient staffing model together with our onshore Heads of Media, and putting nearshore talent firmly on the map across EMEA. This isn't a back-office. It's where a growing share of our best Media work gets made, and you'll be the one steering it. WHAT YOU’LL DO Lead our nearshore Media craft teams on innovation, quality and output, and grow the team as nearshore takes on a larger share of our delivery. Significantly grow our nearshore Media team and strengthen the structures and scalability This is part of our strategy to significantly increase the share of work delivered by nearshore locations. You align with the various stakeholders to balance growth of the team on one hand, and profitability in service on the other Happy Clients: Ensure the technical delivery and quality of the work is on par with client expectations and integrated with the EMEA Media delivery. Happy DEPT®: Seamless collaboration between your team and their respective project teams across EMEA, and align with Resource Management and EMEA leads on the allocation of resources, in order to account for healthy utilization.. Happy Depsters: Ensure individual growth of your team members, and balance individual needs with organizational requirements, in order to develop the talents - and our service. Lead complex international client projects within your specific area of expertise within Media. You deliver the work together with your team - from…