Head of Digital – Advertising Agency | The Gulf Recruitment Group Dubai, UAE
The Role
A leading global advertising agency is looking for a Digital Director/Head of Digital to join their Dubai office. The role is crucial to the agency’s development, ensuring that digital media is central to all their pitches and projects, and is viewed as important a channel as traditional media. This requires educating both internally and externally, being heavily involved in pitches and presentations, pushing the digital aspect in every brief.
Requirements
Reporting to the Managing Director the successful candidate will work closely with the strategic planning team, implementing digital strategies across the agency’s diverse range of high profile clients.
They are looking for someone with a real driving passion for all things digital who is able to infect others with their enthusiasm and reinvigorate the agencies digital offering.
This is a key role with a leading name and will need a high calibre candidate to fill the brief.
Before you apply please make sure you match all the requirements:
-Digital evangelist, as passionate about social media and digital ideas as they are experienced in websites and banners.
-Articulate and entrepreneurial.
-A leader, able to build and manage teams.
-Proven digital track record, ideally with an advertising agency.
Arabic language skills and Middle East are not a prerequisite for this role, though obviously nice to have, what’s more important is that you are passionate about the importance of digital in connecting with customers, and have a track record of creating innovative digital solutions.
