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The Opportunity
We are working with a leading global media planning agency in Dubai who are looking to appoint a Head of Performance Media to lead and scale their performance capability across key regional and global clients. This is a senior leadership role for a performance specialist who can balance hands‑on excellence, strategic vision, and team leadership, acting as a trusted advisor to both clients and internal stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities- Own and lead the agency's performance media function across Paid Search, Paid Social, Programmatic, Display, Video, and emerging performance channels.
- Set the performance media vision and roadmap, ensuring best‑in‑class planning, activation, and optimisation.
- Act as the senior performance lead on high‑profile global and regional accounts, driving measurable business outcomes.
- Partner closely with planning, strategy, data, tech, and creative teams to deliver integrated media solutions.
- Build, mentor, and develop a high‑performing performance team, including managers and specialists.
- Oversee budgets, forecasting, and performance reporting, ensuring efficiency, scalability, and ROI.
- Lead client conversations around growth, innovation, attribution, and measurement frameworks.
- Stay ahead of market trends, platform developments, and automation opportunities within performance media.
- 10+ years' experience within performance media, ideally from a global media agency environment.
- Proven leadership experience, managing and scaling multi‑channel performance teams.
- Deep expertise across Paid Search, Paid Social, Programmatic, and Performance Display/Video.
- Strong understanding of data, analytics, attribution models, and measurement frameworks.
- Experience working on large‑scale, complex client accounts, ideally regional or global.
- Commercially minded, with the ability to drive growth, upsell performance solutions, and protect margin.
- Strategic thinker with a hands‑on performance mindset.
- Confident client‑facing leader, able to influence senior stakeholders.
- Highly analytical, results‑driven, and data‑led.
- Collaborative leader who can operate within a fast‑paced, matrixed global agency environment.
- Passionate about innovation, automation, and the future of performance media.
- Competitive senior‑level salary.
- Performance bonus.
- Full UAE benefits.
- Clear progression within a globally recognised agency network.
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