Global Partnerships Director

Global Partnerships Director

About Dentsu Dentsu is an integrated growth and transformation partner to the world's leading organisations. Founded in 1901 in Tokyo, Japan, and now operating in approximately 120 countries and regions, we bring together the power of a global network of leadership brands to deliver impactful, end-to-end growth solutions. Through our client promise, Innovating to Impact, we drive growth through integrated services across Media, Customer Experience Management (CXM), and Creative.

Our business transformation (BX) mindset, combined with a focus on experience transformation (EX), drives sustainable growth for brands, people, and society. Our commitment to innovation, collaboration, and diversity enables us to continuously evolve, pushing boundaries while delivering measurable impact in a fast-changing world.

This role sits within dentsu’s Strategic Partner Innovation team, part of Global Partnerships and Integrated Solutions, and acts as the strategic bridge between enterprise technology partners, dentsu’s product ecosystem and client demand. The role is responsible for identifying, shaping and commercialising product, capability and solution opportunities across key enterprise partners, including Amazon, Google and Meta. Working cross-practice with Data & Technology, Product and specialist practitioners, the role will connect partner product roadmaps with client needs and dentsu’s global product development strategy, leading the mobilisation of globally scalable capabilities and new IP that support dentsu’s Media++ strategy, enhance client experiences and drive material commercial growth.

The role requires deep knowledge of commerce, the Amazon and Google ecosystems (cloud / media) and their underlying capabilities, alongside a strong understanding of the broader media partner landscape. It will play a central role in developing the integrated solutions and capabilities that enable dentsu to win in the algorithmic era. The role reports to the Senior Director, Global Partnerships and Solutions and can be based in London or Manchester, operating under hybrid working arrangements.

Own the product and partnership strategies for key enterprise partners, developing a holistic view of product and capability opportunities with depth across Amazon, Google and their commerce, media, data and cloud ecosystems. Work closely with Global Practice Leads, client leadership and media/product specialists to identify, shape and mobilise capability, solution and product development opportunities. Connect partner product roadmaps, emerging capabilities and strategic priorities with client needs and dentsu’s global product strategy.

Build strong relationships with enterprise platform partners, markets and internal stakeholders, creating the executive alignment and joint commitment required to progress shared opportunities. Translate changes in platform strategy, client needs and market dynamics into differentiated products, integrated solutions and scalable capabilities. Develop compelling product propositions, business cases and commercial pathways that create value for dentsu, its clients and platform partners.

Explore emerging opportunities across commerce, retail media, cloud, AI, AdTech, Mar Tech, measurement and automation, helping dentsu move early where there is potential to innovate or create new value. Bring deep expertise across Amazon and Google while considering Meta, the broader enterprise partner landscape and the technologies and platforms shaping future client needs. Connect strategic partnership opportunities with clear product roadmaps and commercial delivery models, working with teams across Product, Commercial, D&T and Legal…