Agency Selection Consultant
This role leads and supports media agency selections for advertisers, from the first question of whether a pitch is even needed to the signed contract. Independent, paid by the advertiser, never by an agency. The process is the product: an honest brief, a real comparison, and an outcome that holds up.
What you'll do
- Lead or support agency selections, in a single market or dozens at once.
- Build the longlist from market knowledge and conversations, not from what has been published.
- Write briefs together with the client.
- Hold the response format that makes a real comparison possible.
- Assess presentations, case rounds and chemistry meetings.
- Prepare the commercial round and help make the contract watertight.
What you bring
- Broad experience in media, from the agency side, the advertiser side or as a consultant.
- A feel for process and for people: you see the difference between a team assembled for the pitch and the team that will do the work.
- You can hold a conversation that challenges an agency without breaking the relationship.
- Strong in writing, because the brief decides the outcome.
- You expect the tooling to do the comparing, so your time goes to the judgement.
What we offer
- A role entirely on the advertiser's side, without agency margins or conflicts of interest.
- Senior-level selections, in markets around the world.
- A small, senior team.
- Flexible working from our Amsterdam or Jakarta base, with room to work partly remotely.
How we hire
No panels, no black holes.
On pay: what we offer depends on what you bring and where you sit, so we set it per person rather than per band. Money comes up in the second conversation, with a real number, not a range you have to decode.
How it works: two conversations, both with the people you would actually work with, including the founder. The first is about you and about us. The second is about the work itself: we put an anonymised media file in front of you and talk through what you see. Terms follow that same round, once we both know what we are talking about. Then a decision, from us and from you. No panels, no assessments, no six-week silences.
Where you can be based: our team works from Amsterdam and from Jakarta, with room to work partly remotely. Our clients are worldwide, so for the right person we will look at other arrangements rather than rule them out.
On your application: everything you send us is treated the way we treat client documents: read by us, shared with no one, and used for nothing but this conversation. We read every application ourselves, and we get in touch when we see a fit. If you have not heard from us within two weeks, please take that as a no, with our thanks for the time you put in. We keep applications on file for three months and then delete them.
How to apply
Send your CV and a short note on why this role fits you. We respond within one working day, from a real person.
In your application, tell us clearly in which media markets you are genuinely proficient - the specific countries where you understand how media is planned, bought and reported. We pay close attention to where someone's market knowledge runs deep.
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