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# Chief Strategy Officer at WPP Media

- **Company:** WPP Media
- **Location:** Copenhagen, Denmark
- **Posted:** 2026-09-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/wppmedia/jobs/5419169008

## Job description

## About WPP Media

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. With exceptional talent, trusted data and intelligence, and world-class partnerships – all united by our pioneering agentic marketing platform, WPP Open – we help clients navigate change, capture opportunity, and deliver transformational growth.

WPP Media is WPP's AI-driven media operating unit, bringing together media, data, and partnerships to deliver creative personalisation at scale. Connected through WPP Open and powered by Open Intelligence, clients see exactly where, how, and why their media investment is working.

For more information, visit wppmedia.com.

Chief Strategy Officer at WPP Media

As Chief Strategy Officer, you will lead WPP Media Denmark’s Strategy & Marketing agenda and set the strategic direction for the agency’s market positioning, growth priorities, innovation agenda, and future capability development.

You will act as executive owner of the integrated strategy and innovation agenda, partnering closely with the CEO and Executive Leadership Team to translate business ambition into clear priorities, scalable propositions, and measurable commercial outcomes.

You will build strong client and industry relationships, strengthen WPP Media’s position as a strategic growth partner, and create the conditions for high-quality strategic work across disciplines, talent, standards, and technology.

## Key responsibilities

This is a senior leadership role for someone who can combine commercial impact, strategic excellence, and organizational transformation. Your primary responsibilities will be to;

- Set the vision, priorities, and operating agenda for Strategy & Marketing, aligned with WPP Media Denmark’s overall business strategy.
- Define and drive the growth strategy for WPP Media Denmark, including market opportunities, competitive advantages, future business models, and diversification of services.
- Own the strategic contribution to growth across net new business, retention, organic growth, pitch strategy, and development of new revenue streams.
- Act as executive sponsor and senior strategic partner for priority clients, pitches, and complex transformation opportunities.
- Lead market positioning, thought leadership, and key external relationships that strengthen WPP Media’s reputation and commercial opportunity.
- Champion the adoption of AI, WPP technology, WPP Open, and standardized frameworks to improve quality, speed, scalability, and differentiation.
- Drive collaboration across Client, Content, Data & Technology, Activation, Operations, and Marketing to deliver connected client solutions and enterprise-wide impact.
- Build and develop a high-performing team of senior strategy, growth, transformation, and marketing leaders, ensuring accountability, collaboration, talent development, and a strong succession pipeline.

## About you

We believe you are an experienced senior strategy and growth leader with a strong track record from media, marketing, communications, consulting, technology, or a related professional services environment. You have operated at executive level, led senior leaders and multi-disciplinary teams, and influenced business direction beyond your own function.

To succeed in this role, you need strong leadership skills, commercial acumen, excellent communication and presentation skills, and deep understanding of how media, data, technology, content, transformation, and client growth come together. You are motivated by building capability, developing people, shaping culture, and driving strategic transformation at scale.

More specifically, you have

- A proven ability to drive revenue growth, service diversification, client development, and new business performance.
- Strong knowledge of media, communications, data, technology, AI, and the evolving client growth agenda.
- Experience building and leading high-performing senior teams across strategy, growth, transformation, marketing, or related disciplines.
- The ability to establish best practice frameworks, methodologies, planning standards, and capability-building programs.
- Excellent senior stakeholder management, client relationship, communication, and presentation skills.
- Visible leadership style with strong judgment, accountability, collaboration skills, and the ability to develop future leaders and succession pipelines.

Life at WPP Media

Our passion for shaping the next era of media includes investing in our employees to help them do their best work, and we’re just as committed to employee growth as we are to responsible media investment. WPP Media employees can tap into the global WPP Media & WPP networks to pursue their passions, grow their networks, and learn at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising.

We offer an attractive benefits package, strong professional and social communities, modern office facilities in Copenhagen, and opportunities to develop through both local, Nordic, and global networks. You will become part of an ambitious and collaborative organization where people, data, technology, and creativity come together to create growth for our clients.

We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week.

Application

This is a full-time permanent position with a start date as soon as possible.

In addition to reviewing your CV and conducting interviews, our recruitment process may include a testing phase. Selection and interviews are ongoing, so please submit your application with your CV and cover letter as soon as possible.

If you have questions about the position, feel free to contact Talent Lead Johan Hillers at johan.hillers@wppmedia.com.

Due to GDPR, we do not accept applications via email.

Please read our [Privacy Notice](https://www.wppmedia.com/pages/privacy-policy#:~:text=WPP%20Media%20Privacy%20Notice%20for%20Recruitment) for more information on how we process the information you provide.

## About WPP Media

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: WPP Media is WPP's global media collective that combines AI, data, and creative to deliver intelligent growth for the world's leading brands.
- **Entity Type**: Division of Public Company (WPP plc – LSE: WPP, NYSE: WPP)
- **Headquarters**: New York, United States
- **Founded**: Not publicly available (parent WPP plc founded 1971; WPP Media formed as a unified media collective in recent years)
- **CEO**: Brian Lesser (CEO, WPP Media)

## Core Business
- **Industry**: Advertising Services, Media Planning & Buying, Marketing Technology
- **Target Customers**: B2B and B2C enterprise brands across all sectors; global clients include major Fortune 500 companies
- **Mission or Purpose Statement**: "Intelligent growth for the AI era" – helping brands harness data, AI, and media to drive measurable outcomes.

## Products & Services
- **Open Media Studio (OMS)**: An end-to-end media delivery platform integrated with WPP Open, enabling scaled creative, production, data, commerce, and personalized media execution. (SaaS/Platform)
- **Open Intelligence**: An AI-enabled data solution that unifies fragmented data across ecosystems into predictive marketing intelligence, supporting privacy-first activation. (Data & Analytics Platform)
- **Data and Technology Consulting**: Consulting services for data strategy, technology architecture, advanced analytics, audience insight, cloud integration, and platform adoption. (Service)
- **Media Management & Delivery**: Expert activation, smart investment, strategic partnerships, and proprietary media solutions powered by AI and advanced analytics for personalized advertising at global scale. (Service)
- **Service and Strategy**: Dedicated teams offering deep sector expertise, creative strategy, and business outcomes aligned with client goals. (Service)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed separately (parent WPP plc market cap approx. £8 billion as of July 2025)
- **Key Metric**: $65 billion in managed media annually (from wppmedia.com)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: WPP is publicly traded; works with hundreds of global brands including many Fortune 500 companies. Key technology partners include major cloud and AI providers.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 40,000+ media experts worldwide
  - 160 offices across 80+ markets
  - 1,600+ active job postings (LinkedIn, July 2025) with +8.7% monthly job growth
  - Strong investment in AI-first capabilities and privacy-forward data unification

## Competitive Advantages
- **Scale**: One of the largest media buying organizations globally, managing $65B in media.
- **AI Integration**: End-to-end platform (OMS + Open Intelligence) deeply embedded with AI for predictive analytics, automation, and personalization.
- **Integrated Ecosystem**: Unique ability to unify media, data, creative, production, and commerce under one roof.
- **Global Reach**: 40k+ experts in 80+ markets providing local insights with global execution.
- **WPP Network**: Access to 100,000+ experts across WPP's integrated agency network.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-Driven Growth**: Embedding AI across all capabilities to deliver smarter, faster, more measurable outcomes.
- **Privacy-First Data Unification**: Building Open Intelligence as a secure, cross-ecosystem data platform that respects consumer privacy.
- **Talent Development**: Investing in AI-enabled learning frameworks and internal mobility to future-proof skills.
- **Sustainability & Inclusion**: Part of WPP's broader commitment to building better futures for people, planet, clients, and communities.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as open, optimistic, and extraordinary – with emphasis on collaboration, innovation, and challenging the status quo.
- **Growth**: AI-enabled learning framework, cross-team mobility across WPP’s global network of 100k+ experts.
- **Work Environment**: Hybrid/office-based roles across 160 offices; global opportunities in 80+ markets.
- **Perks**: Competitive compensation, performance-based rewards, access to cutting-edge AI tools, and work with leading global brands.
- **Team**: Join a collective of 40k+ media experts, data scientists, technologists, and creatives.

## Sources
1. [wppmedia.com](https://www.wppmedia.com/)
2. [WPP Media Company Info](https://www.wppmedia.com/company-info)
3. [WPP Media Careers](https://www.wppmedia.com/careers)
4. [WPP Media – What We Do](https://www.wppmedia.com/what-we-do)
5. [WPP Media LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/wpp-media)
6. [WPP Media Greenhouse Careers](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/wppmedia)

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