Assistant Lead, Digital Strategy & Solutions

The Assistant Lead, Digital Strategy & Solutions plays a critical role in shaping, delivering, and scaling digital initiatives across MediaCorp's digital ecosystem. This role sits at the intersection of strategy, product, technology, and business, supporting the Lead in driving high-impact digital solutions while owning end-to-end delivery of key workstreams.

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can think strategically, execute pragmatically, and influence across functions in a media organisation.

Why This Role Matters

This role is pivotal in turning MediaCorp's digital ambitions into real, measurable outcomes. You'll work on initiatives that shape how millions of audience's experience advertising content, how platforms scale, and how digital capabilities evolve across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy & Planning

• Support the development of digital strategies, roadmaps, and solution frameworks aligned to MediaCorp's business priorities (content, audience growth, monetisation, data, and platforms).

• Translate high-level strategy into clear problem statements, business cases, and actionable initiatives.

• Conduct market, platform, and capability assessments to identify gaps, opportunities, and scalability levers.

Solution Development & Delivery

• Own and lead end-to-end delivery of assigned digital initiatives from discovery and definition through to launch and optimisation.

• Work closely with product, engineering, data, UX, and vendors to design and implement scalable digital solutions.

• Ensure solutions are user-centric, commercially viable, and technically feasible.

Stakeholder & Cross-Functional Management

• Act as a key liaison between business units, technology teams, content, and Partnerships.

• Facilitate workshops, alignment sessions, and decision forums to drive clarity and momentum.

• Manage stakeholder expectations while balancing speed, quality, and long-term sustainability.

Performance & Optimisation

• Define success metrics, track performance, and drive continuous improvement post-launch.

• Use data and insights to inform decisions, prioritisation, and iteration.

• Identify risks early and proactively manage dependencies and trade-offs.

Team & Capability Building

• Mentor junior team members and contribute to building strong strategy and delivery capability within the team.

• Support the Lead in shaping team ways of working, frameworks, and best practices.

• Step in as a trusted deputy when required, representing the function in forums and discussions.

Qualifications

Experience

• 6-9 years of experience in digital planning, product management, adtech, or digital transformation, preferably within media, technology, or platform-based organisations.

• Proven experience delivering complex, cross-functional digital initiatives end-to-end.

• Exposure to media platforms, OTT, adtech, martech, audience analytics, or large-scale digital ecosystems is a strong advantage.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong strategic thinking with the ability to move quickly into execution.

• Solid understanding of digital products, platforms, and solution design.

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills able to influence without authority.

• Structured problem-solver who is comfortable with ambiguity and evolving priorities.

• Data-literate, with the ability to use insights to drive decisions.

• Confident facilitator, presenter, and storyteller.

Personal Attributes

• Proactive, ownership-driven, and comfortable operating with autonomy.

• Calm under pressure and able to navigate complexity.

• Collaborative, grounded, and pragmatic

• Genuinely curious about media, audiences, and how digital creates impact at scale.