Strategy Director

We are looking for an experienced Strategy Director to join our team. 

This role sits on the crossroads of various marketing disciplines, from brand strategy, business strategy, digital innovation and organisational design. We don’t expect you to be a deep expert in each of these areas, but are looking for talent that can comfortably switch across some of these areas and thrive with a bit of ambiguity thrown in. 

You’ll be working across a number of brands, getting exposure to industries from tech, to fashion, FMCG and beyond.

In your role as a principal strategist, the aim is that you gradually evolve into the key contact and lead for some of our most important clients. This means that you’ll be tasked on both running and overseeing existing projects as well as nurture new projects and business from these accounts. 

What you can bring to the party

Ultimately we need someone who gets how successful brands operate in today’s technologically and social driven world. It doesn’t mean you have to be a digital nerd but a very good grasp of how consumer behaviour is shifting will be critical. A fascination for business, technology and culture is a head start.

We need someone who is not a jargon monkey and who can articulate solutions in simple and precise ways. Who can write compelling arguments as well as present to a room full of executives.

You will need to bring a sound attitude to the team and be willing to truly get stuck into problems and navigate clever ways through them.

We tend to be drawn to people who aren’t cookie cutter, who have an interesting edge about them. We like a little flavour and character in the team. We all learn from each other and would love to equally learn from you.  

The formal bits

Experience

• At least 6-8 years experience in innovation consulting, marketing, strategy and planning (or similar)
• Managing and motivating more junior members of a team
• Forging relationships with key clients
• Charting an approach to solving a problem or project and managing it to delivery

Skills 

• Articulate storyteller (presenting arguments and strategies in engaging ways)
• Comfortable and natural presenter
• Deep understanding of how changes in culture, technology and commerce are impacting human behaviour
• Able to reframe problems revealing new ways to solve/approach them
• Able to synthesise data and articulate findings simply
• Able to articulate the business and organisational implications of proposed solutions
• Understand marketing and brand theory like the back of your hand
• Able to conceive and manage a project plan through to delivery, Including managing internal and external stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Be the project lead on projects of scale
• Manage a team (managing up and down)
• Lead and grow client relationships
• Design, prepare and lead collaborative workshops
• Explore, conceive, develop and implement new solutions, both short-term and long-term
• Develop and finetune set of strategic tools in key areas
• Write reports and presentations
• Craft, hone and evaluate marketing briefs