Creative Strategy Director

Description:

As a strategy director, you will lead and inspire teams to develop innovative strategies that lead to world-bending concepts and ideas. You play a strategic leadership role on your accounts and develop and lead the plan of attack for strategy for your teams. You know how to lead with gravitas across all agency departments and with clients, and teams rely on your compelling POVs and strategies. You drive organic growth on your accounts and work as a trusted adviser who knows how to drive business outcomes. You help nourish and foster the strategy team, with an eye for personal interests and growth needs of the agency. You are a trusted advisor with key senior clients, strategy lead for accounts and a leader of multidisciplinary teams.

We recognize that diversity and inclusion benefit our agency, our clients, and the communities in which we work and live. To that end, we strongly encourage applications from women, people of color, members of the LGBTQ community, veterans, and individuals with disabilities. As part of our ongoing effort to be the world’s most inclusive agency, we are committed to seeking candidates who possess and demonstrate a profound interest in furthering our DE&I goals.

Responsibilities

Strategy Skills
 

• Lead and develop brand, creative and communications strategies independently.
• Write platform-level creative briefs and lead the workstreams to get to Bend the World work.
• Proactively act as a client steward and brand guardian, sounding the alarm when work or assignments are off brand.
• Get ahead of clients with POVs that move brands ahead.
• Identify opportunities for more original research, analyses, audience profiles and intelligence.
   

Relationships
 

• Partner closely with creative directors, account leaders, and senior TGI and M+P leads; build a culture of creativity within the agency.
• Be a respected and authoritative voice for senior clients, as a reference point for all things strategy and business
• Participate in deep, thoughtful conversations with senior clients about any part of their business.
• Advocate for great ideas in reviews and push for greatness
• Keep a team of strategists, partners and clients focused, on task and excited about their role in complex initiatives
• Manage junior planners and mentor other strategists, creating opportunities for people around you.
• Get the most out of individuals and teams and create a space for everyone to do their best work.
   

Communication
 

• Lead client meetings and workshops and command presence in the room
• Identify opportunities to improve presentation and story craft on client accounts
• Collaborate with creatives on the best methods for briefing and inspiration
• Actively seek opportunities to contribute to agency thought leadership
   

Qualifications
 

• Own the strategy and creative briefs on healthcare client accounts and creative projects
• Develop original insights and compelling briefs that push the team to greatness
• 10+ years of creative agency experience; relevant experience in brand and creative strategy