Remote Strategy Director

Summary

Join OLIVER as a Strategy Director to drive business impact, lead strategic practice development, and build brand platforms for clients. As part of The Brandtech Group, you'll partner with senior creative leadership in a collaborative environment to win new business and manage strategic development for top brands.

Requirements

• Relevant qualification
• Interest in and aptitude for creative business and marketing solutions
• Minimum of ten years experience TTL strategy experience in integrated, brand and digital communications
• Ability to identify strategic needs, lead all aspects of planning with sound business recommendations, and generate alignment with key business partners
• A talent for telling great stories—verbally and visually—and able to deliver insights about people and behaviour in a way that generates empathy, emotion, and engagement
• Demonstrate strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent presentation skills that encompass clear, compelling communications
• Track record of experience managing and mentoring with high integrity and the ability to inspire others
• Experience navigating large and complex organizations, including gaining access to key executives and stakeholders and successfully managing relationship building dynamics and processes
• Ability to manage multiple business initiatives in an entrepreneurial environment
• Expert knowledge of all functional agency departments, capabilities and service areas
• Deep understanding of a wide range of industries, markets and brands, and what it takes to stand out and service them
• Self-motivated and willing to expand knowledge

Responsibilities

• Help create and maintain relationships with existing and potential clients
• Develop strategic solutions and plans that best fit the agency and clients' needs
• Create brand identities through research and applying experience to uncover an in-depth knowledge of the organizational process, competitive threats and opportunities of a client's business
• Manage the campaign measurement process to ensure that clients and agency are aligned on key performance metrics
• Establish realistic business goals, provide accountability through reporting and analytics, and providing optimized strategies moving forward
• Ensure that the agency provides a strategic anchor for our multidisciplinary team
• Innovator and influencer level communications
• Deliver a consistently superior creative product
• Work that is strategic and above all creative
• Partner with the Creative Director in providing inspiration for the Creative Department
• Take a lead role in generating ideas and content for corporate positioning around ‘Behavioral change’ within new business and marketing materials as well as in presentations
• Play a lead role in creating an evolved new strategic / planning process and help educate the agency (to develop consumer experience as an integral part of the agency)
• Leading the charge to create and champion our own original strategic ideas
• Managing and mentoring other strategists and rising strategy talent
• Serving as both an anchor and springboard for the other strategic capabilities: Marketing, Media & Strategy & Data Analysis
• Acting as Guardian angel for Relationship Leads, a trusted partner to Clients, and an ally for New Business
• Act as strategic lead and oversee all accounts – understand the business situation and challenges, set the strategic vision, and proactively surface opportunities
• Uncover actionable and powerful insights that drive innovative ideas and inspire creative
• Act as a brand architect to craft inspiring briefs and lay out actionable roadmaps to lead agency and clients to creative business solutions
• Develop fresh insights to understand the brand, category, culture and audience
• Play an active role as subject matter expert on integrated communications planning, helping to plan the consumer journey through brand interactions within the digital/social ecosystem and beyond
• Apply research skills and methodologies to create relevant, breakthrough customer insights and identify omni-channel opportunities
• Manage the Strategy group and plan, assign, direct, and prioritise strategy work