Strategy Director (Brand)

We’re Re, an agency working at the intersection of brand and experience design. We create brands that connect with culture, customers and colleagues. We help brands do this by combining data science, design thinking and creative magic.

We believe branding is more than just design. Branding is about owning a big idea, embedding it at the heart of the organisation and enabling it to come to life across all touch points and channels. Done well, branding has the power to change the course of things, forever.

The Opportunity

To be a strategic leader in the business by taking the strategic lead on several accounts in the agency. Responsible for developing brilliant customer centric solutions for your accounts and on new business.

Building strong relationships with your clients to help them define and overcome business problems and harness the opportunities presented.

The role straddles the day to day strategy on your accounts and drives their longer term vision, as well as working closely with other team members to unlock new opportunities for the group.

A Snapshot Of What You'll Do

Raise and maintain an exceptional standard for strategic thinking and creative solutions for your accounts; being a go-to leader for team members for your accounts
Develop strong partnerships with your clients, senior and day to day, by becoming an indispensable partner in helping them overcome challenges and identify opportunities
Take ownership for improving the integration and quality of thinking in your area of specialism across the team and agency
Embed new methods and tools onto your accounts, including finding opportunities to bring in our newer strategic capabilities to unlock greater customer value
Mentor and develop the strategic skills of the strategists supporting you on your accounts and the team more broadly
Share your strategic skills, insights and thought-leadership with the wider agency, as part of internal learning and development and in an informal nature on your accounts
Lead the strategic thinking for pitches/new business opportunities where required
Partner with the Head of Strategy to drive an integrated and collaborative culture with the Creative and Account Services teams
Foster collaborative relationships with other departments within the agency and across the broader M&C Saatchi Group
Plus much more!

Your Ideal Experience

At least 7 years’ experience in brand, insight or communications planning strategy experience
Proven success in growing business - be it organic growth of existing clients, as well as identifying and converting new client opportunities
A strategic thinker with the ability to see the bigger picture and bring the required pieces of the puzzle together
Strong presentation skills, able articulate your strategy and the impact it will have on a broader scale
Analytical mindset and the ability to analyse information to inform your decision making

M&C Saatchi Group Ambition

As part of the M&C Saatchi Group we come together to realise BIG AMBITIONS. And ours is to be the most connected creative company by organising original thinkers in uncommon ways.

We’re committed to building a diverse workplace and strongly encourage applications from First Nations people, people with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, mature age workers and LGBTQIA+ people. Our flexible work approach, employee-led diversity networks and inclusive career development approach all support and promote one of our core values ‘Walk in Different Worlds’ which helps describe our overall DE&I mission. If you require any adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please let our team know.

We celebrate people who embrace our values and BIG AMBITIONS.

What WE Value MOST

Walk in different worlds
Make Uncommon Sense
Run Towards the Fire (except if there is an actual fire when we run away from it)
Roll as one
Be excellent to each other

WHAT ARE YOUR BIG AMBITIONS?

We’d love to hear what your ambitions are and how we can help you realise them with us!

M&C Saatchi Group

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