Strategy Director

2 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom McCann Central Full time

We’re recruiting a Strategy Director to play a leading role in developing fame-generating and highly effective campaigns for some of the UK and Europe’s best-known brands.

Who we are:

This role will be supporting McCann Birmingham, the UK’s #1 Creative Community.

We believe the future of creativity is community driven. A community that not only sits within our 250-strong integrated team - covering  brand advertising, below the line, media planning & buying, PR & social, research, digital, direct and data -  but expands to the international network we’re part of and the diverse and unique city we’re proud to call home. We celebrate collaboration and creativity, always keeping effectiveness at the forefront of everything we do.


Where you fit in:

Balancing commercial awareness with creative thinking, you’ll play a leading role in shaping business, brand and creative strategy for our clients. As a trusted advisor for clients and a respected strategy leader within the agency, you’ll have an in-depth understanding of effectiveness principles, knowing your Byron from you Binet and your Ritson from your Ries & Trout. And you’ll have a keen eye for brilliant creative and be able to reference the latest and greatest ads.

On the day to day, you’ll work closely with our creative and business leadership teams to drive our client’s business through the delivery of effective and inspiring strategy. You’ll be an engaging presenter and a natural collaborator, building relationships with creative teams and business leadership to deliver the best work in the most seamless way. 


Responsibilities will include:

  • Leading on high-level brand and communication/channel strategies
  • Researching, devising creative briefs and actively guiding creative work
  • Accurately defining and scoping strategy projects while fostering excellent relationships with the internal team and client
  • Operating as a strategic advisor internally and externally with colleagues and clients
  • Championing channel-agnostic thinking, including new technologies and platforms
  • Leading marketing effectiveness

We are operating a hybrid working policy, meaning that we require three days a week with weekly presence in the McCann Birmingham office - details of this to be discussed as part of the application process. 


As Strategy Director You’ll Bring:

  • Proven experience devising and delivering complex strategies for major  brands
  • Breadth of experience across brand,  creative  and communications strategy.
  • A skilled collaborator with excellent relationship building skills, both internally and externally.
  • The ability to clearly communicate ideas that inspire, both verbally and written.
  • Confident working with data and multiple research platforms, distilling what you find into actionable findings.

Benefits

In addition to a competitive salary, we are committed to creating a brilliant environment for all our people. This includes benefits such as 25 days holiday, plus 3 additional collective shutdown days, enhanced pension contributions, private health, life assurance and much more.

A culture of learning and development is also central to our ethos, so you’ll have access to industry leading training and development programmes.

Most importantly, you’ll be part of a fun and collaborative team and you’ll work in an environment where you are supported and developed.


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