Strategy Director

You will be part of the specialist leadership team and sit on the management board within this well established boutique agency powerhouse. Building positive relationships with key stakeholders; the agency, the clients and the creative community alike. Our client prides itself on its ability to forge incredibly deep and trusting relationships with its clients - acting as an expert counsel and ally - enabling them to deliver the right work, and the best work, using a combination of internal skillsets and a curation of external experts and partners. You will play an integral part in delivering against their vision, building on the agency's success. The Role Work to understand the breadth and spectrum of clients and briefs our client is tasked with, building relationships with key clients, explore as many ways as possible to deliver incredible strategic thinking and direction that either capitalises on the big opportunities or gets smart about limitations. Personally deliver best in class strategic thinking across the portfolio of this well-respected agencies clients - from developing strategies, branding strategies and campaign/advertising, presenting and collaborating with clients, designing and implementing research projects, evaluating performance and inspiring creativity. Build a best-in-class portfolio of talented team of freelance strategists to support client projects delivery that you can lead and collaborate with, regardless of brief, and nurture this portfolio to ensure that their clients are receiving the high standard of work that sets the client and the agency, head-and-shoulders above. Manage and mentor junior team member, guide and champion - helping to build confidence, expand skills and experience, direct work and push the caliber of everything that's created. Be a champion for the work and the opportunity that lay ahead for the agency and their clients, helping to raise the profile of the agency, it's output through awards, networking and thought leadership.,

• Day-to-day leadership of junior strategist team members
• Deliver high-level strategic thinking and direction on key projects and oversee all strategic output for the agency.
• Ensure processes are continuously reviewed and in place to ensure we are working in the best way, to get to the best work
• Curating, leading and collaborating with best-in-class freelance strategists to support
• Working closely with the Founder, Creative and Client Services counterparts in the leadership of the agency and delivery of their vision
• Overseeing resource planning, estimating and casting of strategic briefs
• A mindful approach to commerciality & able to work to and manage tight deadlines
• Help to build deep and trusted relationships with our clients and develop new business opportunities and added value
This opportunity is not based in London but would suit someone that is based there, it just offers hybrid working with 2-4 days per month in the office, with further visits for meetings, or socials.