Strategy Director

Elmwood Brand Consultancy

Strategy Director defining, leading, and delivering large strategy projects for a globally recognised brand design consultancy. Empowering clients with impactful strategic solutions in London and beyond.

Posted 6/23/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define, lead and deliver large strategy projects and workstreams for clients.
Connect business strategy to brand and creative strategy, ensuring high-quality solutions.
Inspire design solutions that drive commercial impact.
Lead collaborative sessions that generate ideas and inspire teams.
Work closely with clients and design project leads to ensure effective delivery of strategic outcomes.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Deliver high-quality strategic solutions that connect business strategy to brand and creative strategy, inspiring design solutions that drive commercial impact.
Bring a confident and highly experienced strategic skill set spanning insight mining to opportunity mapping; consumer journeys to portfolio architecture; creative strategy development to packaging hierarchy.
Demonstrate deep understanding of client audiences, categories, objectives, priorities - transforming insight into ideas with intent.
Present with confidence and conviction at all levels, bringing strategic narratives to life
Lead workshops and collaborative sessions that inspire teams, generate ideas and help clients to think diﬀerently
Provoke new thinking, proactively identifying the future agenda for our clients and leading discussions on next
Work in partnership with the client and design project leads to direct beautiful, eﬀective work that delivers results for our clients.
Inputs into creation of new platforms or processes that create opportunity and elevate our strategic output
Ensure that every strategy workstream is set up to achieve our creative and commercial ambitions
Develop a strategic expertise that becomes a signature capability for Elmwood
Bring a T-shaped attitude – balancing left brain organisation with right brain creativity

Benefits

Comp & perks

Hybrid working with flexi start/end time (8-10am / 4-6pm)
A vibrant studio space in the heart of Covent Garden with unlimited tea/coffee, fruit baskets, showers, bicycle storage etc
26 days annual leave + wellbeing days + 3 additional days over Christmas & New Year + Enhanced parental leave
Workcation (work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year)
Private health insurance
Wellbeing initiatives like subsidised Gym, Physio Sessions, GP Services, Life Coaching
Apple MAC and iPhone hardware

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Hard Skills & Tools

strategic project deliveryinsight miningopportunity mappingconsumer journey mappingportfolio architecturecreative strategy developmentpackaging hierarchy

Soft Skills

leadershipcollaborationinspirationpresentation skillsstrategic thinkingcreative problem solving