Strategy Director
Right Formula
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Play a central role in defining and elevating the agency’s strategic product
- Lead the junior strategy team while partnering closely with Creative, Growth, and Client Services
- Shape and deliver strategy across three core areas: Growth Strategy, Portfolio Strategy, and Project Strategy
- Turn insight and intelligence into compelling narrative, experiences, and activations
- Mentor and develop planners, analysts, and researchers
- Build strong relationships with senior clients, influence decision-making, and ensure strategic outputs
Requirements
- Extensive experience in senior strategy roles within integrated, sponsorship, brand experience, sports marketing, or creative agencies
- Proven ability to create strategies with both creative impact and commercial value
- High fluency and confidence in developing strategic models, frameworks, architectures, and decision systems
- Exceptional narrative development, storytelling, and strategic framework design capabilities
- Deep experience running complex discovery phases, including stakeholder interviews, landscape audits, audience analysis, and competitive benchmarking
- Strong background in audience, cultural, and behavioural analysis
- Proven ability to design measurement frameworks, KPIs, dashboards, and data capture protocols
- Strong business development experience and proposal creation capability
- Demonstrated strategic rigour with a sophisticated understanding of brand strategy, brand architecture, and how partnerships must ladder into overarching brand platforms, behaviours, and positioning
- Advanced understanding of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies
- Excellent presentation, communication, and high-level facilitation skills
- Strong team leadership, coaching, and talent development experience
- Highly organised with exceptional project management and financial stewardship capabilities
- Proficiency with intelligence tools, research platforms, and data analysis software
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Retirement plans
- Professional development programs
- Flexible work arrangements
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
strategic modelsframeworksarchitecturesdecision systemsnarrative developmentstorytellingmeasurement frameworksKPIsdata capture protocolsqualitative research methodologies
Soft Skills
team leadershipcoachingtalent developmentpresentation skillscommunication skillsfacilitation skillsrelationship buildinginfluenceorganisational skillsproject management