Strategy Director

The Kite Factory

full-time

Posted on: 9/9/2025

Origin: • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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💰 £70,000 - £90,000 per year

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About the role

Act as a senior strategic partner to clients, sitting with C-suite stakeholders to understand frustrations and ambitions and translate them into actionable media solutions
Lead the creation and delivery of powerful media strategies using data-driven insights and craft planning
Collate, shape and present strategic thinking and client presentations, taking clients on the strategic journey you create
Manage a patch of clients to ensure consistency of thinking and strategic support
Lead strategic input into pitches and new business in collaboration with Client Services
Champion agency intelligence, implement planning processes (FlightPath) and disseminate industry research across the agency
Deliver strategic consultancy projects to help clients optimise marketing and stakeholder alignment
Foster a collaborative, high-performance culture across departments, agency partners and media owners
Mentor and develop direct reports and build capabilities across the wider agency
Use A.I. tools and prompt design as part of day-to-day approach to strengthen insights and thinking
Work with planning specialists and media owners to brief and implement media strategies

Extensive experience in writing and delivering media strategies for C-suite clients
Ability to use data to make compelling business cases for media plans and approaches
Proven experience of senior stakeholder management both internally and externally
Ability to foster a collaborative and high-performance culture across departments, external agency partners and media owners
Experience planning and executing media campaigns within a media agency Client Services team, from brief and strategic development to deployment and reporting
Working knowledge of all media channels, suitable for senior-level client discussion, planning and briefing specialists
In-depth knowledge of planning tools (e.g., Kantar TGI, YouGov Brand Index, IPA TouchPoints, Nielsen Ad Intel)
Experience pitching for and winning new business and/or retaining clients through pitch processes (highly desirable)
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including collating and shaping presentations
Experience in mentoring, developing talent and managing direct reports
Comfortable using A.I. tools and prompt design to unlock insights and iterate outputs