Global Strategy Director (18m FTC)

OLIVER Agency; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading marketing agency in London is seeking a Strategy Director for maternity cover. The role requires deep expertise in the beauty sector and hands-on experience with AI tools. Responsibilities include leading a global strategy team, mentoring social strategists, and ensuring top-quality strategy integration across various brands. Candidates should be proactive team players and committed to sustainability principles.

Qualifications

• Deep and recent experience with beauty brands across global markets.
• Strong partnership with creative teams to implement cultural trends.
• Experience utilizing AI tools in strategy development.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the AI Studio strategy team.
• Ensure delivery of top-class strategies and outputs.
• Develop best practices across teams.

Skills

Deep beauty expertise

Experience with AI tools

Strong relationship-building skills

Team management experience

Tools

Gen AI tools

Job description

Established in 2004, OLIVER is the world’s first and only specialist in designing, building, and running bespoke in-house agencies and marketing ecosystems for brands. We partner with over 300 clients in 40+ countries and counting. Our unique model drives creativity and efficiency, allowing us to deliver tailored solutions that resonate deeply with audiences.

As a part of The Brandtech Group , we're at the forefront of leveraging cutting-edge AI technology to revolutionise how we create and deliver work. Our AI solutions enhance efficiency, spark creativity, and drive insightful decision-making, empowering our teams to produce innovative and impactful results.

Location: London, England, United Kingdom

About the role:

We’re looking for a strategy director to join our team for one of our largest Global Beauty clients, delivering innovative and progressive work with Gen AI at its heart.

Our current strategy leader is shortly departing on maternity leave, so we need a global strategy director to join our team as maternity cover. We're looking for someone with deep beauty expertise across diverse markets, a social and culture first approach to developing strategy, and hands on experience of using Gen AI to guide and shape creative work.

This role will be responsible for guiding and directing the strategic work done in the AI Studios we are building, helping to scale up and further develop these Studios, as well as leading social strategy across a number of brands. You’ll also be mentoring a team of social strategists across the world.

This is a senior role, working with our senior team and senior client stakeholders.

What you will be doing:

• Hands on leadership and mentoring of our AI Studio strategy team
• Ensuring strategy and outputs are top class
• Developing and sharing best practice across the teams and with clients
• Working with senior clients to ensure our AI Studio is integrating seamlessly with other agency partners and to optimize strategic ways of working
• Championing a 'culture that converts' strategic approach for our client's brands
• Hands on strategic leadership of big social strategy projects
• Fostering an environment of identifying and sharing audience and cultural insights across social, strategy and creative teams
• Thought leadership in the client's industry
• Ensuring strategy, social and creative teams are up to date with the latest trends on social
• Supporting the development and scale up of new AI Studios
• You will be open and willing to attend sustainability training relevant to your role and soak up recommended research and reading about sustainability issues

What you need to be great in this role:

• Deep and recent experience and expertise of working with beauty brands across global markets – particularly in terms of how brands behave in social channels
• Ability to work in close partnership with creative teams and creative directors to turn the latest relevant cultural trends into actionable creative inspiration
• Hands on experience of using AI tools for strategy development, and a good appreciation of the current capabilities and strengths of different creative Gen AI tools
• Ability to build strong relationships with senior client stakeholders
• Experience in managing other strategists
• Total team player with can do attitude
• You can be the change - you prioritise environmental responsibility, social equity, and economic viability and how that translates into your day-to-day role

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Our values shape everything we do:

Be Imaginative to push the boundaries of what’s possible

Be always learningand listening to understand

Be actively pro-inclusive and anti-racist across our community, clients and creations

OLIVER, a part of the Brandtech Group, is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodivergence, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.

OLIVER has set ambitious environmental goals around sustainability, with science-based emissions reduction targets. Collectively, we work towards our mission,embedding sustainability into every department and through every stage of the project lifecycle.

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