Strategy Director

Publicis Groupe; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Life Assurance

Private Medical

Reflection Days

Shared Parental Leave

Job summary

Starcom Worldwide is hiring a Strategy Director to lead regional communications strategy for a major client, spanning Europe. You will turn complex business challenges into clear strategies and work across markets, channels and disciplines to shape how a brand connects with audiences.

You will partner with Publicis Groupe specialists, influence senior stakeholders, and drive integrated solutions across teams, ensuring alignment with business objectives and brand purpose.

Qualifications

• Experience in international communications planning across multiple markets.
• Strong understanding of audience-led planning, channel strategy and brand architecture.
• Ability to turn complex business challenges into clear, compelling strategies.
• Experience partnering with senior stakeholders and providing constructive strategic counsel.

Responsibilities

• Lead regional communications strategy across multiple markets, translating brand objectives into clear, actionable frameworks and media principles.
• Partner with Starcom and wider Publicis Groupe specialists to develop integrated solutions.
• Act as a senior strategic partner to the client, providing counsel across briefs, campaigns and opportunities.
• Collaborate with local market teams to translate regional strategy into market-level activation.
• Bring together audience, channel and brand thinking to create connected communications approaches.
• Contribute to annual planning, strategic initiatives and client reviews.
• Develop frameworks, tools and best-practice approaches for use across markets.

Skills

International planning

Audience-led planning

Strategic counsel

Cross-market collaboration

Stakeholder management

Team development

Job description

Company description

With a history that dates back over 80 years, Starcom is a global communications planning and media leader. We are an agency still grounded in our founding principle that people are at the centre of all we do. Each day, we apply this belief to harness the transformative power of data and technology to inspire and move people and business forward. With more than 7,000 employees in over 100 offices around the world, we are the flagship Publicis Media agency that uses our ‘Power of One’ business model, with teams that span multiple disciplines across clients such as Aldi, P&G, Primark, Samsung, Stellantis, and Visa.

We place a huge focus on our People, and have driven flagship D&I and L&D programmes within Publicis Media; our goal is to help every individual reach their fullest potential, and we encourage everyone to make “Brave Plays” in how they approach their work and their own career development. As a result, we have an exceptionally energised and committed talent base, all of us proud of our welcoming and supportive culture, as evidenced by our recognition as one of Campaign’s Best Places to Work for five years in a row, Media Week's Agency of the Year 2025 and one of the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2025.

Overview

We are hiring a Strategy Director to join the Starcom Worldwide team, leading communications strategy for one of our most recognisable global clients. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the intersection of media, data, creativity and brand purpose, shaping how a major brand connects with audiences across Europe. You’ll turn complex business challenges into clear communications strategies and help create more connected thinking across markets, channels and disciplines. You’ll also have significant exposure to senior client stakeholders and international teams across Publicis Groupe.

Responsibilities

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead regional communications strategy across multiple markets, translating brand objectives into clear, actionable frameworks and media principles.
• Partner with Starcom and wider Publicis Groupe specialists across creative, sport, social, data and technology to develop integrated solutions.
• Act as a senior strategic partner to the client, providing thoughtful counsel across key briefs, campaigns and innovation opportunities.
• Collaborate with local market teams to translate regional strategy into relevant and effective market-level activation.
• Bring together audience, channel and brand thinking to create connected communications approaches.
• Contribute to annual planning, strategic business initiatives and client reviews.
• Work with senior strategy and media leaders to develop frameworks, tools and best-practice approaches that can be used across markets.

Qualifications

Skills we’re looking for:

• Strong experience in international communications planning, including working across multiple markets.
• A strong understanding of audience-led planning, channel strategy and brand architecture.
• The ability to turn complex business challenges into clear, compelling and actionable strategies.
• Experience partnering with senior stakeholders and the confidence to provide constructive strategic counsel.
• An international outlook and the ability to work effectively across different markets, teams and cultures.
• Strong collaboration and influencing skills, bringing strategists, media planners, creative partners and specialists together around shared goals.
• Experience supporting and developing others, combined with genuine curiosity about brands, culture and the evolving media landscape.

Additional information

Starcomoffers a wide range of benefits to support our employees. Full details are shared when you join, but highlights include core benefits such as Pension, Life Assurance, and Private Medical cover, alongside enhanced policies like Reflection Days and Shared Parental Leave. You’ll also have access to a range of additional initiatives, including:

Please check out thePublicis Career Pagewhich showcases our Inclusive Benefits and our EAG’s (Employee Action Groups).

Publicis Groupe works primarily from the office or our clients' office four days per week.

At Starcom, we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion or belief, disability, age, citizenship, relationship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected characteristic.

We are committed to providing a fair, accessible, and inclusive recruitment process. If you have any access needs - for example, related to disability, neurodivergence, or a health condition, please let us know. We’ll work with you to ensure the process works for you. Sharing this information will never impact your application.

Guided by our values, we listen with empathy, uplift each other, take responsibility, and embrace change - building a culture where everyone feels seen, respected, and genuinely included.