Strategy Director

forpeople; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global clients

Competitive salary

Bonus and benefits package

Training and personal development

Generous pension

Inspiring working environment

Hybrid working with London studio

Job summary

forpeople in London is seeking a Strategy Director to lead and evolve our strategy practice. You’ll define the thinking behind our work—from positioning and frameworks through to the narratives and manifestos that give brands their voice and meaning.

You’ll mentor the team, refine our tools and approaches, and raise the bar for great strategic thinking across the studio, collaborating closely with Creative Directors and multidisciplinary teams to deliver bold ideas with clarity.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership in strategy across multiple markets and industries.
• Ability to distil complex challenges into clear strategic narratives.
• Experience mentoring strategists and creatives within a studio environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and evolve the strategy practice, mentoring the team.
• Define positioning, frameworks, and narratives that shape client work.
• Ensure strategic integrity across projects from concept to delivery.
• Build trusted relationships with senior clients and internal teams.
• Present thinking with clarity, confidence and craft.
• Collaborate with Creative Directors to integrate strategy across disciplines.
• Contribute to new business, credentials, and thought leadership.

Skills

Consultant Leadership

Strategic Excellence

Team Development

Big Idea Thinking

Stakeholder Influence

Job description

About The Role

We’re looking for a Strategy Director to lead and evolve our strategy practice.

About The Role

We’re looking for a Strategy Director to lead and evolve our strategy practice. You’ll define the thinking behind our work – from positioning and frameworks through to the narratives and manifestos that give brands their voice and meaning. Alongside delivering exceptional client work, you’ll lead and develop our strategy practice – mentoring and growing the team, refining our tools and approaches, and raising the bar for what great strategic thinking looks like at forpeople. Working closely with Creative Directors and multidisciplinary teams, you’ll bring clarity and structure to complex challenges, driving the big ideas that carry across all touchpoints. This is a role for someone who can distil complexity, articulate compelling narratives, shape work with precision and intent while motivating and inspiring an energetic team.

Who We'd Like To Find

Since 2004, we’ve grown from only four to over a hundred by finding the right people – people that don’t only slot right in to our studio culture, but bring something incredible to it.

This Role Calls For Someone Who Brings

• Consultant Leadership — We partner with global companies and startups to define (or re-discover) their soul and essence in a changing world. We’re seeking experienced leaders who bring rigour and expertise in setting inspiring and effective strategies across multiple markets and industries.
• Strategic Excellence — Proven incredible strategic ability and innovation across narrative building, research, insight, and culture, evidenced in highly impactful projects for the world’s biggest and most impactful brands and companies.
• Team Development — As the head of this team you mentor, support, and challenge others to do their best work, helping to grow both individuals and the wider strategy discipline within the studio.
• Driving Big Ideas — As a studio we work across visual, verbal, spatial and digital consumer experiences – but the big idea is always the most critical element of what we do. We’re looking out for conceptual thinkers who can generate, articulate, and drive bold ideas into reality with clarity and flair.
• Influential Relationship-building — You build trust quickly and communicate with clarity. Whether working with senior clients or internal teams, you know how to bring people with you — leading conversations, presenting thinking and influencing decisions.

Specifically, You’ll Be

• Flying the flag for big ideas and rigorous strategy
• Leading innovation of our strategic tools, thinking, and ways of working
• Working hands-on with project teams to ensure strategic integrity at every stage
• Building strong relationships with clients, acting as a trusted strategic partner
• Presenting work with clarity, confidence, and craft
• Supporting and mentoring strategists and creatives across the studio
• Collaborating with Client Services to shape project approaches and identify opportunities for growth
• Bringing optimism and accountability to strategy teams
• Contributing to new business, credentials, and thought leadership
• Supporting hiring, team development, and growth

What We Offer

People mean the world to us. That includes looking after our own, with things like:

• Global clients and world-class work
• A competitive salary
• A strong bonus and benefits package, reflecting both company and personal performance
• Training, support and personal career development
• A generous company pension
• A unique, inspiring working environment filled with incredible, like minded people
• Hybrid working, with a minimum of three days a week in our London studio