Strategy Director

ThePlaceToBe; Leeds; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading marketing agency in Leeds is seeking a Strategy Director to shape brands and influence strategic direction. You'll lead high-value brand positioning projects and guide a team in a dynamic environment. The ideal candidate has over 8 years of experience in a creative agency or consultancy, with a strong focus on crafting commercially viable narratives and presenting to senior stakeholders. This pivotal role offers autonomy and the opportunity to drive significant impact in a growing agency.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in strategy within a creative agency or brand consultancy.
• Ability to balance creative ambition with commercial reality.
• Experience leading high-value brand strategy projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead brand positioning and proposition projects.
• Own strategic direction across major client accounts.
• Shape pitch strategy and influence new business conversations.

Skills

Presentation to senior stakeholders

Creative strategy development

Brand positioning

Mentoring junior team members

Complexity management

Job description

ThePlaceToBe are proud to be partnering exclusively with an ambitious agency as they look to appoint a Strategy Director.

This isn’t a “write a deck and step back” strategy role. This is about shaping brands. Influencing rooms. Elevating thinking. And doing it at serious scale.

Think creative firepower meets brand consultancy thinking. They work with recognised brands, the kind with legacy, complexity and big ambition, helping them define positioning, unlock growth and create work that actually means something. This hire matters.

About the role...

You’ll sit at the heart of the agency’s thinking. Partnering closely with the wider SLT, you’ll define and elevate the strategic product, internally and externally.

What you’ll be doing day to day...

• Leading brand positioning and proposition projects
• Owning strategic direction across major client accounts
• Bringing clarity to complex brand challenges
• Turning insight into sharp, commercially powerful narratives
• Shaping pitch strategy and influencing high-stakes new business conversations
• Mentoring and elevating junior strategists
• Being the strategic voice in the room -with clients and creatives alike

You won’t just respond to briefs. You’ll challenge them. Reframe them. Strengthen them.

You’ll have the autonomy to make things happen, but also the backing of an MD who genuinely values growth and relationships.

About you...

You’re a thinker and a doer. You’ve likely spent 8+ years in strategy within a creative agency or brand consultancy environment.

What we're looking for...

• Leading high-value brand strategy projects
• Confident presenting to senior stakeholders and C-suite
• Know how to balance creative ambition with commercial reality
• Can distil complexity into clarity (and make it sound effortless)
• Thrive in rooms where the stake, and expectations are high

You care about craft. You care about insight. And you care about building brands that last.

This is a pivotal hire for an agency that’s scaling with intent. If you want to shape the strategic direction of a business, not just deliver against it, this is that kind of opportunity

Sound like you? Or interested in having a chat about your next career move? Get in touch 💌