Strategy Director, 6 month FTC

FutureBrand; London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

FutureBrand, a leading branding agency, is seeking a Strategy Director for a 6-month contract. This hybrid role involves driving strategy projects across consumer sectors, building relationships, and mentoring team members while fostering a diverse and inclusive environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering complex brand strategies.
• Experience across large scale consumer branding projects and FMCG.
• Strong financial understanding and ability to build effective relationships.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy projects across consumer/FMCG industries.
• Develop strong relationships with clients and internal teams.
• Ensure profitability and explore revenue opportunities.

Skills

Brand Strategy

Team Leadership

Relationship Building

Problem Solving

Presentation Skills

Attention to Detail

Job description

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Strategy Director, 6 month FTC

Hybrid: 3 days in London office FutureBrand We’re FutureBrand, the flagship branding agency within the multi-award-winning global advertising agency network McCann Worldgroup. 24 years young with a head full of big brand experience and a gaze fixed firmly on the future, our work over the last two decades has changed the brand landscape today. What we do next will change tomorrow. We’re based in some of the most exciting and vibrant cities on the planet, balancing global scale with cultural connection. That means we’re on the doorstep of many of the world’s biggest brands, and within reach of the very best talent around. Together, we are a diverse brand, experience and design community who believe that brand is how a company’s people, products and services behave wherever and whenever they show up in the world. Our work focuses on measuring and maximizing brand behaviour by connecting corporate purpose with everyday lived experience. It's through this work that we deliver our purpose: To transform the future of businesses by changing how their brands behave today. And because we believe strongly that the future our brands create must be a future for us all, our shared values - Progressive, Adaptable, Collaborative and Empowering - put difference and diversity at our core. We're now looking for an experienced consumer/FMCG Strategy Director to join the team for a 6 month contract fixed term contract Key Responsibilities:

Able to confidently shape the narrative across multiple complex projects, and persuasively sell in future brand strategies to clients and their agency partners

Lead a full breadth of strategy projects (i.e. positioning, architecture, naming, design, activation) across consumer/FMCG industries

Accurately and actively define and scope projects

Foster strong relationships; become a trusted strategic advisor internally and externally with colleagues and clients

Anchor the delivery of the strategy across all points of connected experience, and identify new opportunities for delivery of the strategy in partnership with Strategy Directors

Work with the team and across teams to help shape efforts towards achieving client, agency and project goals, pursuing effective working strategies as you go

Ensure strategy work is delivered profitably, working effectively with the team to deliver profitable projects

Identify revenue opportunities from existing clients and from the application of new methodologies: proactively developing plans to extend client relationships

Develop a solid understanding of the FutureBrand offering and disciplines and of our clients’ business and clearly articulate this.

Proactively suggest ideas to inspire the team and shape team meetings

In partnership with your counterparts in creative and client servicing embed an effective way of working, co-developing and innovating our methodologies and approaches

Bring in leading edge thinking from the world around us, seen as a thought leader you develop and drive the narrative arc of internal projects

You crystallise your thinking and provide thought leadership

Contribute to a highly collaborative and energized atmosphere in which collaboration and positive disruption are encouraged

Champion team members, support their development and give them opportunities to contribute. Use your knowledge and experience to advise, guide and inspire the team on how to shape and deliver great work, providing hands on support and mentoring. Identify and address any development areas within the team

Skills and Competencies You will be an established Strategy professional with:

Proven experience delivering complex brand strategies

Experience across both large scale consumer branding projects and FMCG (Packaging, NPD etc)

Good experience and understanding of financials

Able to build strong, personable and effective working relationships at all levels, both internally and externally

Experience mentoring and/or leading team members

Delivers results through teamwork

Proactive, involves others and communicates with others to make things happen

Problem-solving approach

Excellent attention to detail

Confident presenting

Keen to develop and willing to take responsibility

Open to feedback

Remain calm when working under pressure and encourage the team to do so

Equal Opportunities We believe that ideas get better when they are inherently diverse and shared in highly inclusive ways and we want to hear from those who think differently from us. We truly believe in the strength of diversity and the richness it can bring. By bringing different people together great things happen. FutureBrand is an equal opportunity employer (EEO). We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information. FutureBrand is a disability-confident committed employer and will guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets the minimum criteria for the role.