Strategy Director

Please See//; Mumbai; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Please See// is seeking an experienced Strategy Director with a strong background in brand and corporate strategy. The role requires partnering with large, complex organisations to translate business challenges into clear strategic direction and compelling brand work.

You will lead major engagements, work with senior clients, and collaborate with creative and client leadership to deliver strategic direction across brand architecture, portfolio strategy and transformation initiatives.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in brand strategy, planning, or related consulting/agency environments.
• Experience with large corporate organisations and complex businesses.
• Ability to engage with senior marketing and business leaders and defend a strategic point of view.
• Navigate organisational complexity across multiple brands, audiences, and markets.
• Deep understanding of corporate branding and its business impact.
• Ability to frame ambiguous problems and develop clear strategic recommendations.
• Strong presentation and facilitation skills to translate thinking into actionable direction.
• Commercial awareness linking brand, reputation, growth and long-term value.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end brand strategy engagements diagnosing business and brand challenges.
• Uncover insights from research and stakeholder perspectives and define key strategic questions.
• Translate issues into clear frameworks and develop a feasible roadmap.
• Advise senior clients on strategic choices and build alignment around direction.
• Lead workshops with leadership and other stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Executive Creative Director and teams to translate strategy into creative work.
• Play a senior role in new business pitches shaping the strategic narrative.
• Mentor strategists and contribute to the agency's strategic frameworks.

Skills

Brand strategy

Strategic planning

Senior client-side experience

Executive presence

Workshop facilitation

Commercial savviness

Job description

We are looking for an experienced Strategy Director with a strong background in brand and corporate strategy.

This role is for someone who has spent meaningful time working with large, complex organisations and understands the role brand can play in solving corporate and business challenges.

You should be comfortable getting underneath a problem, understanding the business, its ambitions, audiences, competitive context and organisational realities, before determining what the brand needs to do. The work may involve positioning, rebuilding value systems, corporate identity, organization culture, brand architecture, portfolio strategy, transformation or creating greater clarity across a complex organisation.

You will lead significant strategy engagements, work closely with senior clients and partner with our creative and client leadership teams to turn complex business questions into clear, compelling strategic direction.

What Your Bring

• 10+ years of experience in brand strategy, strategic planning, brand consulting or a closely related discipline, preferably within a brand, strategic, research/insight consultancy or agency environment; relevant senior client-side experience will also be considered
• Significant experience working with large corporate organisations and complex businesses, with an understanding of how they operate and how strategic decisions are made and aligned internally
• The confidence and credibility to work directly with senior marketing and business leaders, to lead conversations, challenge assumptions and defend a strategic point of view
• Experience navigating organisational complexity ie multiple businesses, multiple brands, audiences, stakeholders, markets or competing priorities
• Deep understanding of corporate branding and how brand can help address complex business and organisational challenges.
• The ability to independently frame complex or ambiguous problems, identify the questions that matter, interrogate research and information, and develop a clear strategic recommendation
• Strong presentation and facilitation skills, with the ability to turn complex thinking into clear, compelling and actionable strategic direction, as well as the ability to faciliate workshops where thinking is developed and new perspectives are uncovered
• Commercial awareness and an understanding of the relationship between brand, reputation, growth and long-term business value

What You'll Do

• Lead major brand strategy engagements end-to-end - diagnosing the business and brand challenge, defining the strategic problem and developing the solution
• Draw on research, business information and stakeholder perspectives to uncover insights, challenge assumptions and identify the strategic questions that matter
• Translate complex organisational and business issues into clear, actionable strategic frameworks and recommendations and develop a feasible roadmap where needed
• Advise senior clients on strategic choices, helping them navigate competing priorities and build alignment and conviction around a direction
• Lead workshops and strategic conversations with business leadership teams and other senior stakeholders
• Partner closely with our Executive Creative Director, designers and client leadership teams to ensure strategy translates into distinctive and relevant creative work
• Play a senior strategic role in new business and pitches, helping define the problem, identify the opportunity and shape the strategic narrative
• Mentor and guide strategists, while contributing to Please See//'s strategic frameworks, methodologies and point of view