Global Brand Strategy Director

Landor; Paris (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Landor is seeking a senior strategy lead to shape brand direction for key global accounts. You will influence senior client decisions, translate insights into compelling narratives, and drive growth across diverse brands.

You will own hypotheses, design research, and deliver high-impact strategic platforms while guiding multidisciplinary teams. A strong commercial mindset and familiarity with AI-driven methods are essential to accelerate delivery.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in strategy, leading high-impact brand and business challenges.
• Strong analytical capability, synthesizing research into actionable recommendations.
• Exceptional narrative and presentation skills for executive-level stories.
• Experience across global brand portfolios or multi-market accounts.
• Ability to manage multiple projects with tight deadlines while maintaining strategic quality.
• Commercial mindset with experience contributing to pitches and budgets.
• Curiosity about AI, new technologies and modern methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead high-impact strategic thinking, influence senior client decisions and turn complex insights into clear, decisive action.
• Take a pivotal strategic role on one of our key global accounts, working across a diverse portfolio of brands and supporting other accounts as demand requires.
• Build trusted, long-term client relationships and provide strategic leadership across multidisciplinary teams.
• Own strategic deliverables from hypothesis through to recommendation, creating compelling narrative arcs and high-impact client presentations.
• Translate qualitative and quantitative research into robust recommendations that shape brand positioning and drive growth.
• Formulate sharp hypotheses, design primary and secondary research, and interrogate complex datasets to uncover high-value insights.
• Assess brand performance, competitive landscapes and cultural shifts to identify clear opportunities for growth.
• Establish efficient workflows that enable high-quality strategic delivery across multiple demanding projects.
• Apply AI tools, modern research techniques and innovative methodologies to improve efficiency and accelerate delivery.
• Develop briefs, points of view and strategic platforms that inspire breakthrough, award‑winning creative work.
• Lead strategic thinking for pitches, identify organic growth opportunities within existing accounts and contribute to winning new business.
• Manage project targets, budgets and delivery, ensuring strategic ambition is matched by commercial rigour.
• Influence clients and multidisciplinary teams with confidence, clarity and a compelling point of view.

Skills

Strategy

Brand management

Analytical thinking

Presentation skills

Client leadership

Job description

Landor is seeking a senior strategy lead to shape brand direction for key global accounts. You will influence senior client decisions, translate insights into compelling narratives, and drive growth across diverse brands.

You will own hypotheses, design research, and deliver high-impact strategic platforms while guiding multidisciplinary teams. A strong commercial mindset and familiarity with AI-driven methods are essential to accelerate delivery.