Strategy Director

About Ogilvy  

Ogilvy has been creating impact for brands through iconic, culture-changing, value-driving ideas since the company was founded by David Ogilvy 75 years ago. It builds on that rich legacy through Borderless Creativity – innovating at the intersections of its advertising, public relations, relationship design, consulting, and health capabilities with experts collaborating seamlessly across over 120 offices in nearly 90 countries. Ogilvy currently ranks as the #1 global agency network for creative excellence and effectiveness by WARC, signifying its ability to deliver creative solutions that drive unreasonable impact for clients and communities. Ogilvy is a WPP company (NYSE: WPP). For more information, visit Ogilvy.com, and follow us on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and Facebook.

About the Role  

As a Strategy Director you are a leader who opens the aperture for creative opportunity and growth on the account. You are highly collaborative with account, creative clients, and partners around the world. You thrive on leaning into and exploring the intricacies of other cultures and love finding interesting truths and even more interesting ways to relay them. Through directly managing junior planners &/or mentoring other Ogilvy strategists, you reinforce your own skillset. You aren’t just delegating; you create opportunities for people around you. You have a perspective on brands & consumers, and you speak from knowledge and experience, where your insight into consumer attitudes and behaviors and your innovative marketing thinking is your source of your authority and influence.

What You’ll Do 

• Develop brand strategies, write creative briefs, lead development and presentation of creative platforms and campaigns, and help lead clients and agency partners
• Bring proactive thinking and ideas to clients to push brands into new spaces
• Design and implementation of quick turn, budget-efficient research projects to address client business issues, gain insight into target audiences and/or test concepts
• Manage and direct a team of Senior Strategists, Strategists, Associate Strategists, and interns who are assigned to the Strategy Director’s accounts
• Provide professional development opportunities and on-the-job training as needed
  
  

What You’ll Need  

• 7+ years of planning/brand strategy experience
• Managerial experience
• Ability to run day-to-day account work & pitches
• A strong creative instinct and intuitive creative approach to solving business problems
• Contributes thought leadership and best practices to the department
• Comfortable with high-level client exposure; must be able to lead conversations with senior marketing executives without a hitch
• Telecom category experience
• Excellent presentation skills
• Ability to understand and work within complex organizations, with multiple marketing budgets and stakeholders across various business units 
• Ability to balance clients’ long-term branding initiatives with short-term sales goals to develop campaigns that work across time horizons and meet the needs of various stakeholders
  
  

How We’ll Support You 

Ogilvy celebrates its people. Fully. Enthusiastically. Unhesitatingly. We’ll empower you with the tools you’ll need to succeed. We’ll give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. We’ll support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. And we’ll provide opportunities for you to do work of which you’ll be proud, with people you’ll be proud to call your teammates.  

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The base salary range for this position at the time of this posting is indicated below. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications. We offer a competitive benefits package, click here for more details.

At Ogilvy, our people are at the heart of what we do: a creative agency that sparks game-changing ideas across culture and business through collaboration, integrity, and a celebration of self-expression. 

We believe in building powerful teams with purpose - and we relentlessly curate transformative initiatives that make our commitment to fairness, and equity a reality. 

Our ultimate mission is to leave a positive impact on the world, creating a better future for all, while supporting and uplifting the global communities we serve.  This is central to our mantra of Borderless Creativity.

Ogilvy is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

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