Role: Strategy Director: EMEA (FTC - 12 months) (Role can be satisfied 4 or 5 days a week)

Location: London, England, United Kingdom

ROLE MISSION

Working in partnership with our client, the Strategy Director: EMEA will act as a partner to the EMEA CEO and his Managing Partners and Business Directors to help deliver organic growth and new business through strategy and data-led solutions. The Strategy Director will be part of the EMEA leadership team and will help to identify opportunities for new strategic projects or roles, oversee the delivery of key projects, and support and coach the strategists on the team.

The Strategy Director will focus mainly on three growth opportunity accounts where they should be part of the OLIVER leadership team for that client but will also lean into new business pitches and other client opportunities when they arise. The role will focus mainly on ensuring that we are delivering best-in-class social strategy for these three clients, continual cultural and audience inspiration, and measurement, optimization and execution of learning on our work. The Strategy Director will champion the work we do in social as a key lever to create business success for these brands, and will work closely with our Global Head of Social to do this.

ABOUT THE TEAM YOU WILL BE JOINING

Report to the Global CSO

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING IN YOUR ROLE

The Strategy Director – EMEA has four key areas of responsibility:

1) Strategic leadership for our teams in our three growth opportunity accounts

Ensuring we deliver best in class social strategy and integration with other marketing comms
Developing strong senior client relationships and acting as their strategic partner; identifying new growth opportunities for OLIVER across strategy and data
Support the Global Head of Social in the expansion of the social offer we deliver to these clients (e.g. growing Influencer/Creator)
Full participation in QBRs, and in driving the OLIVER Creative Scale to raise creative quality
Bringing together the strategic and social communities who work on these clients across and beyond EMEA

2) Sharing best practice and learning with the EMEA leadership team

Driving a programme of training sessions for strategists and client services team to up skill on our strategic capabilities support the organic growth strategy
Understanding and driving BTG tools (Pencil & CreativeX) to help push us further upstream with our production focused accounts
Regularly sharing best practice and case studies, and relevant insights for client teams at EMEA regional team meetings

3) Nurturing and developing the EMEA strategists

Creating the right structures to enable day to day mentoring and coaching, including a monthly connect
Sharing and cementing best practice
With the CSO, ensuring that they are connected to the wider agency

4) Guiding, or leading new business pitches

Guiding the strategic direction for new business pitches
Connecting the EMEA team with relevant specialists in the global strategy and data team
Driving the strategic element of the pitch, where appropriate

SUCCESS METRICS (NEXT 4 – 5 MONTHS)

Key clients

Establish strong relationship with senior clients – measured by CSat
Identify and pipeline an additional £80k of scope that wouldn’t have been possible without strategy

EMEA leadership

Establish strategy/social community, and foster knowledge exchange and best practice sharing – measured by Peakon
Upskill EMEA teams on key strategic products and services to drive organic growth (e.g. Social Strategy, Audience Intelligence, Data Strategy, CRM) – measured by delivery at EMEA town halls

Job Id: 9450

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We are a company built on our values, we have given you a brief overview below but would love to tell you more.

Be Ambitious to succeed

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Be Inspirational to do groundbreaking work

Be always learning and listening to understand

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We've set ambitious, market-leading environmental and social goals around sustainability at OLIVER. We have committed to be net zero by 2030 and take far-reaching action on DE&I in the sector. We expect everyone to contribute to our mission, embedding sustainability into every department and through every stage of the project lifecycle.

Inside Ideas Group and its affiliates are equal opportunity employers committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all our employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All [suitable] applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.

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