Strategy Director in London

Location: London
Salary: Hidden
Recruiter: VaynerMedia
Job Hours: Part-time

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  • Lead the strategic thinking of our Consulting offering and New Business team. Identifying and addressing client challenges while driving innovation and opportunities for the business. You will be leading and coordinating strategy for our consulting clients so need to be able to handle fast turn around deadlines and multiple projects at the same time. 
  • Contribute to the growth and culture of VaynerMedia, serving as a leader in helping to continuously update our strategic product.
  • Manage a team of up to 5+ strategists in varied locations across Europe to ensure regional and local efforts reflect the strategic thinking in execution.
  • Work with creative teams to help form creative ideas which can develop into larger campaigns over time.
  • Monitor effectiveness and continuously show where we can strategically improve with data analysis and visualisation.
  • We treasure Personality and Experience yet we do know that these qualifications lead to what WE KNOW as a success:

  • 10+ years experience in brand and campaign planning.
  • 5+ Years experience leading teams and developing junior strategists through leadership, delegation and mentoring, with a preference for any leadership roles around performance or direct response teams
  • Excellent social media knowledge and understanding.
  • The ability to conduct research and identify relevant cultural trends. 
  • Multi-market European market experience, direct experience in the UK and Germany would be an advantage.
  • Strong capabilities around managing and presenting to senior client stakeholders
  • Experience and examples of creative and wider strategic thinking, building integrated campaigns working with creative and media teams in either one agency or multi-agency groups.
  • Examples of thought leadership and proactive thinking to address client challenges and industry trends.
  • Here’s how We Support You

    We regularly review our benefits and are committed to providing a comprehensive programme for our people.

  • Unlimited Holiday + 1 Day Birthday Leave
  • Perkbox (online discount platform with 250 perks available).
  • Journey EAP - proactive and crisis support with life concierge services
  • Enhanced Parental Leave
  • Collaborative and inclusive work environment
  • Professional development opportunities and ongoing training and development
  • Unlimited Coaching sessions, which can be private and team class sessions
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Employee Assistance Program (Financial, Mental and Physical Wellbeing)
  • Cash Plan with Medicash - Level 1 cover, option to add partner, 4 children can be added for free
  • Virtual GP, Skinvision, 24/7 Health and Stress Helplines, Discounted Gym, Medicash Extras
  • Life Assurance
  • Income Protection
  • Group Personal Pension
  • What you SHOULD KNOW about VaynerMedia

    Think “lab” and not “agency”. We get excited about solving business problems, not creating advertising for the sake of making advertising. Our entrepreneurship DNA runs deep. We’re willing to break rules, try new things, and test hypotheses if it means better understanding our craft. It’s fun!

    We believe 100% that brands can be built on digital platforms and part of our model is built bottom up, flipping the traditional advertising model and process on its head. We don’t play to agency/industry norms and our culture and energy reflects that.

    Our environment (and pace) feels much more like a start-up than most agencies you might be used to. Hopefully that, and the opportunity to collaborate with the talented and enthusiastic crew, work with big brands excites you, as it does us. We can’t wait to meet you.

    VaynerMedia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This means that VaynerMedia provides equal employment opportunities to all staff members and job applicants without regard to gender, pregnancy, marital or civil partnership status, gender reassignment, race, disability, sexual orientation, religious belief, part time or fixed term employment, age or any other legally protected class. 

    Candidates must be authorised to work in the U.K.


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