The Senior Strategy Director (SSD) is a new and critical role within BCW London reflecting the growing demand and value placed on strategy development and leadership across the business. The SSD will report directly to the BCWs Chief Strategy Officer.
The SSD will be a key senior leader in both the London strategy and Hub teams; the Hub team bringing together digital/technology, creative, design and strategy teams to drive new and more valuable work. He/she will become part of the Hub Leadership team focusing on delivering our agency purpose of ‘Moving People’ through the lens of integration and innovation.
Whilst as a business, our proud heritage is in ‘earned’, we are not constrained by it. Strategic insight and creative strategy have never been more important in directing and inspiring creative that can engage or ‘move’ critical to engage audiences and therefore work hard to solve client problems and challenges regardless of media, channel or platform. The SSD will play a key role in elevating our capabilities in creative strategy development and integrated brand and business solutions.
The SSD will be responsible for not only delivering impactful creative strategies for agency clients, working across all practices in the agency (i.e. consumer, corporate, tech, healthcare, and public affairs), he/she will also be responsible supporting other members of the strategy team as they deliver projects too. He/she will be important in directing, developing and nurturing the significant talent within the team. In particular he/she will be responsible for developing brand strategy and planning skills.
The SSD will bring experience, smart thinking and ambition to our strategic development. Helping clients win: helping BCW win.
Requirements
Strategy Team Leadership
Client and ongoing project work
New business development
Desired Experience
Benefits