At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead innovative strategies for top brands, blending creativity with data-driven insights.
- Company: Join DEPT, a pioneering Growth Invention company at the tech-marketing intersection.
- Benefits: Enjoy flexible working, competitive salary, healthcare, and 26 days holiday.
- Other info: Embrace a culture of curiosity and collaboration in a diverse workplace.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on ambitious brands while collaborating with a talented team.
- Qualifications: Experience in strategy roles, digital media, and excellent communication skills required.
The predicted salary is between 75600 - 92400 £ per year.
DEPT is a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, our 4,000+ specialists deliver growth invention services across Brand & Media, Experience, Commerce, CRM, and Technology & Data. We’re 50|50 tech and marketing, partner-led, and first to move. Clients include Google, Lufthansa, Meta, eBay, and OpenAI. We have been certified B Corp and Climate Neutral since 2021.
This position sits in our Marketing & Technology service based in London. We combine data, technology, creative content, and paid media to crack brands’ business problems & drive revenue through a variety of digital marketing solutions like ad campaigns, augmented reality, and chatbots. Our clients include ASOS, Just Eat Takeaway, Twitch, TikTok, and The White Company.
The Strategy Director will be expected to deliver:
- Creative Excellence: Ensuring top class strategies across a range of briefs, with a lean into social, influencer and culture led content.
- Innovation: Instilling market-leading innovations in digital and social strategy that our clients couldn’t get anywhere else.
- Provoke: Inspiring the team to deliver big & bold ideas with impact, aimed to deliver on our clients’ business challenges or ambitions.
- Building & maintaining trusted client relationships: Being on speed dial for our clients to align on challenges, opportunities or ambitions.
- Lead and guide: A range of (creative) strategic disciplines, stitching together various disciplines to set out a clear trajectory to fix our clients' challenges.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
The role of Strategy Director is exciting, varied and constantly evolving. In this role, you will:
- Nurture and build out our team of talented strategists from every aspect of the marketing discipline.
- Lead hands on with one key account to drive the most pioneering work.
- Ensure creative excellence by closely collaborating with the existing creative teams.
- Work closely with wider EMEA and UK and global strategy teams to identify talent and resources and shared processes and tooling.
- Innovate our offering working closely with tech, creative, media and analytics.
- Upping the benchmark of the work and ensuring we are leading the industry.
- Lead and participate in new business pitches; locally and globally.
- Serve as a thought leader across the business and externally on topics of planning, strategy and innovation.
SKILLS AND PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Essential:
- A high level of relevant experience within a strategy-focused role in an agency setting.
- A solid understanding & experience within digital and social media, including social, editorial and influencer strategy.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Obsessed by consumer behaviour and researching ways into creating meaningful communication for every audience.
- Experience in using cultural trends and insights to create compelling social-first content.
- Ability to work with senior clients on key strategy projects.
- Very efficient, producing significant output with minimal wasted effort.
- Focused under pressure and can get stuff done on a tight deadline.
- Loves learning and teaching new things.
- Great interpersonal and listening skills.
- Very organised, with a high attention to detail.
WE OFFER:
- A flexible, hybrid working policy (2 days from the office, depending on location).
- An excellent salary based on experience and equal pay policies.
- Pension, free private healthcare, mental health support, and company sick pay scheme.
- 26 days paid holiday (plus UK Bank Holidays).
- Refreshments are provided in the office all week, as well as drinks at 4 pm on a Thursday.
- Help getting you to work with a season ticket loan and cycle to work scheme.
- Enhanced family friendly policies to support new parents.
DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION
At DEPT, we take pride in creating an inclusive workplace where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive. We actively seek to recruit, develop, nurture, and retain talented individuals from diverse backgrounds, with varying skills and perspectives.
Strategy Director employer: Dept Agency
At DEPT, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, offering a vibrant work culture that fosters creativity and collaboration in the heart of London. With a flexible hybrid working policy, comprehensive benefits including private healthcare and enhanced family-friendly policies, and a strong commitment to employee growth through continuous learning opportunities, we empower our team to thrive. Join us to work with inspiring clients and be part of a certified B Corp that values diversity, equity, and inclusion, making a meaningful impact in the world of marketing and technology.
