Strategy Director

OLIXIR is a next-generation healthcare agency, created by uniting FCB Health London and McCann Health London as part of Omnicom Health’s evolving European structure. By bringing our teams together and combining our strengths, we’re building something entirely new: a more agile, more connected, and more ambitious partner for healthcare brands. OLIXIR blends award-winning creative excellence with deep scientific expertise, strategic thinking that drives meaningful brand growth, and fully integrated production at scale.

Job Summary

Working closely with the Head of Strategy and the leadership team, the Strategy Director is responsible for the strategic output of the agency and inspiring leadership of planning activities for allocated brands and campaigns. At its core, the role of the Strategy Director is about understanding people’s behaviour and beliefs in order to define brands’ problems and objectives with the aim of providing our clients with a competitive advantage in the market.

Job Responsibilities

• Strategy Development: Providing insightful leadership over direction of planning research to understand or deepen knowledge on markets, competitive environments and target audiences of our clients’ brands. Overseeing or conducting market research and developing research briefs, observing research, and conducting analysis/developing research findings into actionable next steps. Leading strategic development through boiling down information, insights, and research findings into a brand/comms strategy that is simple yet powerful, and aligned with what the clients’ brands really need.
• Client Management: Working closely with Planning Directors and Group Strategy Director, develop strategic relationships with clients; establish reputation as a leading strategic partner authority building multi-layered client relationships and growing global brands. Identify and drive new business opportunities, overseeing and guiding the planning team as well as the wider agency on the growth element from a strategy perspective.
• Leadership & Direction: Overseeing and/or coaching through creative briefs with Planning and Creative teams, and briefing Creative teams in an informative and inspirational way. Drive a culture of high performance across the team; through effective line management and leadership, ensure high quality selection, training, development and performance management of all line reports.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• A proven track record in planning within ‘top tier’ marketing communication agencies including significant experience of planning for health brands.
• Understanding of consumer health planning in addition to prescription brand (rx) planning.
• Must have worked at an international and multi-market level.
• Leadership skills; able to build, mentor and develop high performing teams.
• Be confident and articulate in front of senior clients and large audiences.

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