At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead strategic development for top brands, driving growth through innovative communications.
- Company: Join a dynamic agency working with iconic brands like Dyson and Warner Bros.
- Benefits: Collaborative culture, professional growth, and opportunities to influence major campaigns.
- Other info: Embrace a fast-paced environment with a focus on emerging technologies and creativity.
- Why this job: Shape impactful strategies and connect brands with their audiences in exciting ways.
- Qualifications: Strong experience in brand strategy and excellent stakeholder management skills.
The predicted salary is between 75600 - 92400 £ per year.
Join a team that helps some of the world’s most recognised brands—Dyson, Cupra and Warner Bros. Unlocking growth through bold thinking, audience insight and integrated communications.
As Strategy Director, you’ll be the senior strategic lead across key client accounts, shaping work that connects brand ambition with commercial success while influencing clients, colleagues and partners alike.
What you'll do
- Lead the development of integrated communications and media strategies that drive brand and business outcomes.
- Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders, understanding their challenges, objectives and growth ambitions.
- Turn audience insights, market research, data and cultural trends into innovative strategic recommendations.
- Partner closely with planning, analytics, creative and specialist teams to deliver connected, effective solutions.
- Ensure strategy, execution and measurement work together seamlessly.
- Identify opportunities to expand client partnerships through relevant specialist capabilities and services.
- Contribute to new business pitches, helping shape compelling, winning strategies.
- Play an active role within the Strategy & Intelligence team, including supporting the development and application of Culture Currents.
- Stay ahead of emerging media, technology and AI developments to inspire innovative thinking.
- Contribute to agency-wide initiatives, thought leadership and community-focused programmes.
What you'll bring
- Strong experience leading brand, campaign or communications strategy, with excellent media understanding.
- A track record of translating complex briefs into clear, actionable strategic recommendations.
- Confidence working in fast-paced environments, balancing multiple priorities and tight deadlines.
- Knowledge of media effectiveness, measurement approaches (including MMM) and the evolving media landscape.
- Strong commercial awareness and the ability to connect marketing activity to business outcomes.
- Excellent storytelling, presentation and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience using audience insight and segmentation tools, such as TGI.
- Curiosity about emerging technologies, including AI, and how they can enhance effectiveness and creativity.
- A collaborative, proactive approach and the confidence to guide teams and clients towards successful outcomes.
Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.
Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we’re focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us—we look forward to getting to know you.
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Strategy Director in London employer: OMPHDMUK PHD Media Limited
PHD UK is an exceptional employer that fosters a dynamic and collaborative work culture, where innovation and strategic thinking are at the forefront of our operations. Located in a vibrant area, we offer our employees ample opportunities for professional growth and development, alongside competitive benefits that support work-life balance. Join us to be part of a team that values creativity and delivers outstanding results for our clients.
Contact Details:
OMPHDMUK PHD Media Limited Recruitment Team
