Strategy Director

Company Description

Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness is a full-service creative agency operating in the health and wellness space. Our purpose is to unleash the ‘Wellness Effect’ in every person through meaningful personalised experiences, because we achieve greater outcomes when we are fully engaged in our wellness. We believe when our people do well, our work does well, our clients do well, and our patients do well, inspiring even more wellness in the world. We sum it up in two small words… Do Well.

That’s the what, but the how is guided by four defining principles – curious, creative, discerning, brave. These are the values we look for and nurture in others and ourselves, underpinning as they do a culture of collaborative entrepreneurialism that drives high-performance.

Job Description

We’re looking for someone who’s looking for something. Someone who’s not quite content with where they are and what they’ve got. Someone who spends their time dreaming, making, doing, building, creating. Someone with the intelligence to think, challenge, and push things into unexpected places, without pushing people into unpleasant places. Someone who doesn’t believe rules are absolute or good enough is good enough. We’re looking for someone special. Maybe that someone is you?

This role will suit an experienced and ambitious senior strategist looking for the opportunity to step up and join a fast-growing team. Healthcare experience is essential and you must be well-versed in leading the strategic capability on major global business and overseeing planning across a portfolio of accounts. As well as your skills and experience we’ll look closely at what you bring to the role in terms of personality and style.

We’re an energetic team, with a shared purpose to do outstanding work in health and wellness, and we are looking for fresh ideas and energy that will move the agency forward. The job requires collaboration, creativity and resilience; being there for your team when things get challenging is essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross functional commercial, marketing, brand and creative strategies
• Distil complex go-to market strategies into simple, winning strategic stories
• Understand the client business from a franchise or portfolio level where required and join the dots across complex portfolio, advising client teams on big picture portfolio strategies and co-positioning
• Manage complex creative and portfolio architecture across multiple audiences, objectives and stakeholders
• Integrate equity management tools and measures into strategic brand planning and can steer brand communications to drive brand value
• Facilitate multi-team and multi-agency briefing process, leading strategic and tactical briefs across accounts
• Build, support and defend the best possible creative product through solid strategic argument
• Lead the creative validation and concept testing process without losing creative excellence, taking clients along on the creative journey
• Partner with scientific strategists, leveraging their insight and deep scientific understanding to build superior evidence-based strategy, ensuring scientific insight is pulled through into commercial and creative strategy
• Take leadership in development of omni-channel comms planning for clients
• Champion innovative channel ideas driven by insight and data, and find new creative platforms to reach customers, integrating strategy, creativity and technology
• Lead the team in data and analytics to help measure and track communications
• Manage research and insight design, translating data into compelling insight
• Lead audience interviews / surveys to extract insight
• Monitor client and competitor activity, keeping on top of market trends, M&A, new product launches, market and brand growth statistics and market financial reports as well as identifying new business opportunities to bring to the agency
• Own strategy and lead presentations in large scale pitches, client meetings and workshops
• Construct, run and moderate workshops from large to small client teams, across all strategic situations – commercial, go-to-market, creative and communications
• Work with the account team to grow existing business, with proven experience in delivering organic growth
• Line manage and mentor others in the team
• Lead the development of planning tools and defining the strategic way of working for the brand strategy team
• Actively network across the agency and the Groupe, looking to access tools and skills to bring innovation to the agency
• Play a key part of the strategic team at Saatchi Wellness, working with the Head of Strategy to set the direction and agenda for the broader cross disciplinary team

Qualifications

Additional Information

Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness has fantastic benefits on offer to all of our employees. In addition to the classics, Pension, Life Assurance, Private Medical and Income Protection Plans we also offer;

Full details of our benefits will be shared when you join us!

Publicis Groupe operates a hybrid working pattern with full time employees being office-based three days during the working week.

We are supportive of all candidates and are committed to providing a fair assessment process. If you have any circumstances (such as neurodiversity, physical or mental impairments or a medical condition) that may affect your assessment, please inform your Talent Acquisition Partner. We will discuss possible adjustments to ensure fairness. Rest assured, disclosing this information will not impact your treatment in our process.

Please make sure you check out the Publicis Career Pagewhich showcases our Inclusive Benefits and our EAG’s (Employee Action Groups).

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