Associate Strategy Director / Senior Strategist

Associate Strategy Director / Senior StrategistHybrid (3 days in our Bishopsgate, London office)FutureBrand : We’re FutureBrand, the flagship branding agency within the multi-award-winning global advertising agency network McCann Worldgroup.24 years young with a head full of big brand experience and a gaze fixed firmly on the future, our work over the last two decades has changed the brand landscape today. What we do next will change tomorrow. We’re based in some of the most exciting and vibrant cities on the planet, balancing global scale with cultural connection. That means we’re on the doorstep of many of the world’s biggest brands, and within reach of the very best talent around.Together, we are a diverse brand, experience and design community who believe that brand is how a company’s people, products and services behave wherever and whenever they show up in the world. Our work focuses on measuring and maximizing brand behaviour by connecting corporate purpose with everyday lived experience.It's through this work that we deliver our purpose : To transform the future of businesses by changing how their brands behave today. And because we believe strongly that the future our brands create must be a future for us all, our shared values - Progressive, Adaptable, Collaborative and Empowering - put difference and diversity at our core.We're now looking for an Associate Strategy Director (or an experienced Senior Senior Strategist) to help lead our FMCG brand team.

You play a crucial role in delivering brand strategies. You will use your knowledge and experience to think about how we could do things differently, try new approaches and put them into practice. Key Responsibilities :

• Develop a point of view as to how to use a future brand strategy to deliver a more connected brand experience
• Bring in leading edge thinking and ideas from the world around us to develop projects, seen as a thought leader you develop and drive the narrative arc of projects
• Bring in ideas and influences from the outside world and apply these into projects
• Experiment with new approaches and create new opportunities within projects to develop our offer and broaden / deepen our relationships with clients
• Provide inspiration for building future brands, generating hypotheses
• Steer and shape the internal building and testing of those hypotheses, providing relevant reference points from inside and outside the category
• Crystallise your thinking and provide thought leadership
• Build strong relationships and collaborate within the strategy team and across the agency
• Ensure that our work and ideas will be practical and impactful
• Lead a full breadth of strategy projects (i.e. positioning, architecture, naming, design, activation) across multiple industries
• Participate in and lead new business pitches
• Nurture, mentor and support junior team members. Use your experience to advise the team on how to shape and deliver great work.
• Contribute to a highly collaborative and energized atmosphere in which collaboration and positive disruption are encouraged
• Develop a strong understanding of the FutureBrand offering and disciplines and of our clients’ business and clearly articulate this.

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Equal Opportunities : We believe that ideas get better when they are inherently diverse and shared in highly inclusive ways and we want to hear from those who think differently from us. We truly believe in the strength of diversity and the richness it can bring. By bringing different people together great things happen. FutureBrand is an equal opportunity employer (EEO). We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.FutureBrand is a disability-confident committed employer and will guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets the minimum criteria for the role.