Strategy Director, 6 month FTC

Strategy Director, 6 month FTC

Hybrid : 3 days in 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 experienced consumer / FMCG Strategy Director to join the team for a 6 month contract fixed term contract Key Responsibilities :

• Able to confidently shape the narrative across multiple complex projects, and persuasively sell in future brand strategies to clients and their agency partners
• Lead a full breadth of strategy projects (i.e. positioning, architecture, naming, design, activation) across consumer / FMCG industries
• Accurately and actively define and scope projects
• Foster strong relationships; become a trusted strategic advisor internally and externally with colleagues and clients
• Anchor the delivery of the strategy across all points of connected experience, and identify new opportunities for delivery of the strategy in partnership with Strategy Directors
• Work with the team and across teams to help shape efforts towards achieving client, agency and project goals, pursuing effective working strategies as you go
• Ensure strategy work is delivered profitably, working effectively with the team to deliver profitable projects
• Identify revenue opportunities from existing clients and from the application of new methodologies : proactively developing plans to extend client relationships
• Develop a solid understanding of the FutureBrand offering and disciplines and of our clients’ business and clearly articulate this.
• Proactively suggest ideas to inspire the team and shape team meetings
• In partnership with your counterparts in creative and client servicing embed an effective way of working, co-developing and innovating our methodologies and approaches
• Bring in leading edge thinking from the world around us, seen as a thought leader you develop and drive the narrative arc of internal projects
• You crystallise your thinking and provide thought leadership
• Contribute to a highly collaborative and energized atmosphere in which collaboration and positive disruption are encouraged
• Champion team members, support their development and give them opportunities to contribute. Use your knowledge and experience to advise, guide and inspire the team on how to shape and deliver great work, providing hands on support and mentoring. Identify and address any development areas within the team

Skills and Competencies You will be an established Strategy professional with :

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.