Director Strategy

New York, USA (Hybrid)

$75K/yr – $180K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 5 months ago

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Job Summary

A strategic role focused on shaping and activating client-facing strategies, with emphasis on research, AI-enabled tooling, and cross-team collaboration. It highlights leadership, business development, and measurement to demonstrate impact. Requirements emphasize experience in brand strategy, CPG, and staying ahead of industry trends, while benefits note a competitive package.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Strategic Product Strategic Leadership: Develop the strategic approach and outcomes to effectively solve client challenges, ensuring alignment with business objectives and market factors, leveraging VML's strategic processes and resources.
  • Strategic Craft: Develop compelling insights, strategic frameworks, and clear, concise narratives, translating complex data into actionable opportunities.
  • Research & Analysis: Proficiently use various research methodologies (qualitative and quantitative) and actively leverage VML's tools and resources, while proactively exploring new ones. Identify significant research findings and synthesize them into actionable analyses, insights, and strategies that inform impactful creative solutions.
  • Strategic Activation: Translate approved strategies into compelling and effective activations, ensuring seamless execution across all channels.
  • AI Engineering & Prompting: Understands the capabilities and limitations of AI in marketing and brand strategy, explores and experiments with AI tools to enhance strategic development and execution.
  • Strategic Process
  • Business Development: Identify and communicate opportunities to grow client business. Play a key role in new business pitches, including developing pitch strategy and presenting to prospective clients.
  • Project Scoping & Management: Collaborate with Strategy and Client Leadership teams to ensure appropriate project scoping, managing resources and budgets effectively.
  • Awards & Recognition: Contribute to the writing of WARC 100 Award entries, showcasing the impact and effectiveness of client and team work.
  • Measurement and Optimization: Utilize VML's tools to measure and demonstrate the impact of strategy and work on client business outcomes. Act as a brand guardian, continuously optimizing strengths and mitigating challenges.
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VML is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, to create connected brands that drive growth. VML is celebrated for its innovative and award-winning work with blue chip client partners including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Intel, Microsoft, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy's. The agency is recognized by the Forrester WaveTM Reports, which name WPP a “Leader” in Commerce Services, Global Digital Experience Services, Global Marketing Services and, most recently, Marketing Measurement & Optimization. In addition, VML’s specialist health network, VML Health, is one of the world’s largest and most awarded health agencies. VML’s global network is powered by 28,000 talented people across 60-plus markets, with principal offices in Kansas City, New York, Detroit, London, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, and Sydney. VML is a WPP agency (NYSE: WPP). For more information, please visit www.vml.com, and follow along on Instagram, LinkedIn, and X. #WeAreVML

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