Responsibilities

• The Group Strategy Director helps usher in D&G’s next generation planning function.
• Portfolio includes successful product-market analyses, go-to-market strategies, and business transformation thought leadership articles alongside serious creative accolades.
• They are deeply engaged with the multidisciplinary team on that account, and will help our CSO elevate, direct and grow our strategy practice, ensuring we have the best-in-class tools, techniques and talent.
• They are responsible for identifying opportunities for the agency to grow client relationships through proactive thinking and recommendations.
• They are a vital ally to the Executive Creative Director in ideating and creating brave, beautiful campaigns, and to the Group Account Director in upleveling the account service department to a consultative business practice.

Requirements

• 12 – 15 years of advertising agency, research, client-side and/or consulting experience working on a challenger brand (s)
• Demonstrated successes in identifying market-, brand-, media-, and customer-driven data and insights to produce groundbreaking work, effecting work for national brand(s)
• Fully integrated chops (traditional, digital, media, CRM, social, mobile)
• Expertise in qualitative and quantitative research
• Not an asshole
• A self-starter with insatiable curiosity, drive and hunger
• As passionate about the work, as they are compassionate about the people
• Highly collaborative, with a successful track record of leading happy, productive, diverse teams across disciplines, agencies and personalities
• A super-smart, indispensable contributor to the work and our culture, who mentors and empowers others to do the same
• A persuasive and inspiring communicator, adept at managing up, down and cross-stream stakeholders in real-time and sometimes in politically-charged environments