Senior Director, Strategy

New York City, NY (On-site)

$210K/yr – $260K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Lead strategic engagements across geographies and disciplines, shaping executive agendas and unlocking long-term value.

  • Lead multi-workstream client programs that span senior leadership, diverse geographies, and complex disciplines.
  • Push provocative, Three Lenses-informed discussions to drive transformational impact and lasting competitive advantage.
  • Build executive credibility, nurture talent, and contribute to Interbrand’s growth and thought leadership.

Job Description

Lead strategic engagements across geographies and disciplines, shaping executive agendas and unlocking long-term value.

  • Responsibilities: Lead our most complex and strategically significant client engagements, often across multiple workstreams, geographies, and disciplines
  • Responsibilities: Build and steward relationships with our most important clients at the highest executive levels, acting as a counselor who shapes their strategic agenda and unlocks long-term partnership value
  • Responsibilities: Use our Thinking & Making approach and Three Lenses (Human Truth, Brand Economics, Experience) to push provocative discussions, challenge conventional thinking, and ensure our strategies create transformational impact
  • Responsibilities: Present and influence at the highest levels with authority, charisma, and conviction, building confidence in our ideas and our approach
  • Responsibilities: Lead, mentor, and develop senior strategy talent, providing counsel that allows them to produce outstanding work and grow into their full potential
  • Responsibilities: Shape the strategic direction of the office or region, working with leadership to set priorities, build capabilities, and drive both qualitative and quantitative growth goals
  • Responsibilities: Drive significant new business by building market relationships, leading major pitches, identifying strategic opportunities, and helping define our competitive positioning
  • Responsibilities: Represent Interbrand externally through speaking, writing, media, industry events, and conferences, building our reputation and attracting future talent and clients
  • Responsibilities: Contribute to Interbrand's global thought leadership and evolving methodology, helping shape where our discipline and our offer are going next
  • Responsibilities: Champion a culture of feedback, accountability, and excellence, role modeling the behaviors that make Interbrand a place where people do their best work
  • Requirements: Experience Lead portfolios of clients, overseen a large team and, or been in either a Head of or regional role previously. You've built a reputation for exceptional strategic thinking, led transformational client engagements, developed senior talent, and played a significant role in growing a business.
  • Requirements: Strategic thinking You're a provocative thinker who constantly pushes the boundaries of what strategy can be. You diagnose what truly matters, reframe the conversation, and build strategies that combine Human Truth, Brand Economics, and Experience in ways that create lasting competitive advantage. You champion breakthrough ideas and know how to make them real.
  • Requirements: Communication You communicate with authority and presence. You write with conviction, present with charisma, and facilitate conversations that unlock transformational thinking. You adapt seamlessly to any audience and know how to inspire confidence, build consensus, and move people to action.
  • Requirements: Collaboration You build deep trust across the organization and with clients. You bring people together around ambitious visions, elevate the thinking of everyone around you, and create environments where diverse perspectives lead to breakthrough outcomes.
  • Requirements: Independence and ownership You take full accountability for your clients, your teams, and your contribution to the business. You balance strategic ambition with commercial reality, ensuring client satisfaction, team growth, and business profitability. You set the example for what ownership looks like.
  • Requirements: Curiosity You have an insatiable curiosity about brands, culture, business, and what's emerging. You stay ahead of where the world is going and bring that foresight into everything you do. You're passionate about the evolution of our craft and committed to shaping its future.
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Interbrand

Interbrand has been a world leading brand consultancy for 50 years – having pioneered iconic work and forged many of the brand building tools that are commonplace across the industry today.We know that in an age of unprecedented abundance of choice and speed of innovation, customers’ expectations are moving faster than business. While incremental change is still essential, it is no longer sufficient. It takes bold moves to leap ahead of customers and competitors. We call these moves Iconic Moves.In collaboration with the world’s leading brands, our global team of thinkers and makers are pioneering the future of brand building. By turning customers into active participants, we help our clients strengthen their brands on an ongoing basis – our approach gives them confidence to make Iconic Moves that spark desire and create utility, driving extraordinary results.Interbrand is a part of Omnicom Group (NYSE:OMC).

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826 employees (284 in marketing)

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