Strategy Director at Momentum Worldwide | New York City, NY | $130K/yr – $140K/yr

Momentum Worldwide

Strategy Director

New York City, NY (On-site)

$130K/yr – $140K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 4 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own cross functional brand strategy and senior client leadership, turning complex conversations into aligned, high impact work for luxury lifestyle brands.

Own multi stakeholder alignment and protect the work while pursuing growth opportunities.
Shape creative output with premium taste for a premium audience across decks, pitches and client interactions.
Mentor juniors and partner with leadership to elevate agency outputs and client outcomes.

Job Description

Responsibilities

Act as brand champion, serve as the dedicated strategic anchor for a multi-stakeholder account masterfully managing competing priorities and high-volume demands
Inject a high standard of taste, cultural relevance and aesthetic curation (across sport, music, entertainment, travel, dining and premium lifestyle), into every deck, pitch, and client interaction
Act as the primary "keeper and connector" of cross-functional conversations ensuring alignment across internal teams, clients and the IAT in service of our client’s business objectives
Look beyond the immediate brief to connect dots across multiple business conversations, synthesizing complex information and prioritizing based on audience.
Serve as a discerning judge of creative and strategic output, ensuring all work meets a high standard of excellence before it reaches the client
Partner closely with peer leadership to elevate the agency’s output, collaborate on new business, and refine deliverables
Manage senior client relationships with a high degree of emotional intelligence, maturity, and empathy
Read the room effectively during client interactions; understand not just what is being said, but the underlying subtext, and maneuver conversations to protect the work and advance business goals
Masterfully filter out corporate buzzwords to uncover the true business challenge, ensuring the team stays focused on what actually drives results and matters to the audience
Proactively identify, scope, and pursue organic growth and new business opportunities within assigned accounts.

Requirements

7+ years’ experience in brand, experiential or creative strategy within a marketing agency/consultative firm
Bachelor’s degree preferred
Demonstrated leadership and people management skills – able to lead projects independently and manage, inspire and grow a team of highly driven individuals
Proven track record of reporting directly into senior leadership and C-suite stakeholders
Experience working with legacy, luxury and lifestyle brands a plus
Willingness to travel and work non-traditional hours as needed

Momentum Worldwide

People are no longer satisfied with simply "hearing" a brand's message. Now it's the actual experiences we have with a brand that define its relevance—emotionally, socially and when it's time to buy. That's why Momentum Worldwide helps brands imagine, create, curate and manage their Total Brand Experience. Our job is to create meaning and connections for our clients and their brands.And in today’s world, where people demand corporate transparency and increased sustainability, this approach-redefining all the ways people experience a brand in action-is more important than ever. We integrate sponsorship, shopper, design, technology, social, promotions, PR, digital, entertainment and more in a total brand experience for the modern consumer. Quite simply, our job is to help brands flourish – and we do this as one global agency (within the IPG family of agencies) with 30 offices on five continents and more than 1,300 amazingly talented people—all of us working together, eager to invent, challenge the norm and set the world on fire. To make that possible, we hire people who are ravenous for ingenuity and impatient with the status quo. The biggest asset we have is our talent, and we take that seriously. And it helps that our company works with some incredible brands such as American Express, Coca-Cola, Mondelez, Microsoft, Walmart and William Grant & Sons to name a few.Join us! You could be a member of a growing team of people who love to imagine, concept, create, sculpt, sing, emote and dream in the interests of our clients and communities. We think it’s a special kind of calling. You should answer.

Founded in 1987

New York, New York, USA

1.3K employees (441 in marketing)

www.momentumww.com