Director New Business Venture Global Strategic Marketing
Johnson & Johnson
USA (Remote)
$150K/yr - $259K/yrIn-houseFull-timeDirector/executive7+ years exp.
4 hrs ago
Associate Director, Strategy
New York City, NY (Hybrid)
$125K/yr – $150K/yrSenior Level9+ years exp
Posted 4 weeks ago
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Job Summary
Build and own high impact strategy workstreams for brands, turning research and stakeholder input into crisp, actionable direction while shaping creative outcomes and client storytelling.
- Own significant strategy workstreams and lead client conversations to move work forward.
- Apply core strategy tools across audits, interviews, and workshops to structure strong recommendations.
- Develop trusted client relationships and manage up to keep scope, timing, and quality on track.
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Bring clarity to complex client challenges
- Help translate research, data, stakeholder input, and team discussion into clear strategic implications, choices, and recommendations.
- Lead strategy workstreams with increasing independence
- Own significant strategy workstreams or smaller engagements, keeping the work organized, focused, and moving.
- Apply core strategy tools and methods
- Use foundational strategy tools, research inputs, stakeholder interviews, audits, workshops, frameworks, and synthesis to help structure the work and develop stronger recommendations.
- Know when to apply a familiar method, when to adapt the approach, and when to seek guidance from senior strategy leadership.
- Build client confidence
- Develop trusted working relationships with clients through preparation, responsiveness, judgment, and clear communication.
- Lead client conversations and presentations in a way that invites useful dialogue, manages expectations, and helps move the work forward.
- Shape clear, useful strategic work
- Turn complex inputs into concise, well-structured deliverables, briefs, narratives, and recommendations.
- Connect strategic thinking to creative and design outcomes, including brand identity, messaging, campaigns, experiences, content, and other forms of activation.
- Support the work, the relationship, and the Strategy practice
- Partner with Directors, Engagement Leads, and cross-functional partners to keep the work focused, well-organized, and moving against scope, timing, resources, and quality expectations.
- Bring forward ideas, tools, examples, and points of view that improve the work while continuing to build strategic range, rigor, and confidence over time.
- A Bachelor's degree, or a more advanced degree, with 6-9 years of experience in brand strategy, marketing strategy, communications strategy, customer/audience strategy, consulting, research, or a related discipline.
- Experience developing insights, strategic recommendations, positioning, messaging, creative briefs, experience principles, or other client-ready strategy deliverables.
- A working command of foundational strategy tools and methods, including strategic frameworks, stakeholder interviews, workshop support, qualitative and quantitative research inputs, competitive/category analysis, audience insight development, and synthesis.
- Strong writing, presentation, facilitation, and communication skills.
- Comfort working across different clients, categories, assignment types, and levels of ambiguity.
- Ability to lead significant workstreams, collaborate across disciplines, and contribute to healthy engagement delivery.
- Ability to manage up, ask for guidance when needed, and continue building strategic range and rigor over time.
- The chance to be a part of a growing company and the next success story
- Amazing opportunities for career development
- Recognition programs
- Employee referral bonus
- Fun and collaborative work environment
- Casual dress code
- Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, vision, life, and disability)
- 401(k) retirement plan, with employer 4% match
- Work/life benefits, including mental health and wellbeing support
- Flexible Time Off Policy
VSA Partners
VSA’s purpose is to design for a better human experience. As a strategy and creative agency, we blend consumer insights and data with human-centered design to activate meaningful, motivating and measurable experiences in an increasingly noisy world. With offices in Chicago, New York and San Francisco, VSA offers a full range of fully integrated capabilities—branding, advertising, data science and technology—all under one roof. VSA is also a proud member of Meet The People, an international family of unified but independent agencies. For more than 40 years, we have delivered solutions for business and creative leaders at some of the world’s most respected brands and forward-thinking organizations, including Google, Nike and IBM.
