Strategy Director

Responsibilities

• Contribute to a culture that grows and motivates colleagues and clients to adopt Disruption and new methodologies uncovered as central to brand efforts
• Manage and mentor junior strategists to foster engagement through learning and development that leads to career growth
• Develop meaningful and productive client relationships to ensure strategic recommendations exceed expectations
• Help create and facilitate agency and client ideation sessions. Must be able to employ Disruption and other facilitation session tools
• Be a methodological and analytical leader in driving client and agency research through new ways of gaining insight into our brands
• Contribute to and lead various aspects of Disruption Live by finding trending topics and monitoring macro-trends in culture
• Work with account and creative managers to create brand positioning, Disruption roadmaps, and creative briefs
• Facilitate efforts at generating insights from a variety of data sources to ensure development of Disruptive creative and brand ideas
• Contribute to new business pitches by managing customer insight generation, which is tied to pitch product clinical data
• Interview target prospects to generate pitch content and story flow from findings

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years’ prior work experience, preferably in an agency environment (pharmaceutical experience highly desired; oncology experience a plus)
• General computer proficiency, including fluency in PowerPoint; Experience using generative AI tools in strategy workstreams, a plus.
• Prior internal team and brand strategy experience, including creative brief development, and delivery, and ongoing support of creative ideation.
• A foundational skill set defined by
• Research/data focus
• Independence
• Patience, confidence, and leadership
• Creativity and strategic agility
• Oratory talent, verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to command a room
• Sound judgment and discretion for conflict resolution.

Preferred

• oncology experience a plus
• Experience using generative AI tools in strategy workstreams, a plus