Head of Brand Strategy

Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf, UK (On-site)

£5K/mo – £6K/moSenior Level6+ years expPermanent

Posted 3 weeks ago

Top 1% of applicants do these two things.

The other 99% submit and hope. You're about to do something different.

Job Summary

Shape brand strategy and messaging for multi client and internal projects while steering creative direction and cross‑functional reviews.

  • Brand Strategy: Own positioning, messaging direction, and creative planning across campaigns to tighten client impact.
  • Stakeholder Alignment: Present strategy to clients and teams, and translate decisions into actionable next steps.
  • Market-Driven Positioning: Use trends, audience insight, and goals to sharpen brand choices and drive outcomes.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own and lead brand strategy, messaging, and creative direction across campaigns and client work.
  • Align with clients and cross functional teams to present strategy and translate decisions into actionable next steps.
  • Synthesize market trends, audience insights, and goals to sharpen positioning and drive campaign impact.

Requirements

  • At least 6 years of experience in brand strategy, creative strategy, marketing strategy, agency work, brand management, or a similar senior creative role.
  • Previous experience leading brand projects, creative teams, client accounts, agencies, freelancers, or cross functional project teams is strongly preferred.
  • Strong knowledge of brand positioning, messaging, audience insight, campaign planning, creative direction, and brand identity development.
  • You understand how brand strategy connects to customer trust, lead generation, client retention, market visibility, and long term business growth.
  • You can explain brand strategy clearly to clients, senior management, creative teams, and non technical stakeholders.
  • You are confident handling unclear briefs, client concerns, creative challenges, changing priorities, and competitive market pressure.
  • You are strategic, creative, commercially aware, and detail focused. You know how to balance strong ideas, client expectations, brand consistency, and business results.

Preferred

  • Previous experience leading brand projects, creative teams, client accounts, agencies, freelancers, or cross functional project teams is strongly preferred.

Benefits

  • Free parking
  • On-site parking
  • Private medical insurance
  • Sick pay