Contract Management Operations Excellence yst

Position: Digital Strategy Director

Location: London

Salary: 80,000 p/a

Summary

An amazing opportunity for you to join a proper, award winning, mid-sized ad-agency in the centre of London as a Digital Strategy Director.

About the Company

Proudly non-corporate and with a passion for doing the right thing to deliver success for their clients within a unique and inspiring working culture. We encourage an entrepreneurial attitude where you get out what you put in and are a profoundly independent agency.

Our freedom philosophy lives across our entire business from people, product, and planning. It means we plan & buy media how we want, develop careers how we want, take holiday when we need it, invent tools when we need them, give people a platform to speak up, question and express themselves freely - but more importantly it has allowed us to create an amazing place to work.

Now around 300-people strong with wonderful offices and some flexibility to WFH.

Company benefits are second to none and our free staff bar is always open!

The Role

We are looking for someone to join our strategy team a collection of brilliant, curious, and creative generalists. However, for this role, we are looking for that skillset with an additional specialist focus on digital, tech, and data - and who can offer us the following attributes and experience...

A passionate leader that can inspire teams both internally and externally

Commercially savvy

To have a strong one-on-one relationship with each of your senior clients CMOs, CEOs, etc

You will be responsible for the quality of strategic digital thinking on several client accounts

You will have a strong practitioner-level understanding of digital media, adtech/martech, and how to use first, second and third-party datasets to give clients a demonstrable competitive advantage

Help clients grow their business with creative problem solving and digital transformation projects from analytics to data clean rooms, to good old-fashioned planning

To provide clarity and direction on key clients accounts

To be able to consult on a marketing/business strategy level (not just media) to keep our client thinking upstream

To deliver nuanced digital strategies for each brand, led by insight and evidence

Identify growth opportunities across the business and lead teams to deliver solutions

Understand the marketplace and be able to translate into clear actionable plans or opportunities for clients

To pitch fresh and innovative ideas to clients

To stay in touch with cutting-edge tech, measurement techniques, and media owners to keep us ahead of the market, upskilling the agency on these developments

To ensure strategic recommendations are evident in implementation

To keep an ear to the ground at industry events, reporting back to the agency

To increase our strategic profile by writing and publishing perspectives and thought pieces

To lead the digital, tech, and data strategy in new business pitches when needed

Requirements

You will live and breathe digital, tech, and data strategy and be an innovative forward-facer always looking to discover and test the best new developments that are right for your client

A thinker and creative problem solver, who can set out clear ideas that make a difference to client businesses and to the agency itself

A convincing presenter, able to sell strategies to clients and inspire them to buy in to breakthrough ideas that don t follow category conventions

You will be pragmatic a doer , someone who rolls up their sleeves and gets the job done

Able to translate digital possibilities and strategic direction into executional guidance

We are an agency built on culture and collaboration you will have great interpersonal skills and be confident speaking to teammates, clients, other agencies and media owners, politely and positively, with the ability to make the complex simple

A strong work ethic you will be self-motivated and able to take the initiative as a leader or integral member of your team get it done!

Keen to contribute to agency life beyond your core day to day role you will have the opportunity to join one of the leadership teams who shape our initiatives across the agency

More than anything, we want to work with people who are naturally curious and optimistic

You will live and breathe digital, tech, and data strategy and be an innovative forward-facer always looking to discover and test the best new developments that are right for your client A thinker and creative problem solver, who can set out clear ideas that make a difference to client businesses and to the agency itself A convincing presenter, able to sell strategies to clients and inspire them to buy in to breakthrough ideas that don t follow category conventions You will be pragmatic a doer , someone who rolls up their sleeves and gets the job done Able to translate digital possibilities and strategic direction into executional guidance We are an agency built on culture and collaboration you will have great interpersonal skills and be confident speaking to teammates, clients, other agencies and media owners, politely and positively, with the ability to make the complex simple A strong work ethic you will be self-motivated and able to take the initiative as a leader or integral member of your team get it done! Keen to contribute to agency life beyond your core day to day role you will have the opportunity to join one of the leadership teams who shape our initiatives across the agency More than anything, we want to work with people who are naturally curious and optimistic