Strategy Director
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Job Description
JDOs international team of designers brand strategists and client partners band together to deliver creative excellence to the worlds most loved and influential brands.
With a scope of services that includes branding & creative strategy packaging & product design innovation & sustainability solutions as well as experiential & campaign activation JDO forges brand worlds that ignite connection provoke emotion and keep brands relevant across an everchanging landscape.
At JDO we believe
- That complex problems can be smartly solved with ingenious elegant design
- That clients are our partners in creating positive change for our communities our culture and our planet
- That work should nurture wellbeing as well as pay our bills
- That the people you work with are as important as the brands you work on
- That diversity and inclusivity are not trends but the future
JDO STRATEGY
We are an eclectic team comprised of unique individuals that weave logic with magic to craft creative strategies that inspire influence and ignite change. Our favourite question is why and our belief in better drives our search for more effective methods and methodologies that will lead to more transformative ideas.
Beyond the skillset and the mindset necessary to deliver useful strategies that add value to our clients businesses each member our team possesses:
Cultural curiosity meaning a genuine interest in the world around themhow things work and what it all means.
Healthy scepticism meaning they never take things at face value questioningand interrogating everything on the quest for truth and deeper understanding.
Individuality meaning a oneofakind personality that adds different dynamicto our team with their own unique strengths and perspectives.
Collaborative meaning the need to work constructively together with both ourinternal multidiscipline teams as well as external with our clients.
JDO New York
A truly exciting entrepreneurial experience
From the heart of Flatiron our NY studio manages clients across North America.As part of this small yet dynamic team youll be able to shape the burgeoning culture of this studio upholding our high standards for strategic creativity and helping to establish best practice processes growing with the team as we growas an agency.
THE ROLE: STRATEGY DIRECTOR
Where creatives are problem solvers JDO Strategists are problem finders investigators with tenacious minds that obsess over the most minute detailsto identify the real problem at the heart of a clients brief.
Balancing objectivity and empathy they dive into the deep end to unearth valuable insights that can unlock the potential not only of what is creatively possible for our clients brands but also what is practical and purposeful.
Employing intelligence intuition and resourcefulness they see things other people do not connecting the dots and distilling the information in a way that is both easyto understand and inspirational to creatives and clients alike.
And they can tell a brilliant story one that are grounded in logic and weaved witha touch of magic and able to cohesively carry the brands essence across the full consumer experience.
The Strategy Director will report to the Global Head of Strategy who is based in the UK and have a dotted line into the Managing Director North America.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Growth Driver: Support the North American leadership team to identify and convert new business opportunities both within existing clients and new.
Cultivate Relationships: Establish strong bonds internally and externally cultivating trust through rapport with senior stakeholders elevating the conversation and JDOs reputation particularly on pillar accounts.
Commercially Savvy: Have a grasp of NA client targets and performanceof projects to drive efficiencies monitoring direct reports utilization.
Value Builder: Support in building strategy as a key revenue driver for the agency always seeking opportunities to add value and widen our remit through thought leadership or client farming initiatives.
Work Together: Build unbreakable bonds with the JDO team championing the process by providing strong strategic rationales that anchor and elevate their creative solutions.
Thought Leader: Keep the JDOs global team on the pulse of what is happening in the design market and consumer worlds whilst building our strategic competencies and improving skillsets and capabilities to solve problems comprehensively.
Nurture Talent: Seek out and nurture the strategic talent supporting the growth and development of the Strategy team by managing and monitoring direct reports personal development through objective setting.
EXPERIENCE NECESSARY
8 years of branding experience that spans different markets categories and industries; ideally must include working with brands in the alcohol personal care/beauty and luxury sectors.
A proven track record of success working with both established and entrepreneurial brands in delivering strategically driven creative strategies with an emphasis on 2D/3D packaging identity and innovation.
Ability to simplify the complex through rigour clarity and inspiration.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
We embrace individuality and diversity and employ irrespective of background age ethnicity colour gender disability sexual or religious orientation and marital status. We invest heavily in our people and help them drive their personal development. We offer very competitive salaries exceptional benefits and WFH flexibility.
Employment Type
Full Time
