Strategy Director

3 weeks ago

Chicago, United States The Ogilvy Group Full time

About Ogilvy

Ogilvy has been creating impact for brands through iconic, culture-changing, value-driving ideas since the company was founded by David Ogilvy 75 years ago. It builds on that rich legacy through Borderless Creativity - innovating at the intersections of its advertising, public relations, relationship design, consulting, and health capabilities with experts collaborating seamlessly across over 120 offices in nearly 90 countries. Ogilvy currently ranks as the #1 global agency network for creative excellence and effectiveness by WARC, signifying its ability todeliver creative solutions that drive unreasonable impact for clients and communities.Ogilvy is a WPP company (NYSE: WPP). For more information, visitOgilvy.com, and follow us on LinkedIn,X,Instagram, and Facebook.

About the Role

As a Strategy Director you are a leader who opens the aperture of opportunity on the account. You are highly collaborative with account and creative. Through directly managing junior planners &/or mentoring other Ogilvy strategists, you reinforce your own skillset. You aren't just delegating; you create opportunities for people around you. You have a perspective on brands & consumers, and you speak from knowledge and experience, where your insight into consumer attitudes and behaviors is the source of your authority.

What You'll Do
  • Develop brand strategies, write creative briefs, guide development and presentation of the creative work
  • Bring proactive ideas to clients to push brands into new spaces
  • Design and implementation of research projects to address client business issues, gain insight into target audiences and testing ad concepts
  • Manage and direct a team of Senior Strategists, Strategists, Associate Strategists, and interns who are assigned to the Strategy Director's accounts
  • Provide professional development opportunities and on-the-job training as needed
What You'll Need
  • 7+ years of planning/brand strategy experience
  • Managerial experience
  • Ability to run day-to-day account work & pitches
  • Contributes thought leadership and best practices to the department
  • Comfortable with high-level client exposure; must be able to lead conversations, speak their language, and interview C-Suite executives without a hitch
  • Strong stage presence
  • Experience working in the B2B space (understanding of Co-Op Marketing and Co-Branding a plus)
  • Ability to understand and work within complex businesses, with multiple marketing budgets and stakeholders across various business units within one organization
  • Ability to balance clients' long-term branding initiatives with short-term sales goals to develop campaigns that work across time horizons and meet the needs of various stakeholders
  • Ability to understand complicated solutions (engines, powertrains, IT environments) and discover the meaningful benefits they bring to B2B buyers
How We'll Support You

Ogilvy celebrates its people. Fully. Enthusiastically. Unhesitatingly. We'll empower you with the tools you'll need to succeed. We'll give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. We'll support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. And we'll provide opportunities for you to do work of which you'll be proud, with people you'll be proud to call your teammates.

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At Ogilvy, our people are at the heart of what we do: a creative agency that sparks game-changing ideas across culture and business through collaboration, integrity, and a celebration of self-expression.

We believe in building powerful teamswithpurpose. This means hiring and nurturing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, abilities, sexual orientation, and gender identities - and we relentlessly curate transformative initiatives that make our commitment to fairness, and equity a reality.

Our ultimate mission is to leave a positive impact on the world, creating a better future for all, while supporting and uplifting the global communities we serve. This is central to our mantra of Borderless Creativity.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

If you require reasonable accommodation to complete a job application, pre-employment testing, or a job interview or to otherwise participate in the hiring process, please do not hesitate to let your recruiter know.

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