Strategy Director

7 days ago

Chicago, Illinois, United States Ogilvy Full time
About Ogilvy

Ogilvy is a global advertising, public relations, and marketing agency that has been creating impact for brands for over 75 years. With a rich legacy of innovation and creativity, Ogilvy continues to push boundaries through its Borderless Creativity approach, combining expertise in advertising, public relations, relationship design, consulting, and health capabilities to deliver creative solutions that drive unreasonable impact for clients and communities.

About the Role

As a Strategy Director at Ogilvy, you will be a leader who opens the aperture of opportunity on the account. You will be highly collaborative with account and creative teams, directly managing junior planners and mentoring other Ogilvy strategists to reinforce your own skillset. You will have a perspective on brands and consumers, speaking from knowledge and experience, where your insight into consumer attitudes and behaviors is the source of your authority.

Key Responsibilities
  • Develop brand strategies, write creative briefs, and guide the development and presentation of creative work.
  • Bring proactive ideas to clients to push brands into new spaces.
  • Design and implement research projects to address client business issues, gain insight into target audiences, and test ad concepts.
  • Manage and direct a team of Senior Strategists, Strategists, Associate Strategists, and interns assigned to the Strategy Director's accounts.
  • Provide professional development opportunities and on-the-job training as needed.
Requirements
  • 7+ years of planning/brand strategy experience.
  • Managerial experience.
  • Ability to run day-to-day account work and pitches.
  • Contributes thought leadership and best practices to the department.
  • Comfortable with high-level client exposure, leading conversations, speaking their language, and interviewing 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, give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things, and support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. 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.

We believe in building powerful teams with purpose, hiring and nurturing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, abilities, sexual orientation, and gender identities, and curating 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.

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