Strategy Director

DEPT® is a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, our 4,000+ specialists deliver growth invention services across Brand & Media, Experience, Commerce, CRM, and Technology & Data. We’re 50|50 tech and marketing, partner-led, and first to move. Clients include Google, Lufthansa, Meta, eBay, and OpenAI. We have been certified B Corp and Climate Neutral since 2021. JOB PURPOSE This position sits in our Marketing & Technology service based in London. We combine data, technology, creative content, and paid media to crack brands’ business problems & drive revenue through a variety of digital marketing solutions like ad campaigns, augmented reality, and chatbots. Our clients include ASOS, Just Eat Takeaway, Twitch, TikTok, and The White Company. We are excited to be looking for a new Strategy Director to join the team! This Strategy Director will join a London based service whose specialism is producing award winning, digital and social, creative campaigns and content for a variety of well known and culturally current clients. We are looking for a Strategy Director to create & execute top class strategies that allow us to deliver creative excellence for our clients across a range of briefs. To work on these diverse briefs we currently have an excellent roster of creative skillsets and the current creative team includes specialists in editorial, influencer, content, campaign, branding, production and more. The Strategy Director will work & integrate with the creative specialist and guide these creative disciplines as well as wider teams, such as media, tech, data. The UK Strategy offering is small yet mighty and collaborates with wider EMEA Strategy teams. This person will ensure that we continue those relationships with wider EMEA and global strategy teams to identify talent, resources and shared processes and tools. The Strategy Director will be expected to deliver: Creative Excellence: we are focussed on the work and this person will be a key player in ensuring top class strategies across a range of briefs, with a lean into social, influencer and culture led content Innovation: instill market-leading innovations in digital and social strategy that our clients couldn’t get anywhere else Provoke : inspire the team to deliver big & bold ideas with impact, all aimed to deliver on our clients’ business challenges or ambitions. Building & maintaining trusted client relationships: being on speed dial for our clients to align on challenges, opportunities or ambitions. In this, utilising the most advanced thinking and approaches to deliver incremental improvements on ROI for any type of business. Lead and guide: a range of (creative) strategic disciplines. We're looking for a modern strategist that is able to stitch together a lot of disciplines and set out a clear trajectory to fix our clients' challenges. Rooted in today's culture and all the touch point we have at hand; from social, to influencer, to TTL KEY RESPONSIBILITIES The role of Strategy Director is exciting, varied and constantly evolving. In this role, you will: Nurture and build out our team of talented strategists from every aspect of the marketing discipline Lead hands on with one key account to drive the most pioneering work. Ensure creative excellence by closely collaborating with the existing creative teams. Work closely with wider EMEA and UK and global strategy teams to identify talent and resources and shared processes and tooling Lead- and guide a range of (creative) strategic disciplines; We're looking for a modern strategist that is able to stitch together a lot of disciplines and set out a clear trajectory to fix our clients' challenges. Rooted in today's culture and all the touch points we have at hand; from social, to influencer, to TTL Innovate our offering working closely with tech, creative, media and analytics to ensure we are delivering market-leading st…