Strategy Director

2 weeks ago

Adelaide, South Australia Wavemaker Full time

About the Role

As a Strategy Director at Wavemaker, you will be responsible for driving transformative strategic thinking and ideas across a diverse range of high-profile clients. You will leverage your natural curiosity and thought-provoking behavior to bring innovative solutions to the agency's work, ensuring it remains fresh and impactful. Your role will involve collaborating with teams across the agency to bring these strategies to life in the most innovative and impactful way possible. Additionally, you will be responsible for driving the overall quality of product across the wider agency through training and coaching.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement transformative strategic thinking and ideas across high-profile clients
  • Collaborate with teams across the agency to bring strategies to life
  • Drive the overall quality of product across the wider agency through training and coaching

Requirements

  • Willingness to collaborate and draw in experts when needed
  • Positive, articulate, and an outstanding creative problem solver
  • Ability to tell a compelling story through data, business context, and human behavior
  • Willingness to be a hands-on and team player
  • High level of EQ to develop strong working relationships within the agency, with other agency partners, the media, and senior clients
  • Professional, ambitious, and keen to develop the agency profile through outstanding work
  • Strong, up-to-date media landscape knowledge to confidently articulate macroeconomic and consumer trends and forecast challenges/opportunities for clients
  • Inspiring communicator with clear written and verbal communication skills
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the patience to examine detail and create solutions
  • Collaborative and astute, able to build trust and respect within a network
  • First-class negotiation skills
  • Results-driven
  • Passionate about delivering business results for clients, with the ability to identify and clearly articulate what's working and why

What Success Looks Like

The easiest and simplest way to see if you have done a great job is when:

  • In 3 months:
    • Been exposed to client teams within Wavemaker and learned their key planning and campaign cycles
    • Understood the Wavemaker ANZ planning process and how it intersects with Wavemaker Momentum
    • Established collaborative relationships with all key stakeholders and internal reports
    • A strong understanding of and can clearly articulate the agency and group proposition
    • Started to deliver strategic responses to client briefs and begun building a rapport with clients
    • Got up to speed on all analytic projects in the works and started to define how and where you can lead and support the teams
  • In 6 months:
    • Mastery of the finer points of the Wavemaker planning process (through either a full Wavemaker Momentum study on a category and through day-to-day use) and provided guidance and training to the client teams on this process
    • Been introduced to the wider Wavemaker network and started to build your profile across the national strategy and analytics team in GroupM
    • Been involved from on at least one Wavemaker Momentum study
    • Become a trusted, first point of contact for key clients
    • Meaningfully contributed to strategy responses for new business pitches
  • In 12 months:
    • Become an integral part of the Wavemaker new business team – a go-to person for pitch strategy work
    • Materiably contributed to the overall Wavemaker planning process – improving how we approach and solve tough problems for clients
    • Materiably contributed to a thought leadership piece that helps build Wavemaker's profile amongst clients and the industry
    • Become a trusted point of contact for strategic and analytics advice across all Wavemaker staff

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