Head of Strategy

OMD Sydney - Multi Award Winning Agency
Head of Strategy
- Full Time, Ongoing
- Sydney
- [Reporting to the Chief Product Officer

What's in it for you?
- Access to top tier clients and complex business challenges
- Continuous development through our mixed learning approach
- All the tools, equipment and mentors you need to be successful in your role
- Our organisation encourages diversity, supports charities and environmental initiatives
- We have a bright, open plan and dog friendly office (we love our furry friends)
- We encourage and fully support flexible working
- Parental leave
- Fun social events - Annual ski trips

Details regarding the role

The ambition for OMD's Sydney Head of Strategy is for OMD to be strategic leaders amongst our clients and our industry. The team are accountable for strategies with measurable outcomes aligned to brand / business KPIs, that create innovative, effective work in market that makes our clients famous. Our strategic approach is equally proactive in driving solutions and thought leadership as it is reactive to client and brand briefs. It is critical for the Head of Strategy to ensure strategic collaboration across the agency with business teams, SBUs and media partners.
- Responsible for training and uptake of OMD Design planning process, and OMNI, OMD's marketing orchestration platform champion
- Lead Strategy team in creating identifiable, bespoke and innovative brand / business and comms strategies for clients
- Partner client business leaders, Resolution and create teams to ensure measurable, sound and proven strategic outcomes
- Further recruit and develop strategy talent within the agency. Establish distinct role for each team member and support their client goals to achieve brand and business KPIs
- Mentor/ Lead account teams as they write strategies for our clients, ensuring adherence to our strategic process, OMD Design and utilising our proprietary tools.
- Developing innovative communication strategies on key clients, which tangibly shapes, influences and inspires key client thinking
- Work with our specialist OMD Insights unit to identify and develop proprietary research solutions for our clients
- Continue to grow strategy client contracted FTE % and out of scope projects to deliver pure revenue stream for OMD
- Champion OMD's reputation as a “strategic communication agency”
- Collaborate with specialist business units (SBUs) for additional strategy consultancy projects, charged on head hour basis

Who you Are
- Experience educating and mentoring strategists, planners and those with a passion for strategy to build our agency strategic advantage
- Able to ensure strategic collaboration across the agency with business teams, SBUs and media partners
- Inspirational people leader able to manage a high performing team of direct and indirect reports
- Know how to drive data solutions for clients to help identify high value prospects based on the single source view in collaboration with The Head of Digital
- Ability to identify influential data currencies to provide linkage between commercial goals and results, and media / comms behaviour
- Experienced in producing, publishing and presenting thought leadership pieces as relevant to industry and category trends to share and present regularly.
- Review, refine and elevate strategy presentations from your team to ensure quality control in our work, and aid growth for our people.
- Work upstream with key planning media partnerships to work with media planners, content creators (including editorial, production teams) for proactive and reactive client solutions.
- Ability to brainstorm facilitation with account teams, creatives, clients
- In-depth understanding of the media planning and buying process
- Demonstrated experience within media agency environment

A bit about us
We are a proud part of the OMD global network, the world's leading marketing and communications agency. As part of the Omnicom Media Group, we provide services to over 5,000 clients in more than 100 countries and employ 11,000+ staff.
Since launching in 2000, OMD Australia has grown to become Australia's largest media and communications agency, consistently winning awards including:
**Great Place to Work | Ranked #3, Platinum Status**: Top 50 for 13 consecutive years (2009-2021) B&T | Media Agency of the Year 2019, 2020 & 2021, Culture 2020 B&T Women in Media | Employer of the Year 2019 & 2020 Adnews | Media Agency of the Year 2020, Overall Agency of the Year 2020 Mumbrella | Media Agency of the Decade 2009 - 2019, Culture 2019 Adweek | Global Media Agency of the Year 2019 & 2020

Next steps

We are a committed Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and are dedicated to ensuring that all employees, and prospective employees, can work in an environment that is free from any form of employment discrimination based on race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital or parental status, physical or m