Strategy Director

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

A flexible, hybrid working policy (2 days from the office, depending on location).

An excellent salary based on experience and equal pay policies

Pension, free private healthcare, mental health support, and company sick pay scheme.

26 days paid holiday (plus UK Bank Holidays).

Refreshments are provided in the office all week, as well as drinks at 4 pm on a Thursday.

Help getting you to work with a season ticket loan and cycle to work scheme.

Enhanced family friendly policies to support new parents.

We are a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, we create what is next by pioneering ideas, acting fast, and moving further because standing still just is not in our DNA.

We are drawn to people who stay curious, move with intent, and never stop inventing. Our culture runs on three values: better together, relentlessly curious, and get sh*t done. It is how we work, how we grow, and how we make things that matter.

At DEPT®, you will find the freedom to explore, the space to collaborate, and the trust to make a real impact for our clients, for each other, and for the world we are helping to build.

At DEPT®, we take pride in creating an inclusive workplace where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive. We actively seek to recruit, develop, nurture, and retain talented individuals from diverse backgrounds, with varying skills and perspectives.

Not sure you meet all qualifications? Apply, and let us decide! Research shows that women and members of underrepresented groups tend not to apply for jobs when they think they may not meet every requirement, when in fact they do. We believe in giving everyone a fair chance to shine.

We also encourage you to reach out to us and discuss any reasonable adjustments we can make to support you throughout the recruitment process and your time with us.

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