We are looking for an experienced Strategy Director with a strong background in brand and corporate strategy.

This role is for someone who has spent meaningful time working with large, complex organisations and understands the role brand can play in solving corporate and business challenges.

You should be comfortable getting underneath a problem, understanding the business, its ambitions, audiences, competitive context and organisational realities, before determining what the brand needs to do. The work may involve positioning, rebuilding value systems, corporate identity, organization culture, brand architecture, portfolio strategy, transformation or creating greater clarity across a complex organisation.

You will lead significant strategy engagements, work closely with senior clients and partner with our creative and client leadership teams to turn complex business questions into clear, compelling strategic direction.

What Your Bring

10+ years of experience in brand strategy, strategic planning, brand consulting or a closely related discipline, preferably within a brand, strategic, research/insight consultancy or agency environment; relevant senior client-side experience will also be considered
Significant experience working with large corporate organisations and complex businesses, with an understanding of how they operate and how strategic decisions are made and aligned internally
The confidence and credibility to work directly with senior marketing and business leaders, to lead conversations, challenge assumptions and defend a strategic point of view
Experience navigating organisational complexity ie multiple businesses, multiple brands, audiences, stakeholders, markets or competing priorities
Deep understanding of corporate branding and how brand can help address complex business and organisational challenges.
The ability to independently frame complex or ambiguous problems, identify the questions that matter, interrogate research and information, and develop a clear strategic recommendation
Strong presentation and facilitation skills, with the ability to turn complex thinking into clear, compelling and actionable strategic direction, as well as the ability to faciliate workshops where thinking is developed and new perspectives are uncovered
Commercial awareness and an understanding of the relationship between brand, reputation, growth and long-term business value

What You'll Do

Lead major brand strategy engagements end-to-end - diagnosing the business and brand challenge, defining the strategic problem and developing the solution
Draw on research, business information and stakeholder perspectives to uncover insights, challenge assumptions and identify the strategic questions that matter
Translate complex organisational and business issues into clear, actionable strategic frameworks and recommendations and develop a feasible roadmap where needed
Advise senior clients on strategic choices, helping them navigate competing priorities and build alignment and conviction around a direction
Lead workshops and strategic conversations with business leadership teams and other senior stakeholders
Partner closely with our Executive Creative Director, designers and client leadership teams to ensure strategy translates into distinctive and relevant creative work
Play a senior strategic role in new business and pitches, helping define the problem, identify the opportunity and shape the strategic narrative
Mentor and guide strategists, while contributing to Please See//s strategic frameworks, methodologies and point of view