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Strategic Director

2 months ago


Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa OLIVER Agency Full time
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At OLIVER Agency, we're seeking a highly skilled Strategic Director to join our team. As a key member of our leadership team, you will be responsible for driving the impact of our business, leading the charge for us to become a more influential partner to CMOs and CEOs through the quality of our ideas and our creative work.

The Strategic Director will take ownership in developing and leading our strategic practice, building brand platforms for our clients with the collective ambition to make real brand and behavioral changes not just through advertising campaigns.

You will work closely with senior creative leadership in a highly collaborative and team-oriented environment, with the aim of winning new business as well as managing the strategic development for some of the most recognized brands in the world.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop and maintain relationships with existing and potential clients, creating strategic solutions and plans that best fit the agency and clients' needs.
  • Create brand identities through research and applying experience to uncover an in-depth knowledge of the organizational process, competitive threats, and opportunities of a client's business.
  • Manage the campaign measurement process to ensure that clients and agency are aligned on key performance metrics, establishing realistic business goals, and providing accountability through reporting and analytics.
  • Ensure that the agency provides a strategic anchor for our multidisciplinary team, understanding business context, uncovering insights, and exploring growth opportunities.
  • Deliver a consistently superior creative product and work that is strategic and above all creative.
  • Partner with the Creative Director in providing inspiration for the Creative Department.
  • Lead the charge to create and champion our own original strategic ideas.
  • Manage and mentor other strategists and rising strategy talent.
  • Act as a brand architect to craft inspiring briefs and actionable roadmaps to lead agency and clients to creative business solutions.
  • Develop fresh insights to understand the brand, category, culture, and audience.
  • Manage the Strategy group and plan, assign, direct, and prioritize strategy work.

Requirements:

  • Relevant qualification.
  • Minimum of ten years experience in TTL strategy in integrated, brand, and digital communications.
  • Ability to identify strategic needs, lead all aspects of planning, and generate alignment with key business partners.
  • A talent for telling great stories—verbally and visually.
  • Demonstrate strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
  • Excellent presentation skills that encompass clear, compelling communications.
  • Track record of experience managing and mentoring with high integrity.
  • Ability to manage multiple business initiatives in an entrepreneurial environment.
  • Expert knowledge of all functional agency departments, capabilities, and service areas.
  • Deep understanding of a wide range of industries, markets, and brands.
  • Self-motivated and willing to expand knowledge.

Our values shape everything we do:

Be Ambitious to succeed.

Be Imaginative to push the boundaries of what's possible.

Be Inspirational to do groundbreaking work.

Be always learning and listening to understand.

Be Results-focused to exceed expectations.

Be actively pro-inclusive and anti-racist across our community, clients, and creations.

OLIVER Agency is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected.

OLIVER Agency has set ambitious environmental goals around sustainability, with science-based emissions reduction targets.

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