Creative Strategy Director

Role: Creative Strategy Director

Community: Strategy

Type: Full-time, permanent (FTC could be considered)

Location: London

Set up: Hybrid working, in the studio 3 days per week, 2 days remote per week

Application deadline: 2nd February 2025

Before you apply: Check out these questions that may help you put together your application.

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Your community:

We’ve always been ambitious for the work and optimistic for the world, pushing what’s possible, exploring new ways of doing things and using our creativity to make a difference.  Our strategy community makes sense of the complex and ambiguous nature of our work and provides our clients with the creativity, clarity and cut through needed to move the business forward.

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Your role:

Our Strategy Directors play a crucial role in leading and delivering large workstreams across 2 or 3 of our most significant accounts.

We expect you to break new ground in all aspects of branding through unconventional thinking and creativity. You’ll be a change-maker, inspiring others to think and behave differently, stretching them to do their best and go beyond.

You will continue to build on your reputation, becoming a first choice for client referrals and recommendations. You will be keen to play an active role in our strategy community by looking to share new tools, methodologies and ways of working.

We expect our Strategy Directors to direct the project/team by cutting through complexity, identifying opportunities for growth and helping others seize them. You understand what good looks like and push the work to uphold and improve our standards. You play a pivotal role in advocating for our clients, our business, our teams and our people.

You are responsible for:

• Ensuring our work meets client needs, works in situ and builds WO reputation.
• Being familiar with working with all of WO tools and introducing your own tools to WO.
• Being creative and innovative in developing original solutions to your clients’ challenges.
• Leading the strategic thinking and your teams, knowing how to get the best out of them, how to get the various resources working well together, and how to create opportunities for all team members to stretch their skills.
• Taking an active role in new business, creating inspirational pitches that break the mold and takes us into new areas and challenges.
• Being aware of the financial targets and needs of our business, playing an active role in ensuring that budgets for your jobs are used carefully and effectively.
• Pushing the ambition and quality of the work on your projects, ensuring they meet Wolff Olins’ exacting standards and makes us proud.
• Playing an active role in the Strategy and wider Wolff Olins community by contributing enthusiastically to our communities with new tools/methodologies and helping internal initiatives to take off.

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Our focus on people and the world:

Wolff Olins believes in creating an environment where people can bring their whole selves to work. We are interested in our people having diverse points of view and different perspectives on the world. We set out to equip our people with the knowledge, confidence and tools to do the best work of their lives. Our purpose is to help our people create transformative brands that push businesses, people and the world forward.

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Requirements

You should:

• Have extensive experience in brand and brand strategy (deep expertise in enterprise-level brand purpose/positioning/proposition/values/architecture/naming is required).
• Speak the language of culture/employee engagement, customer experience, innovation and/or insights and analytics - you’re able to consult with clients on a range of brand and marketing issues.
• Most likely have a rich experience of roles, deep sector experience.
• Have previously led a variety of multi-disciplinary teams and brand strategy projects for other mid to large size companies.
• Have previous experience in helping your clients to change mid to large scale, established organizations and/or up-scale fast growth, tech-led businesses.

Benefits

• Hybrid working setup (min in the studio 3 days a week)
• Flexibility on when you want to work - aiming to work 7.5 hours a day
• Laptop for the duration of your role (Mac or Windows)
• Company phone (Apple or Samsung)
• Annual expense allowance on tech equipment and home office set up
• Breakfast, snacks and fruit served daily in the studio + lunches served every Tuesday and Thursday
• Access to company tech i.e. 3D printer, hi-spec cameras
• & much more...!

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