Agency:
Initiative

Job Function:
Strategy and Planning

Job Subfunction:
Strategy

Job Description:
Position Summary
As a Strategy Director, you are responsible for the creation of the strategic direction a brand will take in communications to achieve their business goals. You are responsible for helping to strategize, produce and make sense of the key cultural, consumer and market intelligence required to design the best possible holistic communications plan to deliver on that task. This work should be held up as best practice both within the agency and externally - recognized by winning awards and client scores.
You are responsible for creating the strategic recommendations and engaging with the client in an advisory capacity. You will report to the Client Lead to deliver brilliant strategic thinking for the client team. Creative thinking, sound presentation skills & leadership behaviors are critical in delivering success in this role. Your work drives re-appraisal of communications and what media can do in the world, and your work will be seen as driving the agency forward.

Responsibilities
Maintaining excellent client relationships & understanding of the clients' key business and challenges
Being considered a valuable contributor during client meetings with the ability to challenge others' opinions in the right forum/manner
Delivering innovative thinking that inspires leading edge solutions and award-winning breakthrough work - best in class work as standard (internally & externally)
Arming the client team with knowledge & expertise to speak confidently about the strategic direction where required
Measurable client & strategy business KPIs
Identify, develop & oversee the delivery of unique and innovative strategies to deliver the client's desired results
Clearly demonstrate how the strategy delivers on the business need and focus on results and measurement
Responsible for leading Infinity Planning for the team and client base
Write cohesive communications architectures that deliver on the platform and give guidance for how the brand will play in culture
Train, guide & assist the Strategy & Client teams in development and packaging of ideas
Positively collaborate with SBU and independent creative partners, contributing to their/our client work
Use qualitative and quantitative communications channel & cultural tool research to develop applicable insights into the consumer connection with the brand
Partner with Analytics to develop new tools, inputting into the development of new & cutting edge proprietary planning, research and reporting models for Initiative

Required Skills & Experience
8+ years in integrated planning role in media, creative, innovation or communications discipline (digital, content, invention, social, activation)
Ability to think differently: creative & adaptive, entrepreneurial, independently minded; deeply immersed in cultural understanding and driven by a desire to know more the world / to better understand people's motivations & behaviors in the shifting landscape

Wage and Benefits
We offer a Total Rewards package that includes medical and dental coverage, 401(k) plans, flex spending, life insurance, disability, employee discount program, employee stock purchase program and paid family benefits to support you and your family.

The salary range for this position is posted below. Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position, market considerations, budgetary considerations, tenure and standing with the Company (applicable to current employees), as well as the employee's/applicant's skill set, level of experience, and qualifications.

$130,000.00 - $150,000.00

Omnicom's policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom's corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.