Senior Vice President, Strategy

Starcom Mediavest Group Germany Gmbh

$180K — $299K *
Business Services
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • B.A. or B.S. in Marketing, Advertising, or related field preferred
  • 12+ years of strategy experience across brand, digital, and media
  • Proven track record leading integrated strategies for large clients
  • Strong collaborative leadership skills
  • Ability to inspire teams around significant business goals

Responsibilities

  • Provide integrated strategic leadership across multi-agency teams
  • Set strategic direction for Wellness brands to drive long-term growth
  • Translate consumer insights into actionable strategic narratives
  • Create consumer-first strategies that enhance brand engagement
  • Drive innovation through new methodologies and tools, like AI and personalization
  • Lead cross-functional planning and execution for efficiency
  • Act as a trusted advisor on industry shifts to solve client challenges

Benefits

  • Medical coverage
  • Dental and vision insurance
  • Disability benefits
  • 401(k) plan with eligibility criteria for participants
  • Paid time off
Full Job Description
We are looking for an exceptionally talented Senior Vice President, Strategy to oversee all Media Planning and Strategy and E2E Integration for a high-profile Power of One team. This person will lead a team in the development, execution, and stewardship of integrated media plans for the client's business. This SVP will leverage their experience, perspective, and leadership skills to bring fresh thinking while thoughtfully balancing client priorities, agency objectives, and team needs. The SVP, Strategy will also serve as a visionary leader and trusted advisor, driving integrated strategic excellence across the portfolio of wellness brands. This role is responsible for setting the overall strategic direction across brand, communications, digital, media, and performance strategy, ensuring a seamless, consumer-first approach to champion growth, breakthrough thinking, and cross-collaboration that span across different wellness categories. Responsibilities Role Objectives: Provide integrated strategic leadership across a multi-agency team spanning brand, communications, digital, media, and performance strategy. • Set the strategic direction for assigned Wellness brands, ensuring plans advance the client's business and connect to long-range growth priorities • Translate consumer truths, cultural context, and business needs into compelling strategic narratives and actionable frameworks • Create consumer-first, connected strategies that move from brand awareness to shoppable engagement moments across channels • Partner with Data & Analytics on audience segmentation, journey mapping, channel strategy, and measurement frameworks • Drive innovation in strategy and planning through new tools and methodologies, including AI, experience planning, and personalization • Lead cross-functional planning and campaign development to ensure strong integration, resource efficiency, and effective execution • Serve as the senior strategic lead for the Wellness portfolio, ensuring connectivity across internal teams, external partners, and client stakeholders • Oversee Wellness Pod operations, including staffing recommendations, day-to-day supervision, budgeting, cost management, and resourcing needs Builds Trust as a Client Advisor to drive Growth • Act as an advisor on Industry shifts for the client, helping to solve business challenges through strategic thinking • Deliver business growth through strategic innovation, thought leadership, and white-space opportunities Collaborates across Capabilities to drive Breakthrough • Bridge strategy with creative, media, digital, social, and analytics teams to ensure alignment from insight to execution • Champion the integration of research, cultural insights, and behavioral data into all aspects of planning • Collaborate with creative leadership to ensure insights fuel breakthrough ideas that work across platforms • Partner with media/data leads to connect brand storytelling with performance outcomes Team Leadership & Development to upskill talent • Build and lead a multi-disciplinary strategy team (brand, comms, media, digital, CX, data strategy). • Foster a collaborative, inclusive culture rooted in curiosity, clarity, and commercial impact. • Champion professional growth, training, and mentorship within the strategy department. Qualifications • B.A. or B.S., preferably in Marketing, Advertising, or related field • 12+ years in strategy, with deep experience across brand, digital, and media • Proven ability to lead integrated strategies across large, complex clients • Excellent collaborative leadership ability to drive team to deliver results • Inspirational leader who can rally teams around big ideas and business goals. Compensation Range: USD $180,215.00 - USD $299,637.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. This role may also be eligible for bonus or incentive compensation. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 10/5/2026.

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