Jack Morton Worldwide

Strategy Director

Jack Morton Worldwide$145K — $175K *
Business Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in strategic roles within creative agencies or management consulting environments.
  • Experience in business, brand, and environmental strategy for global C-level B2B and B2C brands.
  • Strong presentation skills suitable for boardroom engagement.
  • Expertise in developing insights and identifying cultural trends across various channels.
  • Ability to analyze and synthesize information into strategic insights.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Demonstrated accountability for results and focus on client success.
  • Passion or experience in women's sports is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Drive revenue growth by enhancing integrated communication strategies and delivery platforms.
  • Proactively develop and present innovative ideas to clients and internal teams.
  • Lead strategy development and oversee the 'Ideas Lead' in pitches and ongoing projects.
  • Monitor industry trends and apply expertise to stimulate fresh ideas for clients.
  • Lead both quantitative and qualitative strategic design to foster brand growth.
  • Transform data and insights into engaging brand stories and communications strategies.
  • Develop creative briefs that articulate insights and influence client thinking.
  • Build strong relationships with clients, influencing them and securing internal buy-in.

Benefits

  • Flexible hybrid work arrangement preferred for NYC/Boston/Dayton NJ, open to US remote.
  • Opportunity to work with top-tier clients and contribute to high-impact projects.
  • Collaborative environment with exposure to cross-disciplinary teams.
  • Potential to participate in industry events and elevate personal visibility.
  • Focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion within the workplace.
Full Job Description
**ability to work in NYC/Boston/Dayton NJ hybrid preferred; open to US remote**

Jack Morton Worldwide is looking for a Strategy Director (experiential/events). You will serve as a key partner to the Account Director and other principal leads, focusing on the leadership, growth, and delivery of key B2C accounts, with a particular focus on vision, strategy, and innovation.

Acting as a senior business advisor to clients, you will drive the strategic planning process to deliver on clients' efforts to launch, align, engage and build their brand, and may be directly responsible for the Ideas component -as we say, the "Ideas Lead"- of the work.

You will be expected to push the envelope to inspire the development of new and big ideas, and manage an integrated team of strategists, creative directors, and producers at certain stages of the process.

The Strategy Director is accountable for strategy as well as the integrity and fitness of ideas, from start to execution, on all retained and project work for the client.

What you'll be doing:

Help Drive Revenue
  • Provide sought-after expertise in integrated comms strategies, as well as generally across one or more of our delivery platforms: launch, align, engage and build (with understanding and competence in all)
  • Build brands and business for the account by proactively bringing new ideas forward to the client and to JM teams
  • Owns strategy development and often has responsibility for the Ideas component, throughout pitches or on ongoing work, to deliver compelling strategic stories that will sell internally and be successful externally

Extract Fresh Insights
  • Monitors and understands key trends and leading practices, and combines with own expertise to innovate, adapt, and push new ideas for the client.
  • Lead strategic design from both quantitative and qualitative approaches to drive a creative foundation, big ideas and brand growth
  • Turn data and information into original brand stories and comms strategies that excite clients and deliver brand results
  • Identify new sources of information that provide teams with trends, market analysis and relevant points of view that will enhance our ability to meet client needs

Communicate Ideas
  • Lead the development of a creative brief, articulating key insights and a clear point of view
  • Command a presence with senior clients, successfully influencing them to think big, helping them sell strategic and creative work internally,
  • Create white papers and participate in speaking engagements to elevate Jack Morton's visibility in the marketplace

Build Effective Relationships
  • Collaborate with creative and account teams to ensure effective connections through all agency disciplines relative to client work
  • Serve as a trusted advisor at senior levels internally and externally
  • Participate in the hiring of new team members to build the strategy teams capabilities

What we're looking for:
  • 8+ years in a strategic role in a creative agency or management consulting environment
  • Experience with business, brand, and experience/environmental strategy, as well as with strategy and delivery of global C-level B2B and B2C brand experiences
  • Boardroom-ready presentation presence and skills
  • 8+ years strategic experience developing insights, identifying cultural trends, and inspiring big ideas that travel across channels
  • Ability to collect, read, analyze, interpret & synthesis information from a variety of sources and develop strategic insights and points of view
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Demonstration of key competencies: accountability for results, client focus, team effectiveness, developing others, creative thinking
  • Passion or experience in women's sports a plus

Last but not least, we believe in diversity, equity and inclusion.

About Jack Morton Worldwide

Jack Morton Worldwide is a global brand experience agency. We believe brands need extraordinary ideas that create emotional connections, fuel conversations and deliver business results. For more than 75 years, we have brought brands to life through event marketing, promotional marketing, sponsorship marketing, digital, social and mobile, content marketing and employee engagement. Jack Morton is part of the Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. (NYSE: IPG), one of the world's largest advertising and marketing services organizations. With more than 800 employees in offices around the world, we deliver exceptional results for our clients in 70 countries.
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