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Major Players are partnering with a reputable, full service creative agency to recruit for a Strategy/Planning Director for a 12 month contract, to start in February 2026. This is a key hire for the company - you will be an influential member of the leadership team, charged with helping the agency grow and nurture its commercial client roster, working closely with client teams, the Head of Strategy and reporting to the MD, to deliver best-in-class thinking.
Job Responsibility:
Demonstrate a strong ability to distil and translate learnings into deep audience first, data-driven insights and integrated, strategic narratives
Write influential briefs, leading to fresh, disruptive, and impactful work
Be up to date with innovative research techniques and trends to integrate into the planning process
Create strategic content and door opening narratives for bespoke new client approaches, working on pitches and converting wins
Write pitch-winning decks across a broad range of briefs: purpose, brand and product
Influence clients and build lasting relationships
Turn successful work into effectiveness case studies that win awards, based on solid marketing theory and models
Build and maintain lasting and memorable relationships with clients and stakeholders
Develop new relationships as well as organically growing business with existing accounts
Requirements:
At least 8 years of strategy experience, ideally with experience working in an independent agency setting
Broad experience in Brand (Strategy, Design, Campaigns), Product Marketing and Direct response
Proven experience delivering strategy and campaigns across a broad range of projects with stand out, memorable creative - ideally award-winning
Proven experience working on pitches and new business
Team management experience – you will nurture and grow the team with multiple direct reports
Excellent communication skills and strong gravitas and creative flair
Be able to challenge and disrupt the ideation and creative process
A problem solver
A self-starter, entrepreneurial and resourceful
What we offer:
Hybrid working, 3 days per week, Tuesday to Thursday