Director, Brand Strategy
Description
Objectives of This Role:
- Leverage a deep understanding of brand marketing to collaborate on the successful building of effective, innovative brand strategies across multiple channels
- Initiate brand strategy discussions and subsequent market research initiatives to identify market needs and create and exploit brand opportunities
- A strong passion for people and the desire to uncover key customer/market insights as the basis for strategies and communication, which change perceptions and influence behavior to create a competitive advantage
- The ability (and desire) to think big across a wide range of strategic opportunities, from launch planning to the evolution of long-standing platforms
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary team members in the development and presentation of integrated, innovative, strategic marketing solutions
- Create dynamic and compelling presentations that deliver new thinking, bring audiences along for your ride, and create “yes, and” moments
- Ability to produce clear and concise written documents (proposals, strategic rationales, point-of-view statements, case studies, discussion guides, etc)
- Follow trends and innovations to impact integrated communication strategies (eg, media, digital, research, etc) in relation to category, customer, competitor, and brand health dynamics
- Partner with other strategic disciplines on projects or assignments as appropriate
- Take on increasing levels of responsibility as it relates to business development
- Collaborate with clients/team in research design and stimuli development, participate in ongoing research, and provide strategic point of view via reporting
- Lead/direct secondary research/audits to gather insights and inform strategy in relation to category, customer, competitor, and brand health dynamics
- Responsible for managing and developing team members
- Lead annual brand planning efforts for assigned client(s)—proactively work to expand agency role, presence, and contribution as key partner
- Lead development/presentation of strategy deliverables, including brand platform, positioning, manifestos, and team briefings
- Identify opportunities to expand the strategic remit and develop/sell in additional strategy deliverables and workshops
- Act as brand steward, representing the customer and brand’s voice in all engagements
- Lead team ideation sessions and lead the development, moderation, and reporting of strategy workshops
- Lead pitch activities, including presentation and team collaboration
- Entrepreneurial “can do” attitude and a relentless passion for collaboration and innovation
- Demonstrated expertise for uncovering insights and leveraging them to achieve marketing objectives
- The ability to translate clients’ goals and objectives into actionable and measurable marketing recommendations
- Knowledge of marketing/advertising mix (interactive, sales support, traditional, broadcast, experiential, events, etc)
- Bachelor’s degree required. Graduate degree preferred in behavioral sciences, business marketing, and/or advertising
- Must have 7+ years of brand strategy experience, delivering custom marketing solutions within a digital marketing, consulting, and/or advertising agency environment
- Experience in the pharmaceutical and/or medical/healthcare industry is a plus
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