Strategy Director
Description
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VML HEALTH’s Global Strategy Team (GST) launched in 2020 and is now an established, thriving practice. Home to a diverse team of strategic thinkers, it represents the highest levels of strategic competency and is the fastest growing practice in our network. The GST is an incubator for new capabilities, creator of strategic best practices and a think tank for solving some of the world’s biggest health challenges. More than anything, we are a close, supportive, and entrepreneurial team that flourish on collaborating and growing together.Â
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About the position
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Title:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Global Strategy Director
Reports to: Â Â Â Â Global SVP Brand Strategy
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Position Summary:
In this role you will partner with our brand teams as we develop compelling strategies for our clients’ business that unleash the potential of their brands.
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Experience:
·       Extensive experience in strategic planning within a healthcare advertising or creative agency
- Extensive data and insight mining: qualitative and quantitative research, primary and secondary
- Strong experience in leading global strategy projects (global pitches, global brand positioning, global brand planning, etc)
- Excellent creative brief writing skills and development of clear insight stories and propositions
- Extensive experience briefing and collaborating creative teams
- Develop competitive analysis and audits, market and brand landscape reviews
- Proven reporting on important cultural/technology/health trends, and their potential application to and impact on client business
- Repeated experience of developing brand strategies across the product life cycle
- Strong pitch experience
- Research and development of customer experience mapping
- Regular workshop development and delivery excellence
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Responsibilities:
·       Build persuasive and inspiring stories to present strategy and achieve successful outcomes
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·       Provide direction and guidance to junior strategists to identify data sources & analytical frameworks and formulate a POV
·       Mentor and support junior strategists on their path to growth
·       Ensure effective collaboration across teams by setting a positive tone, assigning roles as needed and ensuring accountability.
·       Lead client work with supervision from strategic leadership
·       Create and maintain authentic relationships with senior clients
·       work product
·       Challenge the team to continually seek innovative solutions and growth opportunities
·       Own the integration of innovative tools, methodologies and resources into strategic processes and documents
·       Demonstrate leadership in pursing growth opportunities and incorporating into daily work
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Requirements:
- Clear communicator, good listener, agile thinker
- Curious and analytical
- Has an understanding of what is required to successfully achieve work objectives
- Able to be an individual contributor, willing and eager to work in a hands-on, proactive capacity
- Strong persuasive communication skills to advocate for strategy both internally and externally
- Collaborative and driven
- Entrepreneurial spirit
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Qualifications:
Education: Bachelor’s degree, preferably in public health, science, marketing, sociology, psychology or communications or comparable degrees
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Experience:
Minimum 10 years in strategic planning in healthcare
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