What are the responsibilities and job description for the Executive Director - Head of Strategy position at Cheil Dallas?
About Us
Cheil Worldwide is the 11th-largest creative agency in the world. Headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, we were founded by Samsung in 1973 to grow its local and global business. While Samsung is still one of our main clients, our roster has evolved to include other globally recognized brands such as Adidas, Coca-Cola, ESPN, Lego, Nivea, PayPal, Starbucks and many more.
Cheil Dallas serves as the lead agency for all Samsung projects in North America and is located steps from their office at Legacy Central in Plano, Texas. It's the home base for more than 200 creative problem-solvers who share a passion for developing groundbreaking ideas rooted in data, driven by insights and enabled by innovative technology.
And that brings us to you... or rather you to us. Pushing boundaries beyond traditional advertising requires a curious mind undeterred by the never-been-done. We need a thinker and doer who's eager to explore new ways to connect with consumers beyond offering a product. If blending analytics with intuition and imagination makes your eyes sparkle, read on!
About the Role
The head of this team will build and lead a talented a group that provides strategic leadership for all work delivered by Cheil Dallas. You'll be working together with Creative, Account, PMO, Production and Tech as partners to deliver strategy rooted in powerful storytelling, formulated frameworks that place logic above all else, while taking on the uber-modern twist of incorporating measurement, data, insights and optimizations as part of your epic plan. You'll be working alongside the brains of the operation, from omnichannel strategists, campaign strategists, data activators and insights extractors to performance-based media experts.
So if you're into data and its power of influence in modern-age strategy and can convert that into tangible and actionable plans, you're in the right place and, yes, at the perfect time.
About You
Who you are is just as important as (if not more important than!) what you can do.
- You're a confident, trusted strategic planner who can create and deliver compelling stories to senior clients.
- You bring wisdom and weight to any strategic discussion, tossing back and forth ideas with industry and trend expertise that sparks dialogue and conversations. You're not afraid of different views in a debate.
- You know how to get fluff out of the air and transform it into tangible matter, to translate it into actionable and simple-to-understand logic, with high-caliber framework creations with insights rooted in research that lead the creative team to smart concepts.
- You're a smart communicator and problem-solver, with a successful track record of steering high-profile strategies that span across brand, omni-channel and data-driven performance marketing.
- Proactive at heart, you're a self-starter who seeks out ways to bring to life opportunities to elaborate, improve and inform internal and client briefs.
- You enjoy initiating powerful ideas and collaborating with subject-matter experts.
- You're passionate about learning new trends, new skill sets, and nearly everything about people and human behavior.
- You prefer a fast-paced agency environment, working across a variety of capabilities including creative, media, digital experiences, social, retail, experiential and beyond.
- You thrive on data and have a deep understanding of performance-marketing initiatives and sales-driving tactics.
- You can create mind-boggling presentation decks / plans that spark thoughts, dialogue and a lot of nodding of the heads.
- You're always compassionate, curious, and friendly but never afraid to challenge the status quo
- You're an experienced people leader with the ability to build, teach and grow the strategy team
- You carry the Cheil DNA : You can be both a leader and a doer who doesn't wait around - you're always willing to roll up your sleeves and get in on the action.
Your Responsibilities
Like you, this job is multidimensional. And every aspect is crucial to creating culturally relevant work.
Day-to-day responsibilities - you'll :
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