Strategy Director

Overview

Title: Strategy Director

Company/Location: Harrison/Star / New York

Department/Discipline: Strategy

You know you’re a Strategy Director when it clicks within your brain that there is no prescribed path forward, only the path you prescribe. It’s the ability to make sense out of nonsense, the ability to see an answer when the solution has never been done before, the ability to create when the sheet in front of you is blank, the ability to curate across the environment to bring forward the right tool or technique as the solve. These are the signs that you’ve tipped into knowing, not hoping, that your answer is the best within your ability.

Summary:

The Strategy department at Harrison/Star is seeking an insightful, creative thinker to spark and guide forward strategies for key businesses and accounts within the agency. If you have experience managing a portfolio of business, understand the creative brief process, and have developed marketing communications that have had a demonstrated impact, you could be the strategic “catalyst” that we need. From searching for current gaps in research, to identifying pockets of opportunity, and forming inspiring creative briefs, this role will act as “the catalyst”, strategically inciting future actions and projects that will bring significant value to our company, clients and creative products.

Primary Job Responsibilities

• Examine research to identify gaps in learning and deduce the implications for our clients and the brand.
• Generate fresh, inventive insights and formulate pitchy creative briefs to direct thinking and actions.
• Initiate strategic recommendations for future actions that target identified pockets of opportunities (i.e. what information about our brand is missing from the physician perspective, and what steps should be taken to fill the gap?).
• Shepherd and nurture marketing, creative, and communications.
• Drive interpretation and implications of research into presentations.
• Collaborate with Copy/Art departments in creative development process to ensure product has more impact by providing feedback to identify where the current approach may be falling off strategy, and the best future avenues to explore.
• Contribute and participate in new business pitches as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably within the field of sociology, anthropology, advertising, marketing or other related field.
• 4 years work experience in a Strategy department/company specializing in strategic insight generation. Past experience in pharmaceutical or advertising industry a plus.
• The ability to provide past case studies, pitched business, creative briefs and writing samples that demonstrate creative and insightful thinking.
• Excellent verbal and written communication with the capability to construct and support arguments
• Experience managing challenging strategic issues (i.e. relaunching a dying brand).
• Well versed in sophisticated research methods (i.e. segmentation, copy testing, & message testing).
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment with many competing priorities.
• Team player with a professional, outgoing, and assertive attitude. 

The range below represents the low and high end of the base salary someone in this role may earn as an employee of an Omnicom Health Group company in the United States. Salaries will vary based on various factors including but not limited to professional and academic experience, training, associated responsibilities, and other business and organizational needs. The range listed is just one component of our total compensation package for employees. Salary decisions are dependent on the circumstances of each hire. 

$120,000 - $144,000

Omnicom Health Group is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is equally distributed, and we’re focused on developing diverse teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us—we look forward to getting to know you. 

Salary : $120,000 - $144,000