Strategy Director

Agency:
Future Brand Job Function:
Strategy and Planning Job Subfunction:
Strategy

Job Description:

FUTUREBRAND Strategy Director

Role Purpose You are a key component in delivering brand strategies for our clients. You are able to effectively use your knowledge and expertise on a multitude of projects, bring the team along with you; managing upwards and downwards whilst challenging the way we do things to ensure we produce our best strategy work. You are the bridge between our strategy, the client, our team and the agency.

You will work closely with the creative and client servicing team, known as Business Leadership on any project, taking responsibility for delivering our work brilliantly. You will also need to open to working with our lovely clients with regular travel.

Future Brand We’re Future Brand - 27 years young with a head full of big brand experience and a gaze fixed firmly on the future, our work over the last two decades has changed the brand landscape today. What we do next will change tomorrow. We’re based in some of the most exciting and vibrant cities on the planet, balancing global scale with cultural connection.

That means we’re on the doorstep of many of the world’s biggest brands, and within reach of the very best talent around. Together, we are a diverse brand, experience and design community who believe that brand is how a company’s people, products and services behave wherever and whenever they show up in the world. Our work focuses on measuring and maximizing brand behaviour by connecting corporate purpose with everyday lived experience.

It's through this work that we deliver our purpose:
To transform the future of businesses by changing how their brands behave today. And because we believe strongly that the future our brands create must be a future for us all, our shared values
- Progressive, Adaptable, Collaborative and Empowering - put difference and diversity at our core.

Future Brand London Future Brand London’s studio at 135 Bishopsgate by Liverpool St station. We’ve got everything from cycle racks and showers to our own bar and rooftop terrace. Our in-house Culture Club ensure there’s always something going on to inspire, enlighten and connect us, and being next-door to Eataly and a mere salivatory glance from Spitalfields market means lunchtimes are never dull.

There’s around 60 of us here working across some of the worlds most coveted brands. To stay ahead of the game, we’re pretty keen on fostering collective cultural curiosity around the things shaping the corporate, consumer and brand landscape today and tomorrow (we call it Future Focus). So whether the focus is on disruptive technologies, geopolitical developments or societal cultural trends, you can expect events, guest speakers and workshops in the studio on a regular basis – with drinks and snacks of course.

Future Brand London’s had another great year and continues to go from strength to strength.

• Able to confidently shape the narrative across multiple complex projects, and persuasively sell in future brand strategies to clients and their agency partners
• Lead a full breadth of strategy projects (i.e. positioning, architecture, naming, design, activation) across multiple industries
• Accurately and actively define and scope projects
• Foster strong relationships; become a trusted strategic advisor internally and externally with colleagues and clients
• Anchor the delivery of the strategy across all points of connected experience, and identify new opportunities for delivery of the strategy in partnership with Strategy Directors
• Work with the team and across teams to help shape efforts towards achieving client, agency and project goals, pursuing effective working strategies as you go
• Ensure…