Senior Director - Strategy

We are a global healthcare communications agency with deep therapeutic expertise that traverses the asset lifecycle, delivering transformative outcomes for healthcare brands for over 20 years.

Our more than 500 highly trained professionals work with speed and agility to craft and execute breakthrough strategies that maximise performance and unlock a brand’s full potential.

This position is aligned to one of our three capabilities:

• Commercial Communications: Accelerating a brand’s trajectory with data-driven strategies and creativity that moves markets.

Our other capabilities include:

• Scientific and Medical Communications: Translating scientific insight into impactful strategies and compelling narratives that inspire change.
• Consulting: Specialised life-sciences consulting — empowering clients to optimise operating models, maximise asset potential and drive sustainable transformation.

We’re looking for a Senior Director, Strategy to help clients solve complex business challenges and make sharper decisions about their brands and marketing.

This role is suited to an experienced strategist who can quickly understand a client’s business, identify the challenges and opportunities that matter most, and translate those insights into clear, commercially relevant strategic direction. You’ll serve as a senior thought partner to clients and internal leadership, helping shape brand strategy, customer engagement, and integrated marketing plans across the brand lifecycle.

• Lead the development of brand and marketing strategies that connect business objectives, customer needs, market dynamics, and commercial opportunities.
• Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders and serve as a strategic partner across key engagements.
• Get close to client businesses and markets to understand challenges, uncover opportunities, and inform strategic direction.
• Develop positioning, messaging, customer insights, engagement strategies, and integrated plans that support brand growth.
• Bring clarity and structure to complex or ambiguous business challenges, turning them into focused and actionable recommendations.
• Guide strategic thinking across multidisciplinary teams and ensure strategy is translated effectively into execution.
• Partner with Account, Creative, Medical, Media, and Project Management colleagues to deliver cohesive, high‑quality work.
• Use research, customer insight, competitive intelligence, and commercial understanding to strengthen strategic recommendations.
• Lead workshops, planning sessions, and client presentations that create alignment and drive progress.
• Contribute to new business development, including pitch strategy, strategic narratives, client presentations, and workshops.
• Identify opportunities to deepen client relationships and expand the impact of strategic work.
• Mentor and support developing strategists while contributing to a collaborative and high‑performing team culture.
• Stay close to emerging customer, market, and industry trends and bring fresh thinking to client challenges.

• 10+ years of experience in brand strategy, strategic planning, account leadership, consulting, marketing, or a related discipline.
• Experience working in an agency, consultancy, client-side marketing organization, or similarly strategic environment.
• Strong experience developing brand strategy, positioning, messaging, customer insights, and integrated marketing plans.
• Demonstrated ability to understand a business, identify meaningful problems and opportunities, and shape a clear strategic response.
• Experience advising and influencing senior stakeholders through strong thinking, communication, and relationship‑building.
• Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to…