Ogilvy
Strategy Director
Ogilvy, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60290
Ogilvy
Chicago, Illinois
Job Posted Date: 09/11/2024
About Ogilvy
Ogilvy has been creating impact for brands through iconic, culture-changing, value-driving ideas since the company was founded by David Ogilvy 75 years ago. It builds on that rich legacy through Borderless Creativity – innovating at the intersections of its advertising, public relations, relationship design, consulting, and health capabilities with experts collaborating seamlessly across over 120 offices in nearly 90 countries. Ogilvy currently ranks as the #1 global agency network for creative excellence and effectiveness by WARC, signifying its ability to deliver creative solutions that drive unreasonable impact for clients and communities. Ogilvy is a WPP company (NYSE: WPP). For more information, visit Ogilvy.com, and follow us on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and Facebook.
About the RoleAs a Strategy Director you are a leader who opens the aperture of opportunity on the account. You are highly collaborative with account and creative. Through directly managing junior planners &/or mentoring other Ogilvy strategists, you reinforce your own skillset. You aren’t just delegating; you create opportunities for people around you. You have a perspective on brands & consumers, and you speak from knowledge and experience, where your insight into consumer attitudes and behaviors is the source of your authority.
What You’ll Do
Develop brand strategies, write creative briefs, guide development and presentation of the creative work
Bring proactive ideas to clients to push brands into new spaces
Design and implementation of research projects to address client business issues, gain insight into target audiences and testing ad concepts
Manage and direct a team of Senior Strategists, Strategists, Associate Strategists, and interns who are assigned to the Strategy Director’s accounts
Provide professional development opportunities and on-the-job training as needed
What You’ll Need
7+ years of planning/brand strategy experience
Managerial experience
Ability to run day-to-day account work & pitches
Contributes thought leadership and best practices to the department
Comfortable with high-level client exposure; must be able to lead conversations, speak their language, and interview C-Suite executives without a hitch
Strong stage presence
Experience working in the B2B space (understanding of Co-Op Marketing and Co-Branding a plus)
Ability to understand and work within complex businesses, with multiple marketing budgets and stakeholders across various business units within one organization
Ability to balance clients’ long-term branding initiatives with short-term sales goals to develop campaigns that work across time horizons and meet the needs of various stakeholders
Ability to understand complicated solutions (engines, powertrains, IT environments) and discover the meaningful benefits they bring to B2B buyers
How We’ll Support YouOgilvy celebrates its people. Fully. Enthusiastically. Unhesitatingly. We’ll empower you with the tools you’ll need to succeed. We’ll give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. We’ll support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. And we’ll provide opportunities for you to do work of which you’ll be proud, with people you’ll be proud to call your teammates.
#J-18808-Ljbffr
Chicago, Illinois
Job Posted Date: 09/11/2024
About Ogilvy
Ogilvy has been creating impact for brands through iconic, culture-changing, value-driving ideas since the company was founded by David Ogilvy 75 years ago. It builds on that rich legacy through Borderless Creativity – innovating at the intersections of its advertising, public relations, relationship design, consulting, and health capabilities with experts collaborating seamlessly across over 120 offices in nearly 90 countries. Ogilvy currently ranks as the #1 global agency network for creative excellence and effectiveness by WARC, signifying its ability to deliver creative solutions that drive unreasonable impact for clients and communities. Ogilvy is a WPP company (NYSE: WPP). For more information, visit Ogilvy.com, and follow us on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and Facebook.
About the RoleAs a Strategy Director you are a leader who opens the aperture of opportunity on the account. You are highly collaborative with account and creative. Through directly managing junior planners &/or mentoring other Ogilvy strategists, you reinforce your own skillset. You aren’t just delegating; you create opportunities for people around you. You have a perspective on brands & consumers, and you speak from knowledge and experience, where your insight into consumer attitudes and behaviors is the source of your authority.
What You’ll Do
Develop brand strategies, write creative briefs, guide development and presentation of the creative work
Bring proactive ideas to clients to push brands into new spaces
Design and implementation of research projects to address client business issues, gain insight into target audiences and testing ad concepts
Manage and direct a team of Senior Strategists, Strategists, Associate Strategists, and interns who are assigned to the Strategy Director’s accounts
Provide professional development opportunities and on-the-job training as needed
What You’ll Need
7+ years of planning/brand strategy experience
Managerial experience
Ability to run day-to-day account work & pitches
Contributes thought leadership and best practices to the department
Comfortable with high-level client exposure; must be able to lead conversations, speak their language, and interview C-Suite executives without a hitch
Strong stage presence
Experience working in the B2B space (understanding of Co-Op Marketing and Co-Branding a plus)
Ability to understand and work within complex businesses, with multiple marketing budgets and stakeholders across various business units within one organization
Ability to balance clients’ long-term branding initiatives with short-term sales goals to develop campaigns that work across time horizons and meet the needs of various stakeholders
Ability to understand complicated solutions (engines, powertrains, IT environments) and discover the meaningful benefits they bring to B2B buyers
How We’ll Support YouOgilvy celebrates its people. Fully. Enthusiastically. Unhesitatingly. We’ll empower you with the tools you’ll need to succeed. We’ll give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. We’ll support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. And we’ll provide opportunities for you to do work of which you’ll be proud, with people you’ll be proud to call your teammates.
#J-18808-Ljbffr