Wppmedia
Associate Director, Strategy, MENA
Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Posted 24 days ago
The role
You will be part of a squad in the Growth team, leading strategy for pitches, prospecting and growth work across multiple markets. You will write strategies, plan connections and present to clients, working with the Head of Growth and senior strategy leaders.
What you will do
- Support strategic workstreams for multi-market pitches and global prospecting, and local pitches where required.
- Lead medium and small local pitches, from strategy writing to connection planning to presenting.
- Develop and present strategies in pitches, prospecting and internal meetings.
- Apply the planning approaches of Mindshare, Wavemaker and EssenceMediacom to strategic thinking.
- Bring inputs from multiple disciplines into a clear strategic story.
- Work with the Insights team to add category, company, consumer and cultural insights to recommendations.
- Support the Head of Growth across pitches and growth initiatives.
- Build relationships across WPP practices to strengthen strategies.
- Share strong work, learnings and best practice across the strategy team and markets.
- Contribute to the evolution of the growth approach and share thought leadership and trends with the squad.
Required qualifications
- Strong experience in strategy, growth, new business or client-facing strategic roles, ideally in media, marketing or agency environments.
- Proven ability to develop and present compelling strategic thinking in pitches and prospecting, with strong storytelling and presentation skills.
- Ability to translate business and marketing challenges into clear, differentiated strategic opportunities.
- Strong collaboration and stakeholder management across disciplines, markets and seniority levels.
- Proactive, commercially minded and adaptable, able to lead strategic workstreams independently.
About the company
WPP Media is WPP's AI-driven media operating unit, bringing together media, data and partnerships to deliver creative personalisation at scale. It works through the WPP Open platform.