Strategy Director

The role

The Strategy Director will lead high-impact strategic thinking and influence senior client decisions. This role involves working on key global accounts and providing strategic leadership across multidisciplinary teams.

What you will do

• Lead high-impact strategic thinking and influence senior client decisions
• Take a strategic role on key global accounts
• Build trusted, long-term client relationships
• Provide strategic leadership across multidisciplinary teams
• Own strategic deliverables from hypothesis to recommendation
• Translate qualitative and quantitative research into recommendations
• Formulate hypotheses and design primary and secondary research
• Assess brand performance, competitive landscapes and cultural shifts
• Establish efficient workflows for strategic delivery
• Apply AI tools and modern research techniques

Required qualifications

• Significant experience in strategy
• Proven track record of leading high-impact brand and business challenges
• Strong analytical capability
• Exceptional narrative and presentation skills
• Experience working across major global brand portfolios or complex, multi-market accounts
• Ability to manage multiple projects and tight deadlines
• Confidence and gravitas when guiding senior clients and influencing stakeholders
• Commercially minded approach with experience in pitches, account growth, targets and budgets
• Passion for culture, design, innovation and emerging marketing trends
• Curiosity about AI, new technologies and modern methodologies

About the company

CBA is a global design agency with 15 offices around the world. It is a WPP company that creates positive brands and businesses through design.