Strategy Director at Box and Cedar

Key Responsibilities

• Develop role as strategic client partner and advisor across ongoing brand initiatives
• Create and direct innovative and thoughtful strategic solutions to complex brand and communications challenges on behalf of our portfolio of clients
• Consult with clients on a range of strategic brand initiatives, including brand positioning, brand architecture, brand analytics, internal brand engagement and digital brand strategy
• Build upon a deepening knowledge of business, brand and clients to deliver strategies that continually evolve client brands
• Collaborate with clients and internal teams and partners to build and execute on strategic recommendations that will ultimately be brought to market across multiple channels
• Collaborate with creative teams to shape creative expression and execution
• Collaborate with project management to ensure that initiatives have appropriate resources for development, and are ultimately delivered on time and on budget
• Inspire and mentor junior strategy team members
• Any other duties that may be assigned

New Business Development

• Engage in broad-based branding discussions with clients to become trusted counselor, and in so doing identify further opportunities for mutually beneficial growth of the company and client relationship
• Follow up and manage the new business process on select leads generated by the firm’s marketing efforts, including conducting research and contributing strategy to presentations and proposals

KPIs

• Successful new business pitches
• Growing existing clients’ portfolio
• Development of key Client relationships reflected in Client bi-annual feedback to Agency

Required Skills and Experience

• 7+ years of relevant work experience
• Strategic, Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Good communicator
• Demonstrable ability to multi-task and adhere to deadlines
• Well-organized with a customer-oriented approach