Strategy Group Director
Strategy Group Director
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Strategy Group Director
At Wavemaker we believe there always is a better way to grow. By Positively Provoking Growth for our clients our people and our partners we shape decisions and experiences through media content and technology. We are part of GroupM and WPP; the largest media buying alliance and marketing communications group ranked #1 in the world. In Australia and New Zealand we have over 250 people working across six offices: Adelaide Brisbane Melbourne Sydney Perth and Auckland.
Winner of Agency of the Year 2023 Wavemaker empowers our people to bring 100 of themselves 100 of the time. Our culture of Positive Provocation unites us and makes us stronger as individuals and collectively. We push boundaries through positive provocation and delivering impactful results for our clients.
The Team
The Strategy/Planning Department is responsible for conceptualising and designing solutions for client needs across mediums. Activities include collaborating with creative partners to oversee ; liaising with account management to ensure client specifications are met. This job family group uses planning tools and research for intelligence trends and priorities for planning purposes.
The Strategy/Planning Department is responsible for conceptualising and designing solutions for client needs across mediums. Activities include collaborating with creative partners to oversee ; liaising with account management to ensure client specifications are met. This job family group uses planning tools and research for intelligence trends and priorities for planning purposes.
Responsibilities
- Work hand in hand with Strategy Partner on all matters pertaining to idea generation overall strategy development and leading delivery.
- Ensure tools research strategy and planning processes are at the forefront of current thinking.
- Lead the training and development of the agency in strategic thinking.
- Identify opportunities to engage with key senior clients and lead important projects with support of the team.
- Build the strongest and deepest client relationships through bestinclass strategy
- Maintain relationships with senior integration leads at media companies.
- Forge an inspiring relationship with data and analytics teams to uncover unique and powerful dataled & consumer insights.
- Ensure developed strategic direction has clear and wellarticulated implications for media planning and have a leading working knowledge of channel planning linked primarily to an understanding of media effectiveness and marketing science.
- Collaborate with activation team members to ensure the strategic direction works with the channels planned and campaign ideas.
- Create a strong culture of teamwork and knowledge sharing within the team.
- Lead the packaging and sharing of great work.
- Win the right awards and generate appropriate trade press coverage for campaigns.
Experience
- Mastery level knowledge and skills within Strategy and Planning with a broad understanding of different communication disciplines (PR sponsorship etc. and how they work together.
- Requires a minimum of 8 years of experience.
- Relevant qualification in preferably post graduate
- Experience leading Media Projects and working with outside agencies including creative and media.
Working at Wavemaker
Inclusive policies
- Flexible work environment
- Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents and carers throughout their parenting and caring journey.
- Discounts and corporate benefits
- Continuous training and development opportunities
Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often dont apply for roles if they dont meet all the criteria. Here we strongly encourage you to apply if youre interested: wed love to know how you can positively impact our team with your experience!
We believe that diversity is vital and positively influences the environment in which we operate. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment that is free of discrimination harassment or bullying. Race colour ancestry religion gender gender identity national origin sexual orientation age marital status disability or veteran status have no bearing on our hiring decisions we encourage all applicants.
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Employment Type
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