Strategy Director

Established in 2004 OLIVER is the worlds first and only specialist in designing building and running bespoke in-house agencies and marketing ecosystems for brands. We partner with over 300 clients in 40 countries and counting. Our unique model drives creativity and efficiency allowing us to deliver tailored solutions that resonate deeply with audiences.

As a part of The Brandtech Group were at the forefront of leveraging cutting-edge AI technology to revolutionise how we create and deliver work. Our AI solutions enhance efficiency spark creativity and drive insightful decision-making empowering our teams to produce innovative and impactful results.

Role:Strategy Director

Location: Toronto ON

About the role:

What you will be doing:

• Lead strategic output across paid and organic sociale commerceand data driven marketing (Precision PRM Performance).
• Translate qualitative and quantitative research into compelling insights and creative briefs.
• Partner with discipline leads toidentifygrowth opportunities and convert them into client initiatives propositions and thought leadership.
• Build andmaintaintrusted relationships with the clientsstakeholders; shape and communicate the evolving role of strategy in their transformation.
• Raise the bar for strategic thinking and creative excellence across thestudio.
• Ensure brand digital and social strategies areunderstood and activated at market level across global operations.
• Uncover cultural and behavioral insights that create competitiveadvantage.
• Spot strategic and commercialopportunityin every brief and drive innovation in team structure contentdeliveryand campaign models.
• Drive development and adoption of AI capabilities across the strategy team while safeguarding strategic rigor and creative craft.
• A proventrack recordin strategic planning within creative/agency environments withstrong evidenceof brand growth and creative excellence
• Strategic and commercialexpertisethat connects insight to business outcomes and measurable brand impact
• Deepunderstanding of digital and social ecosystems including platform dynamics content strategies and performance marketing
• Expertisein social and digital strategy across paid/organic social e-commerce and data-driven marketing channels
• The ability to simplify complexityunpicking challenging problems and transforming them into clear compelling strategies and ideas
• A talent for stakeholder management across all organizational levels building trusted client relationships and influencing senior marketing leaders
• Research capabilities and insight craftthe ability to synthesize data culture and consumerunderstanding into actionable creative direction
• Leadership skills that educate nurture and inspire teams and clients alike
• A passion for digital and social creativity with an eye for culturally relevant breakthrough work
• Strategic integration of AI tools (ChatGPT Claude cultural intelligence platforms social listening AI consumer insight tools) to enhance research efficiency and insight quality
• Agentic leadership: systematic approach to complex strategic challenges breaking down multi-brandNorth Americasprogramsinto clear strategic frameworks
• Experienceusing AI to accelerate research synthesis trend identification and insight generation whilemaintainingstrategic rigor
• Understanding of AIs role in creative strategy development with ability to guide responsible implementation that enhances rather than replaces human creativity
• Advanced agentic thinking for strategic planning:identifyingoptimalapproaches to brand challenges and executing with clear strategic reasoning
• Ability to drive AI capability development across strategy teams whilemaintainingthe craft of insight and creative briefing excellence

What you need to be great in this role:

• 8 years in strategic planning roles within creative or digital agency environments
• 5 years working at Director level with direct client leadership and team mentorship responsibilities
• Hands-on experience with FMCG clients or similar large-scale multi-market accounts (strongly preferred)
• Experience across social digital and integrated campaign strategy
• Track recordof developing strategies that have driven measurable brand and business growth
• International or multi-market strategic experience (preferred)
• At the time of thisposting the base salary for this position may range from CAD $157250.00 to CAD$175750.00.Individual compensation varies based onjob relatedfactors including location business needs level of responsibility experience and qualifications. The range listed is just onecomponentof OLIVERs total compensation package.

Req ID: 16618

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Our values shape everything we do:

BeAmbitiousto succeed

BeImaginativeto push the boundaries of whats possible

BeInspirationalto do groundbreaking work

Bealways learningand listening to understand

BeResults-focused to exceed expectations

Be actively pro-inclusive and anti-racist across our community clients and creations

OLIVER a part of the Brandtech Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all employees are encouraged to reach their full potential and individual differences are valued and respected. All applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race ethnicity religion gender sexual orientation gender identity age neurodivergence disability status or any other characteristic protected by local laws.

OLIVER has set ambitious environmental goals around sustainability with science-based emissions reduction targets. Collectively we work towards our missionembedding sustainability into every department and through every stage of the project lifecycle.