Strategy Director at a Global Marketing and Cooperate Communication Firm - Maurice Xandra Solutions Limited

Maurice Xandra Solutions Limited - Our client, a Global Marketing and Cooperate Communication Firm, is recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Strategy Director

Location: Lagos

Job Summary

• The Strategy Director will manage multiple projects and clients to a very high degree of quality, lead client engagement, form and grow trusted relationships, create high-impact strategic content, and maintain client profitability.
• He will be an inspirational leader on brands, trusted as such internally and externally by clients and creatives for delivering strategic thinking that answers their business problems, and a champion of their organization’s creative excellence.

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 BBDO 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Degree-qualified in Management, Social Sciences or a Business-related discipline; a relevant post-graduate degree will be an added advantage.
• 6 - 8 years of proven management experience in roles that demand coordination of multiple business entities
• Demonstrable success at a senior level in the marketing communications industry and thorough understanding of the market.
• Extensive client service experience working with both local and regional clients especially in building brand and communications strategy
• Strong relationship and interpersonal skills.

Application Closing Date
8th February, 2022.