Strategy Business Director

Overview

As Strategy Business Director at Spark Foundry, you shape brilliant strategic planning for a leading finance client. You turn audience, behavioural and performance data into actionable insights that drive growth and creative excellence. You will align planning with activation across PESO and coach teams to elevate craft. This role offers impact through solving complex briefs and pushing innovative thinking into practice.

Pay / Benefits

• Pension
• Life Assurance
• Private Medical cover
• Reflection Days
• Shared Parental Leave
• inclusive benefits via Publicis Groupe

Responsibilities

• Own the strategic planning standard for a leading finance client, turning briefs into strong, insight-led work
• Translate audience, behavioural and performance data into meaningful insights that unlock opportunities for creative and communications
• Lead connected communications planning across PESO, ensuring strategy translates across channels
• Bridge strategy and execution by partnering with planning and activation teams to craft rigorous media work
• Embed effectiveness and measurement in planning, linking brand ambitions to performance outcomes
• Strengthen planning capability through coaching, learning sessions, and sharing best practices
• Tackle complex briefs with fresh thinking and new ways of working to strengthen Spark Foundry’s planning product

Key requirements

• Strong strategic planning craft with a track record of meaningful client impact
• Analytical mindset capable of turning data and insights into strategic direction
• Understanding of connected communications planning across PESO and channel integration
• Knowledge of marketing effectiveness and embedding measurement in planning
• Experience solving complex strategic challenges with incomplete information
• Ability to present complex thinking clearly through data-led storytelling and presentations
• Collaborative leadership to coach others and influence stakeholders

• Collaborative leadership
• Coachability and willingness to share knowledge
• Clear and persuasive communication
• Curiosity and problem-solving mindset
• PESO planning

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