Strategy Director

Overview

In this Strategy Director role, you shape bold communications strategies that drive measurable growth for top UK brands. You’ll lead cross-functional teams to translate business goals into ambitious, data-informed media plans and ensure recommendations support long-term expansion. You’ll champion campaign effectiveness, set success metrics, and apply insights to future work. This position offers influence over strategy development, agency-wide capability building, and opportunities to strengthen client partnerships in a collaborative, innovative culture.

Pay / Benefits

• Pension
• Life Assurance
• Private Medical cover
• Reflection Days
• Shared Parental Leave
• inclusive benefits page on Publicis Career Page

Responsibilities

• Develop communications strategies translating business objectives into measurable media plans
• Lead strategic thinking across client accounts to support growth
• Partner with client leads and cross-functional teams to deliver integrated strategies
• Champion campaign effectiveness by defining metrics and applying insights
• Provide clear strategic direction from planning to activation
• Mentor planners and develop strategic capability across the agency
• Identify opportunities to strengthen client partnerships and drive innovation

Key requirements

• Experience developing media or brand strategies with measurable outcomes
• Strong strategic thinking linking data, insight and creativity
• Confident communicator who can influence senior stakeholders
• Analytical mindset translating evidence into practical action
• Collaborative mindset with relationship-building focus
• Curiosity about people, media, and evolving communications landscape
• Proactive, adaptable and motivated to deliver lasting client value

• Collaborative
• Influential communication
• Curiosity
• Data-informed strategy
• Insight-to-action translation
• Measurement and evaluation of campaigns

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