Strategy Director

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Job DetailsCountry: United Kingdom
State / Region / Province: London
Work Location: London
Domain: Delivery
Interest Group: Skills
Domain: Brand experience design | Brand Strategy
Company: ITL UK
Requisition ID: 128284BR
About UsWe are a Human Experience Company.
Human experience is not just what we do, it's who we are — a highly collaborative collection of global experts building experiences that can help transform businesses.
And because we are powered by Infosys, we have the skills and scale to build anything we can imagine, and to deliver it anywhere in the world.
Brand Engagement: we create fully integrated campaigns that live on the largest media stages.
Customer Experience: we design next-generation products, services and experiences that drive brand engagement and growth end to end.
Commerce: we believe there is no store of the future, only the consumer of the future.
As an HX company, we believe to solve a business problem, we must solve a human problem.
By doing so, we will create better human experiences that deliver business results.
Our strategists are essential in finding and solving that human problem.
WONGDOODY Europe is seeking an Associate Strategy Director for our London Studio.
The strategist is essential in the early stages of an engagement (which may be pre or post sale) in which the outlines of what we are trying to achieve for the client may be opaque – although the business imperative is clear.
The strategist will assess the situation through a number of lenses, identify the clear area of opportunity and establish the frameworks that will help guide us to the best outcome – not just in the early stages but throughout the project – to deliver successful human and business outcomes.
Our Digital Strategists work with a diverse, wide ranging team including business and data analysts, experience designers, other digital strategists and technologists across a range of geographies.
It is critical that the Strategist make clients and team members feel both comfortable with and engaged in the entire design process, whilst also ensuring that strategic considerations are integral at each step of the initiative.
The Associate Strategy Director will have their own deliverables/responsibilities and will also work closely with the UX team to help define the product/service that will be created which will uphold the strategic imperative on co-owned deliverables.
Responsibilities The Strategy Director at WONGDOODY Europe will be responsible for:
Collecting and analysing data to clearly frame an opportunity/challenge into a concrete brief or value proposition – with linked KPI's which the wider team can start to ideate around.
This could be for a pitch or a project.Supporting a cross functional team through the process of ideating, prototyping and ultimately scaling a digital solution which meets the original business and end user consumer need.
Acting as their guide to ensure they don't deviate from the initial strategic imperative that the strategist identified.Working closely with the UX team to express the strategy within the digital product/service – shared responsibilities include user research, facilitating workshops, creating personas and user journeys, ideation and testing.QualificationsYou Are:
Someone who wants to influence your own development.
You're looking for a company where you have the opportunity to pursue your interests across functions and geographies (Europe mainly).
You bring to the organisation the following competencies:
Strong academic performanceSuperb verbal, written, presentation and interpersonal communication skills.A self-starting and collaborative attitudeFlexible thinking, highly adaptable attitude, and able to juggle competing priorities with easeBusiness development acumen, to identify further opportunities and help grow our practiceExperience in understanding market problems and developing strategic recommendations which deliver on growth opportunities through bringing products or services to marketHands-on research expertise, from ethnographic and other qualitative research methods to quantitative methods (surveys, focus groups, quantitative analysis)Experience distilling research into concrete areas of opportunity/hypothesisExperience designing and facilitating workshops and activities for clients and colleagues in both large and small groupsKnowledge of presentation tools, such as Keynote and PowerPointA sense of humour!Your experience includes: Extensive experience in assessing people's needs and behaviours as end consumers, employees or partnersExtensive digital product and/or service experience (6/10 years ideally more)Extensive experience in digital product and service experience design and the type of support an experience design team needs to create an experience which will deliver against a strategy you have createdManagement of 1 or more peopleGrowing an account as a lead strategist supporting an account/engagement leadWorking with a range of different 'teams' collaborating to drive strategic outcomesDigital practice within one or more of the following:Big Consulting organisationDigital practice (product development) within advertising holding company or major agencyDigital/design practice within client sideAdditional InformationTO APPLY: For full consideration please upload a CV.
WONGDOODY is a proud Equal Employment Opportunity employer where we are committed to creating an equitable, diverse and inclusive workspace regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity.
We are intentional about creating a space which not only celebrates and embraces, but also reflects the diversity of the world we live in.
Candidates from diverse backgrounds strongly encouraged to apply.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Hybrid Working ApproachWe spent a great deal of time speaking with our teammates and our leaders to define our future way of working.
We used our values to guide our approach; putting relationships first, collaboration and having fun to find the right blend of flexibility and balance.
From March 2022, we'll come together every Tuesday to connect and collaborate, and then either a Wednesday or Thursday.
We'll continue to evolve the approach once we get into the swing of it, but we're confident we're starting from a good place.
BenefitsPrivate Medical InsuranceLife assurancePensionIncome protectionCycle to WorkSummer HoursEmployee Assistance ProgramRegular team socialsHybrid Working providing flexibility to work from our fabulous studio in Old Street and from home
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