Full-Time Strategy Director
Job Description
Grady Britton is a full-service brand agency based in Portland, Oregon. Our specialty lies in building brands that do more; creativity inspired by business goals and a will to be great. Grady Britton is a certified B Corporation. This certification means GB voluntarily invests in meeting significantly higher standards of sustainability, governance and giving back to the community in our daily operations. It stands for “Business as a Force for Good” versus a belief that business exists only to generate profit. Now more than ever, we want our time and talent applied toward greater purpose. Our mantra, “Leave today better than yesterday” is a simple North Star of an idea that brings us in everyday: improving, inspiring, challenging, creating for better. Our community, relationships, strategies, processes, the work— and especially, ourselves. It’s what motivates GB’s difference: building business for brands that put people first.
Grady Britton values the experience and knowledge that diverse team members bring to our workplace. This means we work to provide an environment of mutual respect, where all employees, regardless of identity can have their best career.
If you thrive in a creative agency environment and are expert at uncovering intriguing audience learnings and insights to drive business results for clients and set the foundation for great brand strategy and creative work, we’d like to talk with you. We’re looking for an experienced strategist who is well versed in leading research, implementing account planning techniques and can bring to the table innovative methods for obtaining customer insight.
Responsibilities:
- Represents client’s audiences in client meetings and presents research/strategy findings.
- Works as a fully integrated member of the client’s designated team with particular close cooperation with account management and creative teams.
- Provides leadership and guidance for other team members on branding initiatives.
- Crafts creative briefs and provides clear persuasive briefings to creatives.
- Recommends and implements research that will aid in the consumer insight gathering and strategic process.
- Develops accurate and insightful conclusions from research data and presents strategy and direction to the client.
- Monitors and interprets cultural and social trends relevant to the client’s business.
- Participates in new business development.
- Maintains an enthusiastic, inclusive and positive work environment.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of work experience in an advertising agency in a related area, including at least 8 years in account planning/strategy required.
- Proven brand strategy expertise and experience a must.
- Demonstrated strategy leadership, initiative, and willingness to assume greater responsibility.
- Excellent communication ability: Ability to read and interpret information from a variety of sources, such as trade journals, research reports, white papers and cross-tabulated survey data. Ability to write research reports, presentations, white papers and general business correspondence. Ability to effectively present research results to customers, clients and other employees of the organization.
- Excellent reasoning ability: Ability to define problems, collect information, establish facts and draw valid conclusions based upon information furnished in written, oral or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
- Strong interpersonal skills and a natural love for working with clients/teams.
- Organizational skills with deep attention to detail.
- Proactive, resourceful, solution-oriented, and able to multitask effectively.
- Flexible with an ability to shift gears quickly.
- A sense of urgency and responsiveness.
- Understands agency nuance (e.g. how to build trusting relationships with creative and other internal teams).
How to Apply
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