【Closed】Strategy Director - Advertising Agency

Job Detail

• Reports directly to Managing Director
• Is a critical member of the senior management team; working with CEO, CFO and other senior management members to drive the business and agency to be profitable, from a strategy team perspective
• Works vertically and horizontally through all agency groups/teams to help deliver strategic solutions for each team and Client project
• Supervise and manages the Strategy Team (Two Strategic Planners)
• Overall responsibility to client projects from briefing to strategy building to creative development, executions and post project reporting, purely from a strategy perspective
• Ensures that her/his Strategy Team members partners and guides/steers other teams to deliver agency output to be on-strategy, that Client agrees to
• Works with market/industry/media data points, (market) research partners and combines with personal experience to deliver solid logical strategies and strategic input into all agency output/work.
• Supervises teams & projects for mainly two fundamentals throughout all teams & output:
• On-Strategy: Strategic input is ensured throughout all levels of work
• On-brief & on-brand output
• Is client facing when necessary/at key meetings, but is more importantly, responsible for delegating and allocating responsibility/accountability to team members.
• Must be challenging internally and to the Client as well, for best practices/results and output for the business
• Other assignment by the company

• Bachelor's degree or above from related field
• 15-20 years of related experience, with 7+ years in strategic leadership role in agency or corporate setting
• At least 4-6 years of experience managing a team (of ideally at least 4-5 members)
• Has an extensive knowledge and understanding of Thai consumer marketing data, Thai consumer journey, consumer media (including but not limited to digital/social media) touchpoints, Thai shopper marketing and uses this knowledge to deliver strong strategic insights to the work.
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Native Thai speaker with (at minimum) business conversation level English
• Is a logical thinker who can make strategic decisions and assumptions using a strong mix of science (data) and art
(experience, intuition, market & cultural understanding, creativity, etc)
• Solution oriented

<Preferable Skill / Experience (nice to have) >
• Experience or understanding of automobile industry or marketing of same industry
• Understands conversational JP