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Senior Director - Strategy & Insights
Senior Director - Strategy & InsightsConfidential • Bengaluru / Bangalore, India
Senior Director - Strategy & Insights

Senior Director - Strategy & Insights

Confidential • Bengaluru / Bangalore, India
30+ days ago
Job description

About WPP Media

WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients and communities. For more information, visit wpp.com.

WPP Media is WPP's global media collective. In a world where media is everywhere and in everything, we bring the best platform, people, and partners together to create limitless opportunities for growth. For more information, visit wppmedia.com

At WPP Media, we believe in the power of our culture and our people. It's what elevates us to deliver exceptional experiences for both our clients and each other. In this role it will be critical to embrace WPP & WPP Media's shared core values :

  • Be Extraordinary byto
  • Create an Open environment byby.
  • Lead Optimistically byto.

Role Summary and Impact

We are currently looking for a Senior Director- Strategy , who integrates the different thinking and weaving functions together to offer a holistic business solution.

You should have a strong track record in delivering tangible business results for clients, strong strategic skills, and the ability to manage multiple stakeholders and team members.

The position is to lead strategy for a set of diverse clients in future forward thinking across business, media, data and technology. This will involve integrated capability in traditional & digital media, search and content marketing, measurement and attribution, creation and application of strategic frameworks and cross category business understanding. This role also involves communication with global teams and bringing together the best of WPP Media to clients as well as internal teams.

Reporting of the role

This role reports to theGeneral manager - Strategy

Role Summary and Impact

3 best things about the job :

  • A great and diverse team with a lot of learning opportunities.
  • Diverse set of clients with great opportunities for quality thinking and opportunities beyond spots and dots.
  • An opportunity to have a leadership role in a progressive, fast moving and one of its kind organisation
  • Measures of success -

    In three months :

  • Build relationships with the key decision makers at client side and within the company.
  • Be an expert on the client's business proactively engaging with senior clients and actively shaping the quality of WPP Media delivery.
  • Develop a deep understanding and begun to use WPP Open and the products and tools therein.
  • Build confidence with team members within immediate team and within peers.
  • In six months :

  • Proactively delivering additional value to the client, leading the team to successfully implement strategic initiatives that will improve the WPP Media delivery and client's business outcomes.
  • Established as the lead by both clients and internal teams alike
  • Leading new business pitches independently
  • In 12 months :

  • Delivering differentiated and best in class work leading to business outcomes
  • Building and mentoring teams
  • Becoming the go to person for internal and external stakeholders alike from a strategic standpoint
  • Responsibilities of the role :

  • Leads a team of diverse individuals to deliver to a client's business
  • Provide strategy communications and planning leadership on the client's business across categories.
  • Partner with the account heads and functional heads, push needle on Marketing Excellence and Digital Excellence.
  • Demonstrates strong understanding of ecosystem, brand, category and consumer to derive insights.
  • Infuse best in class practices and frameworks, both from domestic as well as international learnings.
  • Communicate complex ideas / insights in a way that all understand and apply.
  • Integrates relevant multimedia opportunities into campaign plans.
  • Leading and orchestrating new business pitches
  • Leverage extended WPP ecosystem to build hard working solutions for client.
  • Skills and Experience

  • 12+years of experience with at least 10 years in the media industry.
  • Demonstrate exposure and management of senior clients / stakeholders as well as leading a team.
  • Integrated media and marketing knowledge, including traditional media, digital media, data, research and insights.
  • Creative problem solving and ability to join multiple dots across domains.
  • An attitude of curiosity and continuous learning both for self as well as infuse the same culture within the team.
  • Comfort with multiple kinds and sources of data, both structured and unstructured.
  • Fantastic presentation and storytelling skills.
  • Proven experience managing a team, negotiating different situations, skillsets, and personalities.
  • Life at WPP Media & Benefits

    Our passion for shaping the next era of media includes investing in our employees to help them do their best work, and we're just as committed to employee growth as we are to responsible media investment. WPP Media employees can tap into the global WPP Media & WPP networks to pursue their passions, grow their networks, and learn at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising. We have a variety of employee resource groups and host frequent in-office events showcasing team wins, sharing thought leadership, and celebrating holidays and milestone events. Our benefits include competitive medical, group retirement plans, vision, and dental insurance, significant paid time off, preferential partner discounts, and employee mental health awareness days.

    WPP Media is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

    We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we've adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

    Please read our Privacy Notice (https : / / www.wppmedia.com / pages / privacy-policy) for more information on how we process the information you provide.

    While we appreciate all applications received, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

    Skills Required

    Creative Problem Solving, traditional media, Digital Media

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