Strategy Director

Agency :

Host/Havas

Job Description :

Havas Host is on the hunt for an awesome Strategy Director to join our Sydney-based agency.

Firstly, a bit about us.

We’ve changed immigration for entire nations. We’ve uncovered new and shifting values for Australians. We’ve created #1 charting podcasts, #1 charting songs and #1 charting apps.

We work with global clients like Tourism Fiji, Fiji Airways, IKEA, Blackmores and Avis Budget Group, alongside brilliant local clients including Stockland and Tassal. We’re pretty proud of the work we’ve achieved with these clients, in fact we’ve redefined what advertising agencies are capable of. Oh, and we have some of the highest culture scores in the industry.

We’re also part of the Havas Village, bringing together Creative, Media and PR. That creates a huge amount of opportunity to learn from different disciplines, collaborate with different kinds of thinkers and solve bigger problems for some amazing clients.

But for excellence to come out, excellence has to go in. And that’s where you come in.

We’re looking for a brilliant Strategy Director to join our strategy team.

Our strategic philosophy is called Unusual Works.

We believe the best creative work starts by identifying the usual. The category conventions, assumptions, behaviours and accepted ways of doing things that everyone else has stopped questioning.

Then we look for the unusual. A different way into the problem that can unlock a disproportionate creative and commercial opportunity.

So we’re not looking for someone who simply takes a brief and turns it into a strategy deck. We want someone who loves getting underneath a problem. Someone who can interrogate the brief, understand what’s really holding a brand back and find the Unusual Starting Point that gives creative teams somewhere genuinely interesting to go.

That means being comfortable moving between culture, consumers, categories and commercial reality. Knowing when a brand needs an evolution of what it already does well and when the opportunity demands something closer to a revolution.

• Clients feel comfortable that you will have a considered and articulate point of view on their brand and business, they would describe you as strategically indispensable. You are comfortable building relationships with them.

• You are output neutral and creative teams see you as a source of good creative opportunities and trust that you will eke out the most interesting creative opportunity from any brief.

• You are a strong partner to the account director on the business and are as capable as they are in building client trust and relationship.

• You can write and deliver a presentation that makes the complex simple. It will be well structured, signposted and robustly supported. You’ll be able to deliver it confidently.

• You are focused on effectiveness and competent in research, analytics and reporting.

• You have a sense of curiosity and interest in understanding business problems and developing strategic/creative solutions to address them.

• You are a self-starter and look to lead strategy rather than wait to be asked.

• You work well with people within your team. Within the agency and the broader Village.

About Havas

The Havas Village is a unique model — creative, digital, content, PR, media and partnerships, all under one roof. We build teams around our clients’ needs, not our own structures, with offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.

At HAVAS, we are committed to building a future that is inclusive to all, where you can bring your whole self to work and feel valued, respected, and supported to succeed. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds, identities, beliefs, age, and abilities, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, to apply for this or any role with us.

We look forward to meeting you.

If this sounds like you, we’d absolutely love to hear from you.

Contract Type :

Permanent

Here at Havas across the group we pride ourselves on being committed to offering equal opportunities to all potential employees and have zero tolerance for discrimination. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants irrespective of age, sex, race, ethnicity, disability and other factors that have no bearing on an individual’s ability to perform their job.

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About Us

Founded in 1835 by Charles-Louis Havas, Havas is one of the world’s largest global communications groups, with more than 23,000 people in over 100 countries sharing one single mission: to make a meaningful difference to brands, businesses, and people. Havas has developed a fully integrated model covering all communications activities. The teams of the three business units, Creative, Media and Health & You, work together with agility and in perfect synergy to offer clients tailor-made, meaningful, innovative and entertainment-oriented solutions that support them in their positive transformation.

Life at Havas

We take great pride in our Havas family. They bring many unique personalities, perspectives and passions to their work. Collaboration is at the core of how we operate, and Havas Villages are the homes we work in. We encourage our people to take advantage of our many opportunities to learn and grow. Through local agency training sessions, our unique global and development programs, we offer our people endless opportunities to explore.

Havas Creative Network

At Havas, we believe creativity isn’t just a description of our business, it is part of our agencies’ DNA. We bring together some of the industry’s most creative and accomplished agencies. By combining creative expertise with the strategic and innovative power of our Villages, we can build seamless teams around the individual needs of each of our clients.

Havas Media Network

We create the best media experience, capitalizing on the most meaningful media to build more meaningful brands. We know how to connect a client with their target audience – in the context of where they are, through the content they pay attention to. We deliver this expertise through the Mx System, our global operating methodology and strategic planning process, that creates value for our clients by turning consumer intelligence into clear growth targets, aligning stakeholders and KPIs, and measuring the impact of media experiences.

Havas Health

Driven by human purpose and focused on the betterment of humanity through health, Havas Health & You leverages a global collection of experts and individuals to help people everywhere live healthier lives. With a spirit rooted in innovation, creativity, and education, we are dedicated to delivering consistent excellence and groundbreaking work.