Strategy Director

WONGDOODY is a human experience company, powered by Infosys with offices in London, Berlin, Amsterdam, the U.S, India and Australia. Since our founding in 1993, we have won hundreds of global awards for creativity and marketing effectiveness, while building a culture that consistently makes WONGDOODY one of the "Best Places to Work". We recognize that our people and our culture are paramount to our success. It is a very exciting time here at WONGDOODY. We’re opening doors to a host of new client opportunities and capabilities, while ensuring that our current clients never outgrow the scope and scale of what we can deliver. And this paves the way for growth and expansion into new markets.

We are a team of fun, fearless, ego-less, values-driven and collaborative problem-solvers distributed around the world with one goal in mind – human experience. Human experiences are the touch points that make brands and technology matter to customers. We use strategy, creativity and data to develop engaging experiences that transform businesses. And those experiences are backed by the global technological strength of Infosys.

If you’d like to be part of our outstanding team, helping to grow WONGDOODY as well as your own career, please read on and check us out more at www.wongdoody.com.

WONGDOODY Europe is seeking a Strategy Director for our London Studio. They are 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 Strategy Director 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.

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. As the owner of the opportunity and the vision holding a deep understanding of what success looks like, it is critical that the Strategy Director 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 Strategy Director works independently with high level supervision from the Head of Strategy EMEA. They must be pro-active and independent in running their aspect of projects but feel confident that they are part of a supportive whole.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The Strategy Director at WONGDOODY Europe will be responsible for:

Establishing and maintaining credibility with internal (client leads) and external (client) stakeholders within the digital strategy space. Becoming internal sales team’s ’go to’ person to open up experience, design and transformation opportunities with existing clients.

Working with the clients/Infosys account team to identify design led transformation opportunities based on internal (client led) and external (marketplace) factors either shared or discovered proactively leveraging research tools.

Collecting and analysing data to clearly frame this opportunity/challenge into a concrete brief – with linked KPI’s which the wider team can start to ideate around. And ’selling in’ this idea to the client/Infosys account team/fellow WONGDOODY members as a digital transformation opportunity.

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 Strategy Director identified.

QUALIFICATIONS

You have extensive project experience and are strong in understanding the following:

• People’s needs and behaviours as end consumers, employees or partners
• Clients and their point of view, broader context and priorities in order to identify synergies and mitigate potential conflicts
• Emerging and mainstream technology at a broad level with a level of curiosity about how it can be leveraged in fresh ways to achieve strategic goals.

You 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 performance
• Superb verbal, written, presentation and interpersonal communication skills.
• Flexible thinker, highly adaptable, and able to juggle competing priorities with ease
• Adept at quickly navigating organisational complexities
• Business development acumen, to identify further opportunities and help grow our practise
• An understanding of the impact of brand and importance of maintaining brand integrity
• Skill at understanding market problems and developing strategic recommendations which deliver on growth opportunities through bringing products or services to market
• Hands-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/hypothesis
• Experience designing and facilitating workshops and activities for clients and colleagues in both large and small groups
• Creating and taking to market a sales proposition
• Knowledge of presentation tools, such as Keynote and PowerPoint
• Comfortable in consult, sell or deliver mode
• A sense of humour!

Your experience includes:

• Extensive digital product and /or service experience (+/- 12 years ideally more)
• Extensive broad vertical experience in one industry area (7 years+)
• Establishing and growing a pipeline of business
• Digital practice within one or more of the following:
  • Big Consulting organisation
  • Digital practice (product development) within advertising holding company or major agency
  • Digital/design practice within client side

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

TO 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.