Associate Strategy Director

Role Overview

• Manage projects end-to-end with minimal guidance, and support senior colleagues with independence and proactivity.
• Supporting junior team members with effective delegation and briefing.
• Confidently define the narrative and content for new business meetings and support client services with defining process for SOWs.
• Identify opportunities to improve project design and processes and bringing fresh ideas to growth opportunities.
• Regular author of external facing articles/ reviews that can also act to inspire team members to always raise the bar.
• Research markets, audiences, culture and category dynamics
• Identify sharp insights that unlock strong brand ideas
• Develop compelling and creative brand positioning, purpose frameworks and comms strategies
• Write clear creative briefs and strategic narratives that progress or unlock clients problems
• Able to demonstrate the commercial impact of work
• Support or lead client presentations and workshops
• Work closely with creatives to make the work stronger
• Build strong day‑to‑day client relationships
• build trust to handle feedback and navigate difficult conversations with clients.

Requirements

• Brand positioning and narrative development
• Communications planning and messaging
• Understanding of how brands show up culturally
• Ability to structure problems and arguments
• Turning research into clear, actionable insight
• Strong point of view, not just synthesis
• Excellent writing (decks, briefs, strategy docs)
• Confident verbal communication with clients and teams
• Ability to explain complex ideas simply
• Comfortable partnering with creatives
• Improves work through discussion and challenge
• Builds trust with clients over time
• Genuine interest in sustainability, impact, ethics or social change

Benefits

• Work within a highly motivated team in an innovative and rapidly growing global company
• Opportunity to have a direct impact and be a key part of the growth and development of the business and the team
• Competitive salary in line with, experience and skills
• Competitive benefits including flexible working, 25 days holiday and two volunteering days off and the day off for your Birthday!
• An opportunity to participate in the Anthesis Employee Participation Plan (EPP), an industry-pioneering employee incentive plan that allows all employees to be rewarded for the growth in the equity value of Anthesis.
• Cooperative, supportive and open working atmosphere.