Senior Director, Strategy

You're a highly reputable strategic leader who shapes our discipline, our business, and the future of brand building. You set the standard for how we think, how we work, and what we deliver. You have the authority and experience to counsel the most senior clients, develop the next generation of strategists, and drive the growth and reputation of Interbrand. At Interbrand, you'll lead our most transformational engagements, build relationships that define our client portfolio, and play a critical role in setting the strategic direction of the business. You'll work alongside peers and the Chief Strategy Officer to shape what strategy means at Interbrand, champion our point of view externally, and create the conditions for our teams to produce their most iconic work. This is a role where your thinking, relationships, and leadership shape the trajectory of our business and our people.

Responsibilities

Lead our most complex and strategically significant client engagements, often across multiple workstreams, geographies, and disciplines; Build and steward relationships with our most important clients at the highest executive levels; Use our Thinking & Making approach and Three Lenses (Human Truth, Brand Economics, Experience) to push provocative discussions; Present and influence at the highest levels with authority, charisma, and conviction; Lead, mentor, and develop senior strategy talent; Shape the strategic direction of the office or region; Drive significant new business by building market relationships, leading major pitches, identifying strategic opportunities, and helping define our competitive positioning; Represent Interbrand externally through speaking, writing, media, industry events, and conferences; Contribute to Interbrand's global thought leadership and evolving methodology; Champion a culture of feedback, accountability, and excellence; Collaborate with global leadership, discipline heads, and principals; Stay consistently ahead of market shifts, competitive movements, and where the economy and culture are heading

Requirements

Lead portfolios of clients; overseen a large team; been in either a Head of or regional role previously; built a reputation for exceptional strategic thinking; led transformational client engagements; developed senior talent; played a significant role in growing a business; provocative thinker who pushes the boundaries of what strategy can be; builds strategies combining Human Truth, Brand Economics, and Experience; communicates with authority and presence; writes with conviction; presents with charisma; facilitates conversations that unlock transformational thinking; builds deep trust across the organization and with clients; takes full accountability for clients, teams, and contribution to the business; balances strategic ambition with commercial reality; has insatiable curiosity about brands, culture, business, and what's emerging

Benefits

Transparent career pathways; on-demand learning; honest feedback; real collaboration across borders; culture that champions difference and wellbeing