Associate Director, Strategy

Job title:

Associate Director, Strategy

Company

Mindshare

Job description

Description

Mindshare
Title: Associate Director, Strategy
Team / Department: Strategy

Mindshare is a global media agency with offices in over 86 countries. In Canada, we are a passionate team of over 200 people with offices in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver with a singular focus on helping our clients find a sustained path to Good Growth.

We aim to be our clients’ lead business partner and to grow their business. When our clients have a problem, a challenge, a product or even a thought, we are proud to be their first port of call. We partner with some of the world’s largest and most recognizable brands, and our role is to make our clients’ brands more famous and more profitable. We sit today uniquely placed at the crossroads of media, data, technology and content and there is no other business partner who can have as transformative an impact on our client’s businesses as we can.

Whenever and wherever you join us, you open a door to opportunities in any and all aspects of media, technology and innovation. We will encourage you to break the rules, knock things down, rebuild them better, and push the boundaries of what’s possible. Our success takes a team of people who are invested in our culture, each other’s success, and their own growth, and together we make Mindshare Canada the place where we do the best work of our career.

OVERVIEW:

Mindshare is looking for an Associate Director, Strategy with a passion for marketing and a curiosity for media in advertising. This role sits within our client squad team and is an integral part in creating meaningful interactions between people and brands, providing the critical foundation for how we can drive brand growth and business growth. Its responsibility is to link the business strategy to a communication strategy and translate the communications strategy into an optimal and integrated framework that identifies the key elements (e.g. channels, content formats) that are needed to bring the plan to life. Its ultimate ambition is to tangibly and effectively articulate how consumers will experience the core creative idea across all paid, owned and earned communication touchpoints, in a way that adds value to the brand, the consumer, and culture. We are looking for someone who loves solving client’s business challenges and can articulate complicated ideas in simple ways. This role reports directly to the Group Account Director.

YOUR IMPACT:

• Establish themselves a true business partner in clients’ business with knowledge of clients’ business needs, issues, opportunities, and imperatives
• Dissect the brief to identify and align on the real challenge and opportunity for communications, in direct partnership with different internal teams and client brand, media and research teams
• Define category, business, and brand drivers, define and prioritize target audiences
• Create understanding of the customer journey/decision-making development

• Unearth, synthesize, and align the most critical and transformational insights across brand, category, culture and communications, identifying commonalities across the cluster market
• Create actionable, strategic communications platforms that support the creative idea
• Design and visualize the supporting communications framework for how the strategies will be deployed, requiring:
• Identification of the most impactful media touchpoints, their specific role and how they should be measured
• Identification of moments of receptivity that will help our advertising break through
• Identification of cultural and competitive agility triggers that will help our brands activate in real time
• Identification of breakthrough media ideas, media innovation priorities and media partnerships
• Cascade communication strategies to internal disciplines responsible for its deployment and activation
• Manage the alignment of partner agencies with the communication strategy
• Conduct regular check-ins with the activation and measurement teams to keep ahead of new learning and insight that may inform how to make improvements to the strategy
• Work in close partnership with industry leading media partners

YOUR QUALIFICATIONS:

• College Diploma or Bachelor’s degree, preferably with a concentration in advertising, marketing, business administration, and communications, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years in business planning, communications planning, strategic planning, or account planning (media or creative agency experience preferred)
• Knowledge of the fundamentals of business planning (eg. media fundamentals, consumer segmentation, customer journey, measurement models, budget setting , etc.)
• Strong understanding of media sophistication/nuances across markets
• Comprehensive understanding of communications formats across channels
• Experience mining for insights and creating strategies across markets

YOUR QUALITIES:

• Embraces the Mindshare Growth Mindset by exhibiting adaptability, inclusivity, sincerity, curiosity, entrepreneurial spirit, and teamwork
• Excellent time management skills; proven ability to prioritize and organize workload, and operate under tight deadlines while managing multiple projects
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; strong presentation and storytelling capabilities
• Exceptional organizational skills and detail oriented
• Effective application of different types of data feeds to build a story
• Desire and dedication to be knee-deep in the process, meeting with creative and media teams, mining for insights, interfacing with clients, identifying opportunities and pushing the boundaries of what is possible in marketing, daily
• Enthusiasm about the business, the people it serves and how media and technology advancements can make that happen
• An acumen to be involved in the on-going dialogue about the business, helping to confidently and autonomously drive through complex projects
• Ability to work on own initiative; pre-emptive and proactive; constantly thinking ahead; demonstrating a hands-on and highly organized approach to all tasks
• Strong leadership and people skills that inspire and captivate the team, teach and mentor their peers daily, and a passion to share great work amongst each other
• A track record of collaboration leading to results
• Ability to foster collaborative relationships with other cross-functional teams
• Ability to adapt and work in a fast-paced work environment effectively
• Strong capability in customer service skills and communications
• Strong leadership and people skills; ability to manage direct reports
• Comfortable with ambiguity – flexible and adaptable with a willingness to learn and assist

ABOUT MINDSHARE:

GroupM and all of its affiliates embrace and celebrate diversity and inclusivity. We are committed to creating a safe and respectful work environment, and building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are a worldwide media agency network that represents global clients. The more inclusive and collaborative we are, the more great work we can create together.

Mindshare encourages all qualified candidates to apply and has an exceptional record of accommodating the needs of our staff. If you require accommodation at any stage of the application process, or would like more information on our policies, please contact 416 987 5100.

To learn more about Mindshare and our philosophy of Original Thinking, visit us at /canada and follow us on Twitter @mindshare, and .

Expected salary

Location

Toronto, ON

Job date

Wed, 07 Feb 2024 07:23:28 GMT

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