Job Description

Dentsu X Singapore is looking for a Strategy Director to work with our existing and prospective clients in creating ground-breaking work, reporting directly to our Head of Strategy

Job Title: Strategy Director

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Dentsu Group

Led by Dentsu Group Inc. (Tokyo: 4324; ISIN: JP3551520004), a pure holding company established on January 1, 2020, the Dentsu Group encompasses two operational networks: dentsu japan network, which oversees Dentsu\xe2\x80\x99s agency operations in Japan, and dentsu international, its international business headquarters in London, which oversees Dentsu\xe2\x80\x99s agency operations outside of Japan.

With a strong presence in approximately 145 countries and regions across five continents and with 65,000 dedicated professionals, the Dentsu Group provides a comprehensive range of client-centric integrated communications, media and digital services through its five leadership brands\xe2\x80\x94Carat, dentsu X, iProspect, Dentsu Creative, and Merkle\xe2\x80\x94as well as through Dentsu Japan Network companies, including Dentsu Inc., the world\xe2\x80\x99s largest single brand agency with a history of innovation. The Group is also active in the production and marketing of sports and entertainment content on a global scale.

About Dentsu Creative

Dentsu Creative operates in over [21] markets worldwide with more than [2,200] dedicated specialists. Bringing together our Japanese heritage in craft, data and technology, and our deep understanding of media and contemporary culture, Dentsu Creative is a new global creative agency. Born in Japan, raised in a digital world. We help transform brands and business through the power of Modern Creativity: which creates culture, changes society and invents the future and is accelerated by our deep specialist expertise in digital experience, earned attention and entertainment.

About the Role

As a Strategy Director in the Dentsu Creative team, you have demonstratable experience planning across multiple domains: finessing signals into powerful insights, succinct brief writing abilities, working closely with teams to get impactful ideas and strong deck storytelling skills across various verticals.

Key Responsibilities

Creative excellence: Demonstrate a strong passion and excitement for creativity. This is an end-to-end role where you\xe2\x80\x99ll feed the necessary steers to the team and help drive the work to a better place.

Brief interpretation: Comprehends client strategy and research questions, and able to turn their uncertainty into your compass for investigation and discovery.

Research: Performs robust and diligent intel gathering from across the web and in peoples\xe2\x80\x99 lives; pulling disparate signals together to make sense of perceptions and behaviour.

Interviews: Can lead expert and consumer interviews, design discussion guides, conduct interviews, and produce crisp analysis.

Data/Culture Analysis: Mining data and producing fresh insights by combining the revelations of data and the richness of cultural shifts.

Storytelling: Authors and designs logical presentation narratives to illustrate insights and informed client direction with complete ease.

Relationships: Fosters communication across project teams and with clients by presenting, and discussing the application of your strategy work

Management: The ideal candidate will want to build a team culture. Mentoring and managing a team underneath him/her.

Develop trusted, long-term relationships with important client contacts and executives

Qualifications

Bachelor\'s Degree.

8 or more years\' experience in creative agency environment.

Experience developing solutions to support the sale of new services to clients.

Well-versed with brand management and communication planning fundamentals.

Problem solver and have an analytical point of view.

Understand clients visible and invisible needs.

Networking skills.

High curiosity, drive, and determination.

Comfort and experience working within a matrixed organization in roles with a wide degree of latitude.

Working with us

Joining Dentsu Creative, you will be part of a creative network, delivering ideas that are brought alive in new ways. Along the way, you will team up with inspiring people across the world and become part of a truly inclusive culture where everyone is given the opportunity to thrive and create the best work of their careers; always learning and always listening to shape ideas, create culture and change behavior. By bringing together the capabilities, experience and relationships of our collective experts, the opportunities for personal growth and development are endless.

We are united by four signature strengths

Boundless Creativity \xe2\x80\x93 Kitsune Fox: In Japanese culture \xe2\x80\x93 the Kitsune Fox sees the future. We run towards the future, forever asking: what\xe2\x80\x99s next? Our imagination has no limit. Our clients seek us out because we believe there is no problem we cannot solve with the power of modern creativity.

Intelligent Scale - Ryujin Dragon: The Ryujin Dragon controls the ocean and the tides. We flow the right talent around the right brief in the right moment, wherever it sits in the world. We scale our unique ideas with precision, using intelligent technology to make personal connections with millions around the world.

Obsessive Craft - Orizuru Crane: The Orizuru Crane carries the soul up to paradise. It inspires the most classic and iconic Japanese origami. We elevate the soul of our work with an obsessive focus on craft, nurturing the next-gen craft skills needed to soar in a modern world.

Radical Collaboration - Kohaku Koi: The Koi swim upstream against the tide, united as one. We chart new territory through the power of radical collaboration. We seamlessly connect Creativity, Media and CXM to imagine new solutions at the intersection of craft, data, culture, and innovation.

Our Values

We believe our work can only resonate in the modern world if the people behind it reflect the modern work. We can only be truly relevant when we create a truly inclusive culture where everyone can thrive. That means \xe2\x80\x93 we are tough on the work but gentle with each other. We lead with empathy and are always listening and always learning. We support each other, we cheer for each other, we win together. We celebrate difference as the only way to make the work that makes a difference.

Inclusion and Diversity

We\xe2\x80\x99re proud to be different and that starts with our people. We believe in equal opportunities for everyone. We won\xe2\x80\x99t define people by their race, gender, sexual-orientation, age or disability. Individuality is what makes us great, we want everyone to bring their full self to work and create something amazing. That\xe2\x80\x99s what we care about.

So, whether you\xe2\x80\x99re joining us, or looking to move to a different part of the business, we work hard to make sure we create equal opportunities for everyone.

Keeping connected

Please visit our website to find out more and connect with us on social.

*Please include an updated CV in your application.

**We regret that only short-listed candidates will be notified.

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Location: Singapore

Brand: Dentsu Creative

Time Type: Full time

Contract Type: Permanent

Dentsu International