Head of Strategy & Development

What Success Looks Like

In your first few months, you’ll have:

• Managed strategic projects across several departments.
• Become a trusted advisor to key teams across Global.
• Developed strategic insights that inform crucial decisions.
• Built a deep knowledge of Global’s audiences, customers, services and markets.

What You’ll Need

• Strategy toolkit: A broad strategy toolkit, including strategic thinking, project management, modelling and presentation skills, developed through working on strategic projects in a strategy consultancy and/or commercial organisation for 2-5 years.
• Ownership: Proven ability to take end-to-end ownership of workstreams with a high level of independence, including leading analysis, managing stakeholders, and producing deliverables. Skilled at engaging senior leaders to secure input, guidance and alignment.
• Media passion: The ability to demonstrate real passion for advertising, media, digital products, and the importance of data and personalisation.
• Media knowledge: An understanding of the UK media and entertainment landscape, and evolving consumer propositions.
• High performance: A track record of exceeding expectations and delivering outstanding results. Exceptional attention to detail.
• Problem-solving: Ability to structure and solve complex strategic problems and to create presentations that clearly explain the results.
• Excel and quantitative skills: Strong excel and numerical skills with experience building financial models to evaluate organic growth opportunities and acquisitions.
• Relationship building: Skilled at building relationships and influencing key stakeholders both internally and externally.
• Leadership: Experience leading and coordinating cross-functional teams to deliver projects.
• Executive-level communication: Experience in synthesising insights, preparing and delivering succinct reporting and responses at Board level.
• Organisational skills: Highly organised, with a structured and disciplined approach to manage and prioritise heavy workloads in a deadline-oriented role. The role will typically be working on multiple projects simultaneously, and the candidate will need to prioritise appropriately whilst making sure each project continues to progress.
• Adaptability: The unpredictability of the role’s project-based requirements may result in unusual or longer hours being incurred on occasion, as well as travel from time to time.
• Bias to action: The candidate needs to be proactive, rigorous and analytical with a hands-on and “sleeves rolled up” approach.
• M&A (Preferred): Experience evaluating and executing M&A transactions preferred, but not a requirement.