M+C Saatchi Group
Senior Strategy Director
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Senior Strategy Director
Senior Strategy Director – London, M+C Saatchi Consulting
This is a pivotal leadership role within our London team, offering the opportunity to work with some of the world's most ambitious brands and organisations, helping them navigate growth, change, and transformation. We are looking for a strategic leader who combines intellectual curiosity, commercial instinct, and a passion for solving complex challenges to create meaningful impact for clients and the business.
About the Role
The Senior Strategy Director is one of the most senior consulting roles in our London team. The role spans the full breadth of our brand-led consulting work—including brand strategy and positioning, portfolio strategy, brand architecture, innovation, customer and category growth, and commercial transformation.
Key Responsibilities:
Leading Client Engagements
- Independently lead large, transformational brand strategy engagements end-to-end, from framing the brief to designing the approach, delivering board-level recommendations.
- Act as a senior advisor to client C-suites and CMOs, shaping brand-led growth agendas with board-level impact.
- Take ultimate responsibility for the clarity, rigour and inspiration of client deliverables.
- Lead strategic storytelling and high-impact recommendations, supported by the broader consulting team.
Driving New Business & Account Growth
- Own a portfolio of pillar and secondary accounts, delivering on retention, growth, and financial performance.
- Actively target new clients and lead high-profile pitches and proposals.
- Identify organic growth opportunities within existing client relationships and convert them into meaningful engagements.
Research & Intelligence
- Be fluent in the full insight toolkit: qualitative methods, quantitative research, analytics, and AI-powered tools, and understand how to apply them effectively.
- Push the quality of our analytical approach, challenging internal and external teams to deliver world-class outputs.
- Convert insights into actionable brand strategy programmes clients can implement immediately.
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Shaping Our Offer & IP
- Contribute to developing new tools, frameworks and proprietary thinking that enhance our consulting offer.
- Develop thought leadership (published content, perspectives) to generate client conversations and position M+C Saatchi as a go-to authority in brand strategy and brand-led growth.
- Build on and expand our proprietary frameworks, including Return on Cultural Power (RoCP).
Leadership & Team Development
- Coach, develop and line manage more junior consultants, helping them build strategic, commercial, and craft skills.
- Set the standard for client management, project delivery, and team behaviour.
- Act as an ambassador for M+C Saatchi’s culture and values, fostering positive interdisciplinary relationships.
About You
We are seeking a highly accomplished senior consultant with exceptional experience, judgement, and leadership. The ideal candidate should exhibit most—or all—of the following:
- Extensive experience in brand strategy consulting, preferably in a brand-led consultancy which combines strong commercial rigour and growth strategy knowledge.
- A track record of leading complex brand strategy and innovation engagements for major global clients, delivering significant transformation results.
- Fluency in qualitative, quantitative, and AI-driven research methods, and the ability to leverage them in sharp, commercially robust brand strategies.
- A strong track record in driving agency growth, through pitches, proposals, and client relationships, including both organic expansion and net-new business wins.
- Exceptional storytelling skills, capable of simplifying complex ideas into clear, convincing narratives that drive decision-making.
- Sharp commercial instincts, with experience owning account P&Ls, balancing creative ambition with commercial discipline.
- A board-credible presence—comfortable advising C-suite clients and navigating stretching conversations.
- A proven coaching and development instinct, including a track record of mentoring and fostering the next generation of strategists.
- Lateral, creative thinking to inspire others and solve problems differently.
- Right to work in the UK (we are unable to sponsor work visas).
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About M+C Saatchi Consulting
M+C Saatchi Consulting is part of the CEP Engine—Consulting, Experience and Performance—combining interconnected efforts to drive growth powered by culture. Our brands and teams operate across multiple regions, with EMEA as a priority, including some of our most significant client relationships.
About M+C Saatchi Group
M+C Saatchi Group is a creative solutions company, blending specialist expertise, data, technology, and culture to help clients navigate, create, and sustain purposeful change. Our five divisions:
- Connected Creativity
- Passion Marketing
- Global & Social Issues
- Brand, Experience & Innovation
- Performance Media
Valeurs Principales (Two Core Principles):
- Diversity of Thought – shaping teams and solving problems differently.
- Brutal Simplicity – building clarity into every solution.
Operating in 23 countries, with major hubs in UK, Europe, US, Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia.
As an equal opportunity employer, M+C Saatchi bases all work and promotions on talent and capability, celebrating diversity.
GDPR Compliance: All employee information is kept confidential.
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