- We are currently looking for a Senior Director - Strategy, who integrates the different thinking and weaving functions together to offer a holistic business solution.

- You should have a strong track record in delivering tangible business results for clients, strong strategic skills, and the ability to manage multiple stakeholders and team members.

- The position is to lead strategy for a set of diverse clients in future forward thinking across business, media, data and technology.

- This will involve integrated capability in traditional & digital media, search and content marketing, measurement and attribution, creation and application of strategic frameworks and cross category business understanding.

- This role also involves communication with global teams and bringing together the best of WPP Media to clients as well as internal teams.

Reporting of the role:

This role reports to the General manager - Strategy.

Role Summary And Impact:

3 best things about the job:

- A great and diverse team with a lot of learning opportunities.

- Diverse set of clients with great opportunities for quality thinking and opportunities beyond spots and dots.

- An opportunity to have a leadership role in a progressive, fast moving and one of its kind organisation.

Measures of success:

In Three Months:.

- Build relationships with the key decision makers at client side and within the company.

- Be an expert on the client's business proactively engaging with senior clients and actively shaping the quality of WPP Media delivery.

- Develop a deep understanding and begun to use WPP Open and the products and tools therein.

- Build confidence with team members within immediate team and within peers.

In Six Months:

- Proactively delivering additional value to the client, leading the team to successfully implement strategic initiatives that will improve the WPP Media delivery and client's business outcomes.

- Established as the lead by both clients and internal teams alike.

- Leading new business pitches independently.

In 12 Months:

- Delivering differentiated and best in class work leading to business outcomes.

- Building and mentoring teams.

- Becoming the go to person for internal and external stakeholders alike from a strategic standpoint.

Responsibilities Of The Role:

- Leads a team of diverse individuals to deliver to a client's business.

- Provide strategy communications and planning leadership on the client's business across categories.

-Partner with the account heads and functional heads, push needle on Marketing Excellence and Digital Excellence.

- Demonstrates strong understanding of ecosystem, brand, category and consumer to derive insights.

- Infuse best in class practices and frameworks, both from domestic as well as international learnings.

- Communicate complex ideas/insights in a way that all understand and apply.

- Integrates relevant multimedia opportunities into campaign plans.

- Leading and orchestrating new business pitches.

- Leverage extended WPP ecosystem to build hard working solutions for client.

Skills And Experience:

- 12+ years of experience with at least 10 years in the media industry.

- Demonstrate exposure and management of senior clients/ stakeholders as well as leading a team.

- Integrated media and marketing knowledge, including traditional media, digital media, data, research and insights.

- Creative problem solving and ability to join multiple dots across domains.

- An attitude of curiosity and continuous learning both for self as well as infuse the same culture within the team.

- Comfort with multiple kinds and sources of data, both structured and unstructured.

- Fantastic presentation and storytelling skills.