Associate Director, Strategy, MENA

Responsibilities

• Support strategic workstreams across multi-market pitches and global prospecting opportunities
• Lead medium and small local pitches from strategy writing through connection planning to presenting
• Develop and present compelling strategies in pitch, prospecting and internal meetings
• Apply agency brand planning approaches to create differentiated strategic thinking
• Bring together multidisciplinary inputs into a clear strategic story
• Work with the Insights team to incorporate category, consumer and cultural insights
• Support the Head of Growth across pitches and growth initiatives
• Share learnings and best practice across the wider strategy team

Requirements

• Strategy, growth, new business or client-facing strategic experience, ideally in media, marketing or agency
• Proven ability to develop and present compelling strategic thinking in pitches
• Ability to translate business challenges into differentiated strategic opportunities
• Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills
• Proactive, commercially minded and able to lead strategic workstreams independently

About the Company

WPP Media is WPP's AI-driven media operating unit, bringing together media, data and partnerships to deliver creative personalisation at scale.