Group Strategy Director

What You'll Do

• Lead strategy across a multi-client portfolio: oversee strategic direction for multiple healthcare and biotech accounts simultaneously, ensuring consistent quality, rigor, and impact.
• Shape brands and businesses: define positioning, purpose, and value propositions that help clients stand apart in complex categories.
• Grow and develop the strategy team: mentor and manage junior and mid-level strategists, fostering their professional growth and elevating the overall quality of the practice.
• Clarify the complicated: distill clinical, behavioral, and competitive data into sharp, simple strategic stories that guide creative work.
• Bridge disciplines: partner with account, creative, and medical strategy to connect brand thinking to activation, channel, and experience—across multiple concurrent engagements.
• Inspire creativity: translate insights into powerful briefs and frameworks that fuel great ideas—and elevate them through thoughtful feedback.
• Facilitate and guide: lead workshops, co-creation sessions, and client conversations that build belief and alignment.
• Champion excellence: uphold strategic and creative rigor across every deliverable, from foundational brand frameworks to launch campaigns.
• Be a trusted partner: build strong, collaborative relationships with clients at the most senior levels, able to challenge thinking constructively and inspire confidence.

What You'll Bring

• 12+ years of experience in brand, communications, or engagement strategy within an agency or consultancy.
• Proven track record managing strategy across a portfolio of clients, with the ability to prioritize and deliver excellence at scale.
• Experience managing, mentoring, or developing strategists; a genuine commitment to building team capability.
• Proven ability to define and articulate brand narratives, frameworks, and creative strategies that drive impact.
• Strong storytelling and presentation skills; able to translate complex insights into compelling, actionable ideas for senior client stakeholders.
• Experience leading workshops and client work sessions that foster alignment and shared ownership.
• Fluency in frameworks and tools (e.g., Brand Diamond, 4Cs, OGSM, journey maps) and comfort applying them across categories.
• Experience bridging strategy and creative execution, partnering cross-functionally to bring ideas to life.
• Background in healthcare, biotech, or life sciences; oncology or rare disease experience a plus.
• Familiarity with regulatory environments and experience working within MLR processes a bonus.
• Collaborative, curious, and pragmatic with a balance of big-picture vision and hands-on execution.
• Ownership without ego. You're energized by bringing clarity to complex challenges and inspiring others to do their best work.