Global Strategy & Planning Director (2 month FTC)

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**Location:**Open to location **-** Remote candidates are welcome provided they operate on UAE working hours. At Havas, we believe desirable brands create desirable results. Desire is the force that makes brands noticed, chosen, and shared. It powers creativity, shapes culture, and drives business outcomes. Through Converged.AI, our operating system that unites creativity, media, data and technology, we help brands grow with intelligence and purpose.This role sits at the centre of that ambition, on one of the world’s most recognised brands.**The Role** As Global Strategy Director, you are the strategic authority across all markets. Your primary mandate is consistency: ensuring that every strategy developed globally is coherent, evidence-based, and built to the highest standard of thinking. This is a large, integrated account with market-level strategists, planners, and central global planning leads already in place. Your role is not to carry the work alone. It is to connect it, elevate it, and hold it to a common standard. You provide direction, create the conditions for strong thinking, and make sure what gets to the client reflects a single, coherent strategic voice.- The scope of this account is significant — success depends on this person’s ability to lead through others, not despite them.**The Experience We’re Looking For*** Minimum 10 years of experience in media strategy, media planning, or a combined strategy and insights role within a media or integrated agency environment.* Candidates from a pure insights or brand strategy background will not be the right fit for this role.* Demonstrated experience managing global accounts or multi-market structures at a senior level.* Proven command of media planning principles across channels, from brand-building formats to performance and conversion media.* Fluency with syndicated tools such as GWI, YouGov, Statex, or equivalent.* Working familiarity with measurement methodologies including MMM and attribution.* A track record of leading senior client conversations and presenting strategy with conviction.**Skills for Success** Founded in 1835 by Charles-Louis Havas, Havas is one of the world’s largest global communications groups, with more than 23,000 people in over 100 countries sharing one single mission: to make a meaningful difference to brands, businesses, and people. Havas has developed a fully integrated model covering all communications activities. The teams of the three business units, Creative, Media and Health & You, work together with agility and in perfect synergy to offer clients tailor-made, meaningful, innovative and entertainment-oriented solutions that support them in their positive transformation. **Life at Havas**We take great pride in our Havas family. They bring many unique personalities, perspectives and passions to their work. Collaboration is at the core of how we operate, and Havas Villages are the homes we work in. We encourage our people to take advantage of our many opportunities to learn and grow. Through local agency training sessions, our unique global and development programs, we offer our people endless opportunities to explore. **Havas Creative Network**At Havas, we believe creativity isn’t just a description of our business, it is part of our agencies’ DNA. We bring together some of the industry’s most creative and accomplished agencies. By combining creative expertise with the strategic and innovative power of our Villages, we can build seamless teams around the individual needs of each of our clients. **Havas Media Network**We create the best media experience, capitalizing on the most meaningful media to build more meaningful brands. We know how to connect a client with their target audience – in the context of where they are, through the content they pay attention to. We deliver this expertise through the Mx System, our global operating methodology and strategic planning process, that creates value for our clients by turning consumer intelligence into clear growth targets, aligning stakeholders and KPIs, and measuring the impact of media experiences. **Havas Health**Driven by human purpose and focused on the betterment of humanity through health, Havas Health & You leverages a global collection of experts and individuals to help people everywhere live healthier lives. With a spirit rooted in innovation, creativity, and education, we are dedicated to delivering consistent excellence and groundbreaking work. #J-18808-Ljbffr
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Location:
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Salary:
£150,000 - £200,000
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
Marketing & Media, Management & Operations

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