Senior Strategy Consulting Director

Are you an inspirational leader driven by a passion for transforming customer experiences and marketing strategies? Join our Customer & Business Strategy team to not only spearhead the design and delivery of innovative solutions for global brands but also to build, motivate, and empower high-performing teams. This is an opportunity to leave a lasting impact, both on our clients and on the incredible talent you will lead. 

What will your day look like?

As a Senior Strategy Consulting Director, you will lead with vision and empathy, fostering an environment where innovation thrives and talent excels. 

Client Delivery  

• Inspire and Lead Client Engagements: Galvanize cross-functional teams to lead multiple complex client engagements, fostering a culture of excellence to ensure profound strategic impact, robust profitability, and unparalleled client satisfaction. 

• Strategic & Inspirational Partnership: Act as a strategic business partner to clients and their teams, providing visionary thought leadership across customer experience and marketing transformation, while inspiring confidence and driving collaborative success. 

• Empowerment & Stakeholder Mastery: Expertly navigate and manage complex stakeholder relationships across global, matrixed environments within VML / WPP, empowering your teams to achieve seamless collaboration and delivery. 

• Excellence in Delivery: Champion the highest quality of deliverables, instilling a commitment to measurable business value and inspiring teams to exceed expectations. 

Capability Development  

• Cultivate and Elevate the Capability: Provide visionary leadership in shaping and evolving the Customer & Business Strategy team’s core offerings, with a relentless focus on CX strategy, CRM, loyalty, and digital innovation, ensuring the team remains at the forefront of the industry. 

• Foster Innovation & Growth: Inspire and drive innovation in delivery methodologies, including the adoption of AI and agentic operating model design, empowering your team to explore new frontiers and deliver cutting-edge solutions. 

• Nurture & Develop Talent: A primary focus on being an inspirational mentor and dedicated coach to our consulting talent. You will actively guide career growth, conduct impactful performance reviews, facilitate meaningful goal setting, and champion continuous learning and skill development within your team. 

• Shape Our Culture: Play a pivotal role in contributing to the strategic direction, fostering an inclusive, high-performance, and supportive culture within the practice, where every team member feels valued and empowered to excel. 

Business Development  

• Lead & Inspire Business Growth: Take decisive leadership in major new business pursuits, inspiring your team to collaboratively convert opportunities into profitable and impactful engagements. 

• Strategic Client Expansion: Develop and execute visionary client relationship strategies, empowering your team to proactively grow VML MAP’s footprint and deepen client partnerships. 

• Orchestrate Partnerships: Proactively identify, cultivate, and manage strategic partnerships across technology and service ecosystems, leveraging your team's collective strengths. 

• Drive Team Success: Inspire the team to achieve ambitious revenue targets and strategically expand the client portfolio, fostering a shared sense of ownership and success. 

Who are you going to work with?

You will be a pivotal and inspirational leader within our dynamic Customer & Business Strategy capability, reporting to the Capability Lead. In this highly collaborative role, you'll not only guide global brands, client teams, and internal stakeholders across VML / WPP through complex customer experience and marketing transformations, but you'll also serve as a foundational mentor. Your leadership will be instrumental in nurturing and developing our consulting talent, shaping our cutting-edge offerings, and continuously driving a culture of innovation and excellence. 

What do you bring to the table?

• Proven Leadership & Consulting Experience: Extensive and proven experience in a Big 4 consultancy, leading strategy firm, or top-tier marketing agency, with a track record of building and nurturing high-performing teams. 

• Transformational Impact: Demonstrated success in leading, inspiring, and delivering complex customer experience and marketing transformation programs through effective team leadership. 

• Platform Acumen: Familiarity with leading platforms such as Salesforce, Adobe Experience Cloud, Braze, Google Marketing Platform, and the vision to guide teams in their optimal utilization. 

• Strategic Commercial Insight: Exceptional commercial acumen, with the ability to inspire teams to link strategic initiatives directly to measurable business value. 

• Inspirational Leadership & Communication: Outstanding communication, visionary leadership, and exemplary stakeholder management skills, with a proven ability to coach, mentor, and motivate teams to achieve collective success. 

A leader in personalized customer experiences

VML MAP is a world-leading Centre of Excellence that helps businesses humanize the relationship between the brand and the customer through hyper personalization at scale, marketing automation and CRM. With the brain of a consultancy, the heart of an agency and the power of technology and data, we work with some of the world's most admired brands to help them on their transformation journey to becoming truly customer-centric. Together, we are 1000 + technology specialists, data scientists, strategic thinkers, consultants, operations experts, and creative minds from 55+ nationalities.

A global network

We are part of the global VML network that encompasses more than 30,000 employees across 150+ offices in 60+ markets, each contributing to a culture that values connection, belonging, and the power of differences. 

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