Strategy Director

Role Overview

• As Strategy Director, you will form the strategic backbone across some of GAIN’s newest and most commercially significant client relationships.
• Working in lockstep with the Business Director, you will define the strategic vision across owned and earned media, ensuring our clients brand, performance, and investment decisions reinforce one another to drive business outcomes.
• You will be the senior strategic partner, responsible for shaping holistic strategies that maximise visibility, efficiency and growth, balancing long-term brand building with near-term performance delivery.
• Internally, you will be the strategic integrator across SEO, Digital PR, PPC and Paid Media, ensuring all specialists are aligned behind one coherent direction of travel.
• You will play a critical role in embedding strategic clarity, elevating thinking, and ensuring all work ladders to the client’s targets, KPIs and long-term ambitions.

Requirements

• 10–12+ years’ experience in a digital, performance or integrated agency environment, with a proven track record in senior strategic roles shaping complex multi‑channel programmes
• Deep expertise across owned and earned channels (SEO, content, digital PR, PPC, paid media), with experience guiding or collaborating with subject matter experts to build unified strategies
• Demonstrable experience setting holistic digital strategies for large or complex clients, ensuring cross channel integration, clear KPIs and measurable commercial outcomes
• Highly analytical and insight driven, with the ability to translate data, audience behaviour, and market intelligence into actionable strategic frameworks and test and learn agendas
• Strong facilitation and orchestration skills, adept at aligning specialist leads behind a shared vision, ensuring cohesion rather than silos
• Exceptional communication and storytelling abilities, able to simplify complexity, inspire senior stakeholders, and articulate a clear strategic path forward
• Confident and credible with senior clients, operating as a trusted advisor invested in helping them achieve ambitious growth and maturity objectives
• Calm, solutions oriented and decisive, able to balance long-term brand building with short-term performance needs in fast-moving environments
• Passionate about performance, brand building and integrated strategy, with a strong curiosity about emerging channels, measurement evolution and consumer behaviour
• Collaborative leadership style, committed to empowering specialists, raising the quality of strategic thinking and fostering an environment of continuous improvement

Benefits

• Private Medical Insurance
• Life Assurance
• Income protection
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to Work salary sacrifice scheme
• Tech & Wearables salary sacrifice scheme
• Octopus EV Scheme
• Discounts and deals on a range of items from hotels, holidays and hormone testing to cinema, gyms and will writing