Director, Strategic Planning

Director, Strategy

Chicago

About the Opportunity

Current Global is looking for someone who will see business problems from the eyes of real people, using data, observation, cultural perspective and experience to create strategies that will benefit a client’s brand and business by connecting with audiences and delivering measurable value.

About You

You are a culture maven with experience building brand and creative strategies that deliver ideas across channels, tactics, and content. You possess the innate ability to guide measurement that is aligned with strategy. Passionate about the way people experience the world and the trends that are shaping conversation, you thrive as an active counselor across client teams as well as being a major contributor to new business opportunities.

Your Skills

• Deliver Effective and Inspiring Strategic Output: Including briefs, strategic narratives and POVs.
• Help Foster a Culture of Insight and Innovation: Ensuring the practice is embedded into our client delivery and that the broader agency is educated on brand and communication strategy fundamentals.
• Collaborate with Strategy and Client Experience Leads: To serve as a trusted client counselor and advisor, providing consistent thought leadership.
• Partner with Our Powerhouse Creative Discipline to translate strategic briefs into compelling creative ideas.
• Collaborate with the Integrated Media Community: To ensure seamless integration of strategic plans across various communications channels, tactics, and content types.
• Support in New Business Development Process: By supporting the development of pitch strategies, delivering impactful presentations, and demonstrating the agency’s strategic capabilities.
• Support and Pursue: The methods by which teams uncover insights and measure results, consistently challenging the status quo and inspiring teams to explore new approaches to problem-solving.
• Serve as an Opinion Leader: By sharing best practices, case studies and thought leadership.

Minimum Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in strategic planning, brand development, and/or communication strategy, preferably within a public relations agency or related industry.
• Knowledgeable about the PR industry, including earned media, social media, and influencer engagement.
• Exceptional ability to translate complex data and consumer insights into actionable strategies that unlock creative ideas designed to earn attention and connect with target audiences.
• Adept at challenging conventional thought and providing a neutral, objective point of view to drive effective decision-making.
• Persuasive presenter and speaker, able to tell a story based on data and hypothesis.
• Demonstrated leadership skills; experience managing and mentoring direct reports.

About Current Global

Current Global is a human-centered creative communications agency. That is marketing mumbo jumbo for: we eat, play, and dream in culture, so we can help brands stay ahead of the trends to forge deeper and more authentic connections with their consumers.

Our portfolio of iconic brands is a creative person’s dream, offering endless opportunities to work across a wide range of assignments and sectors. The diversity of our client roster reflects our inclusive team structure and collaborative process. We believe the most powerful creative ideas are sparked by bringing together people with different perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences.

At Current Global, the best ideas come from a diverse mix of minds, backgrounds, and experiences—a fusion of creatives, strategists, media and marketing specialists, and client experience experts, all working together to deliver highly effective, award-winning work. This winning formula has earned us 41 Cannes Lions, along with numerous other accolades, including Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas in 2021 and 2024, and recognition in The Valuable 500 in 2023.

Current Global is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Current recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, or citizenship status.

Chicago Salary Range: $100,000 - $125,000

Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

Current Global recognizes that your health and wellbeing are a priority. We offer a full suite of benefits including medical; dental; vision; 401k (with employer match); tuition reimbursement; $60 monthly reimbursement to be used towards nourishing your health; flexible time off policy; flexible holiday schedules; short-term disability; paid employee family leave; family building benefit.

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