Your Role: Head of Strategy & Development
As Head of Strategy & Development at Global, you’ll be at the heart of shaping Global’s future, providing strategic direction on growth opportunities across both Audio, Video and Outdoor. In this role, you’ll work closely with internal stakeholders, including the CEO, CFO, and CCO, as well as external advisors.
The work is largely project based, requiring the Head of Strategy & Development to manage their own time to ensure deadlines are met and that work is delivered to a consistently high standard.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy development & execution: Support Global’s Audio and Outdoor businesses with strategy development, analysis, and execution of strategic and operational initiatives.
Financial modelling: Construct business cases, build models and conduct analysis to assess organic growth opportunities.
Transaction support: Support the negotiation and structuring of joint ventures and M&A transactions should they arise.
Negotiation: Support negotiations on major supplier contracts such as transmission, music rights and Outdoor advertising landlords.
Market insight: Monitor and analyse economic and competitor activity to identify and prioritise growth opportunities and risks.
Executive-level presentation: Produce presentations and papers to communicate project findings to the Board and Senior Exec.
What You’ll Love About This Role
Think Big: Shape the future strategy of a leading and fast-growing UK media & entertainment business.
Own It: Manage projects across all Global departments, including: Audio, Video, digital, ad tech, Outdoor advertising (UK and Europe) and our sales organisation.
Keep it Simple: Structure complex problems and synthesise insights to enable critical board-level decisions.
Better Together: Collaborate with stakeholders across our Audio, Video and Outdoor businesses, including senior management.
What Success Looks Like
In your first few months, you’ll have:
Managed strategic projects across several departments.
Become a trusted advisor to key teams across Global.
Developed strategic insights that inform crucial decisions.
Built a deep knowledge of Global’s audiences, customers, services and markets.
What You’ll Need
Strategy toolkit: A broad strategy toolkit, including strategic thinking, project management, modelling and presentation skills, developed through working on strategic projects in a strategy consultancy and/or commercial organisation for 2-5 years.
Ownership: Proven ability to take end-to-end ownership of workstreams with a high level of independence, including leading analysis, managing stakeholders, and producing deliverables. Skilled at engaging senior leaders to secure input, guidance and alignment.
Media passion: The ability to demonstrate real passion for advertising, media, digital products, and the importance of data and personalisation.
Better Together: Collaborate with stakeholders across our Audio, Video and Outdoor businesses, including senior management.
High performance: A track record of exceeding expectations and delivering outstanding results. Exceptional attention to detail.
Problem-solving: Ability to structure and solve complex strategic problems and to create presentations that clearly explain the results.
Excel and quantitative skills: Strong excel and numerical skills with experience building financial models to evaluate organic growth opportunities and acquisitions.
Relationship building: Skilled at building relationships and influencing key stakeholders both internally and externally.
Leadership: Experience leading and coordinating cross-functional teams to deliver projects
Executive-level communication: Experience in synthesising insights, preparing and delivering succinct reporting and responses at Board level.
Organisational skills: Highly organised, with a structured and disciplined approach to manage and prioritise heavy workloads in a deadline-oriented role. The role will typically be working on multiple projects simultaneously, and the candidate will need to prioritise appropriately whilst making sure each project continues to progress.
Adaptability: The unpredictability of the role’s project-based requirements may result in unusual or longer hours being incurred on occasion, as well as travel from time to time.
Bias to action: The candidate needs to be proactive, rigorous and analytical with a hands-on and “sleeves rolled up” approach.
M&A (Preferred): Experience evaluating and executing M&A transactions preferred, but not a requirement.
Top Skills
What We Do
The UK and Europe’s largest Radio & Outdoor company, Global is home to respected, national market-leading media brands broadcasting across the UK on DAB & FM and around the world on Global Player, including Heart, Capital, LBC, Capital XTRA, Capital Dance, Classic FM, Smooth, Radio X and Gold.
Global Player allows listeners to enjoy all of Global’s radio brands, award-winning podcasts, and expertly curated playlists, in one place in app, on web and on smart speakers.
Global is also one of the leading Outdoor companies in both the UK & Europe, with over 253,000 sites reaching 95% of the UK population. Global’s extensive and diverse outdoor portfolio encompasses Transport for London’s Underground network, almost all major UK airports including Gatwick, the UK’s largest portfolio of roadside posters and premium digital screens in prime locations, as well as the UK’s largest network of buses including all major cities.
On-air, on Global Player and with our outdoor platforms combined, Global reaches 51 million individuals across the UK every week, including 26.3 million on the radio alone.
