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About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Strategy Director to lead, manage, and deliver strategic projects, translating client priorities and insights into brand opportunities. You will take the strategic lead on high-profile accounts, manage senior client relationships, and represent JKR's thinking at the highest level.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and deliver strategic projects.
• Translate client business and brand priorities, cultural and category insights into brand opportunities.
• Support creative development through interdepartmental collaboration.
• Inspire creative and design teams as the voice of the consumer.
• Ensure work is strategically aligned.
• Build close relationships with client teams.
• Represent JKR's thinking at the most senior level.
• Run senior client relationships independently.

Requirements

• 8+ years of brand strategy experience.
• At least 2 years operating at Strategy Director level or equivalent scope.
• Background in a branding, design, or creative agency environment with brand and design strategy as core discipline.
• Demonstrable FMCG/CPG category experience, ideally including food, beverage, or snacking brands.
• Portfolio of work spanning global markets and senior client stakeholders.
• Strong working knowledge of how branding and design strategy can solve business challenges.
• Strong working knowledge of how brands can activate across all touchpoints.
• Exceptional narrative-writing skills, able to distill complex information into clear, compelling stories.
• Skilled at writing simple, clear, and inspirational briefs for creative and design.
• Confident and influential presenter, comfortable delivering pitches and client presentations.
• Strong project management and organisational skills, with an eye for detail.
• Available to commit to a 12-month fixed-term contract starting September 2026.

Skills

• Brand strategy
• Design strategy
• FMCG/CPG category experience
• Narrative writing
• Brief writing
• Client presentations
• Project management
• Organisational skills

Location

• London

Work Type

• 12-month fixed-term contract
• Hybrid working policy, minimum 2 days per week in the London studio
• 2 weeks work from anywhere, by agreement with line manager

Experience Level

• Strategy Director level or equivalent scope

Salary/Compensations

• Competitive salary

Benefits

• Bupa Healthcare, including dental option
• Income protection & life insurance
• Classpass credits
• Group personal pension
• 25 days holiday + time given at Christmas and New Year
• Summer Fridays x 2
• Birthday day off
• Season ticket loan
• Cycle to work scheme
• Enhanced parental leave policies
• Referral scheme for new hires

About the Company

• Jones Knowles Ritchie is a branding business, founded in 1990 and proudly independent.
• We build and deliver brands across the entire consumer experience.
• Our mission is to inspire brands and people to be their true selves, to be brave, tenacious, and authentic.
• At JKR, strategy exists to unlock creativity.
• We make brands distinctive everywhere, and our strategy team works hand in hand with design to find what makes a brand unmistakably itself, then bring it to life across every touchpoint.
• Strategists at JKR sit at the heart of how work gets made: shaping the thinking, inspiring the creative, and leading clients through it.

Equal Opportunity

• We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression.