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About the Role

Leo Burnett Toronto is seeking a Strategy Director to shape strategies that solve complex business challenges, inspire breakthrough creative work, and build enduring brands. This role is ideal for a design-minded strategic thinker with experience from a non-traditional agency, who can translate cultural, consumer, and business insights into clear creative opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of brand, communications, and experience strategies that address client objectives and inspire effective creative work, in the financial space.
• Bring together rigorous analysis and creative thinking to offer fresh, meaningful perspectives on complex challenges.
• Define and steward compelling brand ideas, grounded in a deep understanding of the business, its audiences, and the cultural environment.
• Simplify strategic complexity and create a clear path forward for clients and internal teams.
• Maintain a long-term perspective while identifying timely opportunities for brands to earn relevance.
• Deliver consistently thoughtful, high-quality strategic leadership across projects and client relationships.
• Build strong, trusted relationships with creative, account, design, and client teams.
• Develop clear, inspiring creative briefs and lead engaging briefings that unlock strong ideas.
• Act as both an idea generator and facilitator, helping teams explore possibilities and strengthen their thinking.
• Foster an environment that supports creative excellence and effective work across channels, platforms, and experiences.
• Communicate strategic logic in a way that leaves room for creative intuition and exploration.
• Lead the research process, selecting the qualitative and quantitative methods best suited to each assignment.
• Interpret research and data to uncover meaningful insights and fuel imagination.
• Stay closely attuned to cultural, consumer, category, and media shifts that affect how brands connect with people.
• Actively share knowledge and emerging perspectives to strengthen the strategic capabilities of the broader team.
• Serve as a trusted strategic partner whose perspective is valued and sought out by clients.
• Present complex thinking clearly, persuasively, and with confidence to audiences at all levels.
• Collaborate effectively across disciplines, building alignment among clients, strategists, creatives, designers, and account leaders.
• Contribute to a culture of courageous optimism, intellectual generosity, ambition, and continuous learning.
• Support the growth of strategy team members through collaboration, guidance, and constructive feedback.

Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant experience in an agency, consultancy, design, innovation, or related environment.
• Demonstrated experience developing brand, communications, or experience strategies.
• Experience partnering directly with senior clients and multidisciplinary teams.

Skills

• Strong strategic thinking, with the ability to translate complex business, brand, and audience challenges into clear opportunities.
• Strong knowledge of research methodologies and the ability to interpret qualitative and quantitative findings.
• Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• A collaborative, team-oriented working style and the ability to build trust across disciplines.
• A design-thinking mindset and a commitment to producing meaningful, original, and effective work.
• Intellectual curiosity, sound judgment, and the confidence to challenge conventional thinking constructively.
• Human intuition and curiosity.
• Objective, evidence-based point of view.
• Ability to simplify strategic complexity.
• Ability to maintain a long-term perspective.
• Ability to identify timely opportunities.
• Ability to foster an environment that supports creative excellence.
• Ability to communicate strategic logic.
• Ability to interpret research and data.
• Ability to stay attuned to cultural, consumer, category, and media shifts.
• Ability to present complex thinking clearly, persuasively, and with confidence.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across disciplines.
• Ability to contribute to a culture of courageous optimism, intellectual generosity, ambition, and continuous learning.
• Ability to support the growth of strategy team members.

Location

• Toronto

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 8+ years of relevant experience

Education Level

• Education in a relevant discipline or an equivalent combination of education and professional experience.

Salary/Compensations

• CAD $125,000 - $135,000 per year

About the Company

• We’re a creative consultancy. That means we put creativity at the center of all our thinking—be it strategic consulting, design and advertising or product and service design.
• If you believe in the power of creativity to transform how people think and behave, you’re in the right place.

Equal Opportunity

• Leo Burnett Toronto is an equal opportunity employer with a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion.
• Drawing on valuable perspectives and insights from our unique workforce allows us to continue sharing our best work with the world.
• We encourage applications from all qualified individuals and will provide appropriate accommodation for candidates with disabilities or accessibility needs throughout the recruitment process, upon request.
• Please contact our recruiter for any questions, accommodations or specific requests.