Havas Media Singapore looking for a Strategy Director, Media to support our teams on developing and delivering market leading strategies for clients.
About Havas
Founded in 1835 in Paris, France, Havas is one of the world’s largest communications groups. At Havas, we believe that companies have a key role to play in solving the biggest challenges our world faces today – and every day we strive to operate responsibly for ourselves and our stakeholders. We operate under the vision and mission to make a meaningful difference to brands, businesses, and people.
We employ 20,000 people in more than 100 countries, adopting a fully integrated model through our 60+ Havas Villages around the world – the Havas Village offers a truly unique proposition, where cross discipline teams work together, ensuring agility and a seamless experience for our clients.
About Havas Singapore
Within our Singapore Village is a network of business units including Havas Media, Arena Media, Socialyse, Red Havas, and BLKJ Havas, offering services across media, social, PR, and creative. Since 2015, we’ve had an unbroken streak of Agency of the Year (AOTY) wins across disciplines, including Integrated Marketing AOTY, Media AOTY, Specialist AOTY, and PR AOTY.
We are also committed to building a diverse culture where our people can grow, thrive, and feel that they belong. In 2023, we won Best Agency Culture (Gold) at Marketing Interactive’s Agency of the Year Awards, and are a Great Place To Work® Certified™ agency.
Responsibilities
- Work together with business teams and clients to establish their business & communications objectives; align closely with team and collaborate in developing end-to-end strategy-led comms solutions
- Lead media strategies for new business pitches
- Analyse existing data, market reports and trends to generate compelling strategic insights as the basis for media strategies
- Collaborate closely with research, data analytics and media to develop, manage and analyse key projects
- Develop and lead workshops, both internal & with clients
- Help create an environment of quality strategic thinking across the entire agency
- Contribute to the development of award winning work
- Represent the agency in thought leadership papers or events
- Drive best practice on strategic planning across different teams
- Develop & train planning tools and process of planning within Mx framework (Havas planning framework)
- Improve capabilities to spot & showcase award winning work
Skills & Requirements
- Relevant degree in marketing, communications, or other relevant disciplines; or relevant work experience in media/branding/consultancy
- Background – Media strategy, digital strategy, communications planning, new business/consulting ideally with media agency experience, min. 8-10 years
- Strong understanding of tech platforms and how we can use data from these platforms for insights
- Experience delivering actionable strategies; good storytelling in verbal and written form, especially presenting to senior stakeholders
- Strong leadership qualities, attention to detail and delivery to deadlines
- General interest in wide spectrum of topics and media trends
- Must be confident and approachable, helpful and easy to work with
- Proficient in Microsoft Office
Additional Qualities
- Pro-active, responsible, accountable and a team-player
- Analytical, meticulous, great attention to detail, and delivery-oriented with a focus on quality of results
- Persuasive and effective storyteller/communicator; Strong communication (verbal, written and presentation) and interpersonal skills
*Kindly note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.*
Here at Havas across the group we pride ourselves on being committed to offering equal opportunities to all potential employees and have zero tolerance for discrimination. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants irrespective of age, sex, race, ethnicity, disability and other factors that have no bearing on an individual's ability to perform their job.
