Associate Director Strategy
Interbrand
Associate Director Strategy
Interbrand
Global branding consultancy shaping iconic brands
About Interbrand
Interbrand understands what it takes today to build the world’s most iconic brands.
To support our clients in an ever more complex and fascinating world, we have renewed our commitment to both common global standards and greater empowerment, experimentation and entrepreneurialism.
Interbrand is its people. We are a global team of highly diverse thinkers, makers and collaborators. We are proud of our heritage and often regarded as the university of branding. Over the past four decades, we have pioneered iconic work and invented many of the brand building tools that are now commonplace.
In collaboration with many of the world’s leading brands, we are pioneering the future of brand building. In a world where people’s expectations are moving faster than businesses, we give our clients the confidence to make Iconic Moves that create desire and utility, reshape the competitive landscape and drive extraordinary results.
The Interbrand Best Global Brands study/rankings are resources to our clients and the industry, providing proprietary data and insight for our role as client partner and commentator. We have published 18 books on brands and are often the reference point for university curriculum and professional associations. Today, through our own Academy, we aim to be the most impactful learning environment in the marketing world.
Our Behaviours
Our culture is informed by a set of behaviours we co-created as a business. Our behaviours give us space to experiment, permission to speak out, and a model of leadership that anyone in the business can adopt. Our behaviours are Lead with love, Be Brave, Listen First and Make it happen. We are proud of our behaviours. They make us, us.
Our Interbrand Madrid office is looking for an Associate Director Strategy to join the Strategy Team. The candidate will lead and develop client projects and team capabilities in areas directly related to Interbrand offering (Human Truths, Economics and Experience) as well as be a key contributor to team culture and overall quality helping grow and maintain key clients.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities:
Client work:
-Lead and contributes directly to structure, content and delivery of documents for internal or client use (diagnostic, repositioning, brand architecture, etc).
-Lead and moderate workshops (internal and external).
- Act as key reference for client (trusted advisor) to help grow the relationship with new opportunities identified
-Thought Leadership:
- Contribute to IB intellectual capital and reputation.
-Work periodically with strategy peers and across Group to share and extract relevant information from clients.
- Collaborate actively with the Head of Strategy to foster a positive culture and power knowledge sharing
Team/Management:
- Be able to lead a New Business presentation if New Business representative not available.
-Manage senior consultants, consultants or analysts (coordinating, coaching, reviewing).
- Lead the recruiting process: shortlist selection, interview and summary (enlisting and coordinating help from others when needed)
-Actively collaborate with group companies: C-Space, Rep Institute to improve Interbrand´s servicing to clients.
-Act as a reference for feedback from anyone in team (acts as informal mentorship for all).
-Define appropriate team for project with the validation from Head of Strategy and coordinates project deliveries alongside Client Service and Design representatives.
-Directly contribute to grow revenue streams (directly with New Business or otherwise).
Required Knowledge:
Personal and professional skills:
Does it sound like you belong with us? Apply today!
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Global branding consultancy shaping iconic brands
Interbrand is a global branding consultancy that helps clients build and manage iconic brands. Its work spans brand strategy, design, and measurement, delivering frameworks and tools that brands can use day-to-day to grow their presence in a complex market. The company combines a large, collaborating team with proprietary data and resources, such as the Best Global Brands study and brandchannel, to guide client decisions and industry analysis. It also runs an Academy to accelerate learning in marketing and branding. Compared with peers, Interbrand emphasizes its long history, established methodologies, and access to global rankings and proprietary data to inform brand-building decisions. Its goal is to help brands become world-famous and sustain that status through ongoing, data-driven brand management and education.
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