Apac Strategy Partner

7 days ago


Singapore GROUPM ASIA PACIFIC HOLDINGS PTE. LTD. Full time

**Reporting of the role**:
This role reports to: APAC Chief Growth Officer

**What You’ll Do as Strategy Partner**:

- You are the steward of the strategic process of major brands. / An ambassador for strategic excellence within your client team(s)/.. _
- Lead the day to day strategy & communication planning for leading CPG & Financial Services accounts, working directly with senior clients
- Partner closely with the APAC client leads, as well as the APAC Chief Client Officer, to ensure delivery of regional strategies and to support key markets, particularly during annual plans
- Be an ambassador for Fearless Growth in the development of award-winning work for existing and new business
- Lead Wavemaker’s Provocative Planning and develop a plan for improving strategic capability amongst the strategy team and agency, especially supporting heads of strategy in APAC markets
- Distill the core business issues from multiple verticals, and empower strategists to discover the media, communications, and technology solutions that will unlock growth
- Inspire creativity and innovation through engaging workshops, captivating creative briefs, and thought leading POVs on industry trends
- Steward relationships with other agency partners, including creative, digital, shopper and PR

**About you**:
**As a Strategy Partner**:

- Determined to instill your passion for advertising, consumer behavior, and strategy into the agency
- Easily engages and inspires others to consider new ways of thinking
- Expert in identifying the true problem in brief and naturally has ideas and strategies on how to solve them and grow our client’s business
- To the point and unambiguous in their communication to help others easily understand new concepts.
- Seeks alternative thoughts and perspectives, is flexible in approaching challenges and problems; desires new ways of doing things.
- Understands how their strategy impacts other teams and agencies, and can be diplomatic to get the job sold
- Prioritizes data led approaches to analyzing and solving problems

**What Background we have in mind for this position**:

- Strong experience (12+ years) with international or local agencies or companies with specific degree of knowledge in the field of marketing communication strategy
- Experience working in strategy, ideally leading a market strategy team in an APAC market
- Deep experience of marketing and consumer marketing activities, including the laws of growth
- Deep knowledge of business, marketing and communication metrics
- Able to understand what marketing objectives means and how it can be deployed and translated into communication and media activities
- The capability to capture insights from observations or trends in society and marketing translating them into strategies
- Be used to working with 3rd agencies such as research, creative or digital agencies
- Be a trusted advisor to senior clients

**Personal Characteristics**:

- A ‘can-do’ attitude, entrepreneurial spirit
- Leadership skills, including effective client management & delivery
- Effective capability to work as an individual contributor
- Taking responsibility within the team, as a key trusted client partner
- Management capabilities to help other people to growth and develop their capabilities
- Strong communication skills: written and oral. Must be able to build and communicate a vision with clients and external presentations
- Self-motivating personality, resilient and stress resistant
- Fluent in English and other languagues

**Additional competencies that will be positively valued**:

- Inspiring Trust
- Analytic approach and test and learn culture
- Power user of Office package

**About Wavemaker**

We always believe there is a better way to grow our clients and our people. We do this by positively provoking growth for our clients and people. We work with clients to help them grow and shape their consumers’ brand decisions and experiences through media, content, and technology.

We have one single attitude - Positive Provocation.

Our name is our mission and our method. To make waves, you need to be provocative, even fearless. We always make sure we have each other’s backs through our inclusive culture. We do our best work for brave brands and people who want to be challenged to go further and faster. We know it’s not easy, but if it’s in you, we will get it out of you.

Our attitude of Positive Provocation is enabled by:

- The deep **Knowledge **we have of our clients’ business
- The confidence to **Challenge **what’s gone before
- The **Support **to go further than we thought possible

**About GroupM**

GroupM Singapore operates in one of the most dynamic and exciting environments in the world. Although it is a small domestic market, there is a vibrant media industry which is undergoing rapid evolution as digital technology reshapes the way marketing supports advertisers’ needs. Being at the crossroads of Asia means, that aside from the local cl



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