Wavemaker Chief Strategy Officer

**Job Title**:Chief Strategy Officer, Asia-Pacific**

**Reporting to**:Chief Executive Officer, Asia Pacific**

**Location**:Singapore**

**Brief role description**:
As Chief Strategy Officer Asia Pacific, you will be tasked with driving the product and profile of the agency. Ensuring that Wavemaker Asia Pacific delivers best-in-class strategic plans that push the boundaries, which will require you to win the trust of senior clients, while raising the capabilities of the planning teams across all categories. Likewise, by elevating the team’s strategic capabilities and winning the trust of senior clients, you will in turn drive Wavemaker’s profile across the industry.

In addition, this role sits on the Wavemaker Asia Pacific Executive Committee and will be a key voice in leading the continuing organizational evolution of the company, putting client’s growth at its very heart. This requires a progressive, outward facing presence and mindset.

**3 best things about the job**:

- ** Opportunity to work with local, regional, and global teams** in driving innovation and thought-leadership for our clients. You will be leading the community of Strategists across the Asia Pacific markets.
- **Driving the client’s growth** - be the agent of change that will transform both client and agency teams in reaching ambitious goals in growth; which also propels you to be at the forefront of the latest digital technologies and marketing platforms
- ** Empowerment and support** - you will chart your own agenda and strategies to best serve client needs while being fully supported by the Wavemaker Exco.

**About Wavemaker**

We always believe there is a better way to grow our client 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

**Core Responsibilities**:

- Maintain an in-depth knowledge of client businesses and ensure integrated and digital strategies align with brands business objectives and needs.
- Partner with the CEO to develop the credible Wavemaker strategic story for new business presentations, with particular emphasis on telling a simple, differentiated story.
- Use global best practices, cases and learnings, define the strategic standard for ‘What Great looks like’ and align with APAC exco management. To then develop a learning plan to cascade and train all key strategists across the APAC region.
- Grow team’s strategic capabilities and develop sound long term strategic plans for all the key brands.
- Leverage data (digital and otherwise) for the benefit of overall integrated planning
- Be bold; defend and stand your ground in terms of ideas internally and externally.
- Collaborate with core planning teams to ensure optimal integration of solutions in the overall brand plans, ensuring deployment of best-in-class digital implementation across brands. Trusted advisor not just to the client, but for internal touch-points in the local market.
- Experience building successful relationships with C-level executives, particularly CMOs, in matters of strategic substance
- Proven ability to transform business performance and client/customer relationships
- Deep marketing expertise, with focus in the areas of technology, data, digital, CRM or media. Brand-building experience is a plus, but data-driven marketing experience should be the main driver
- An ability to work well and collaboratively with senior peers and other WPP stakeholders
- A natural Storyteller—a highly articulate and persuasive writer and speaker (samples of presentations are required.)
- Demonstrable ability to simplify/ synthesize complex data from a variety of sources and then communicate solutions in a simply fresh perspective. (Give ‘meaning’ to the complex—sees patterns that others don’t yet see.)
- Digitally comfortable—The CSO should be fully versed on the strategic roles of interactive/ digital as well as familiar with predicted evolutions.
- Proven track record as a ‘team player’ —this position requires high amounts of actionable collaboration and ability to coach and inspire. (This is not for the academic or lone-ranger.)
- Ability to challenge conventional thinking** **but in a constructive way.

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