Vice President, Strategy

<p>Material is a leading integrated marketing services company that leverages deep human understanding to help brands deliver material outcomes and experiences for their customers and the communities they serve. We build B2C and B2B brands from the insight out by providing a seamless journey that combines data and analytics, insights-led consulting, and experience activation into one integrated offering.</p>

Los Angeles; New York; Chicago; Philadelphia; San

Material

<strong>Material is a collaborative built from legendary practices across research, strategy, design, and brand building. Eleven pioneering companies united as one to solve wider, deeper, and more innovative challenges together.</strong><br /><br /><strong>We uncover what&rsquo;s important to people and create experiences that pull them in and open our worlds. We seek curious, experienced, and deeply empathetic humans to enrich our diverse teams of leaders and do-ers. Want in?</strong><br /> <h5>LRW | Kelton | T3 | Karma | Greenberg | Tonic | MotiveQuest | Salt Branding | Killer Visual Strategies | Strativity | Aruliden</h5> https://materialplus.io/

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Full-Time

Overview: Material is currently seeking qualified candidates for the role of Vice President, Strategy. This role will oversee the integration of multiple marketing and transformation strategy offerings including brand, go-to-market, social, performance, customer experience, and digital. This role will also work very closely with leaders in our analytics, creative services, and media teams to ensure an effective, best-in-class cross-functional offering.<br /> <p><strong>About Us:</strong></p> <p>Material+ is an analytics-driven marketing services firm powered by sophisticated analytics and deep human understanding. Founded in 1973 and headquartered in LA, the company has grown consistently for nearly 50 years and currently has 1200 employees in 20 offices including NY, Chicago, San Francisco, Austin, and London. Material has actively acquired a portfolio of businesses to build a unique, integrated marketing services business with key capabilities in analytics, intelligence, and experience for an array of top-tier clients in entertainment, tech, retail, healthcare, and packaged goods.</p>
Responsibilities: <p><strong>Vice President, Strategy Responsibilities:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Manage and grow a cross-functional set of strategy disciplines with the aim of integrating them into a seamless set of subject matter experts able to engage client decision-makers at multiple levels.</li> <li>Develop and nurture client relationships at Director, Vice President, and C-level.</li> <li>Support and supervise data and research initiatives that can improve client knowledge of current customers and prospects.</li> <li>Provide a business case for a program development roadmap inclusive of people, processes, and tools needed to more effectively deliver client value across the funnel.</li> <li>Lead business development initiatives in coordination with creative, media, and growth teams with a goal of expanding integrated presence across existing accounts as well as pitching and winning net new business.</li> <li>Oversee team administration inclusive hiring, allocation, evaluation, and training.</li> <li>Actively participate in cross-agency service offering development as well as thought leadership creation.</li> </ul> <p>Strategy is core to everything we do so strong candidates will be evangelists and collaborators as much as they are insight and implication leaders.</p>
Requirements: Qualified candidates will have 15+ years of experience developing and delivering increasingly complex strategy functions with a track record of integrating multiple strategic functions into singular, business-building roadmaps. Experience in both agency and management consultancy environments is highly desirable.