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    Planning / Strategy Director - Manchester, United Kingdom - Havas Lynx Group

    Havas Lynx Group
    Havas Lynx Group Manchester, United Kingdom

    4 days ago

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    Full time
    Description

    What if your expertise could help someone, somewhere, to live a better life?

    Helping children living with juvenile idiopathic arthritis to communicate their pain, giving people with psoriasis their confidence back, shocking 2.3 million HCPs into taking action against second heart attacks to proving to the world that eczema isn't a skin condition.

    Havas Lynx Group is a creative communications agency dedicated to changing the way the world does healthcare communications for the better. We are committed to bringing about change. Change informed by experience, driven by innovation and proven in delivery. We work alongside healthcare professionals, patients, carers, and pharmaceutical brands to overcome the complex challenges of modern healthcare. Our work blends strategic insight and deep scientific understanding with creativity and digital innovation, delivering healthcare campaigns and solutions that really make a difference to people's lives.

    Everything this company achieves, every life it saves, every penny it makes, every policy it changes, every award it wins, is down to everyone that works here.

    Our Role

    As Planning Director, you will play a fundamental role in the success of your agency. Leading the strategic offering, you will add outstanding value to every project you are involved in whilst guiding and inspiring excellence in the output of your entire team. You will work closely with Client Services, Medical, Strategy and Creative, providing strategic stewardship to all projects. You will build strong client relationships and proactively identifying opportunities to drive new business activity.

    You will be a mentor to the strategists and planners within your team, helping them to reach their potential, whilst working closely with the community of strategy leads across the business to enhance the broader offering of Havas Lynx Group

    What you can expect to be doing:

  • Demonstrate consistent brand building and business growth expertise
  • Supporting Havas Lynx Group in driving best practice in strategy as well as thought leadership activities
  • Fluid knowledge and practice in business, marketing, and brand strategy, brand identity and architecture, campaign planning, and innovation
  • Proven track record in both producing effective brand activities and being recognised for these activities in effectiveness awards
  • Help the clients understand and implement the brand vision and purpose
  • Ensure that your expertise and inputs are sought and valued across the client team
  • Take ownership of the development of your team, actively readying them for roles of greater responsibility
  • Champion and contribute to the goals of Havas Lynx Group
  • What we'd like to see from you:

  • Proven experience leading and developing a team of strategists, delivering work of outstanding creativity and effectiveness
  • Strong team leadership skills with the ability to develop talent, including talent mapping
  • Positively influencing the culture of your wider agency
  • Building effective partnerships with clients
  • What you can expect from us

    A supportive and challenging environment in which you will have the opportunity to learn, grow, and make an impact that matters. We put a huge investment into #LYNXLife and our #LXAcademy internal programmes. It's a unique initiative that aims to reward hard work, reduce pressures, and ensure that we can all enjoy our time at Lynx. Our strategy is to build capabilities internally and inspire the best talent, so we can continue to deliver on our mission.

    You can also expect a whole host of benefits, including:

  • Hybrid Working
  • Starting holiday allowance of 28 days annual leave + Bank Holidays, with increasing allowance connected to length of service
  • Option to buy, carry or sell holidays
  • Early Friday finish throughout the year
  • Seasonal working hours
  • Enhanced family leave, pay and return to work benefit scheme
  • Extensive L&D support
  • Sabbatical opportunities
  • Season ticket interest free loans for travel
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Life insurance (4x salary)
  • Company pension scheme
  • Fully compensated company events
  • Volunteer days
  • Wellbeing programme including sports clubs, discounted gym memberships, free onsite flu vaccinations, extended lunch breaks on Wellness Wednesdays and much more
  • +Medicash healthcare benefit
  • 24/7 access to a free, confidential and independent Employee Assistance Programme
  • Workplace nursery benefit


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