Associate Director, Strategy

 Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Contributes to best-practice solutions for the overall strategic process at Barkley.
• Leads and participates in strategy development for clients and new business
• Responsible for generating the Red Thread, or the actionable strategic idea, in any brand engagement
• Contributes to best-practice solutions for the overall strategic process at Barkley, may begin to manage / mentor Strategists 
• Becomes an invaluable resource for clients in terms of overall strategic guidance
• Writes and presents micro and macro-level creative briefs for all initiatives
• Lead integrated idea teams in idea sessions and workshops
• Recommends and manages research that will aid in the consumer insight-gathering and strategic process
• Monitors and interprets cultural and social trends relevant to client business
• Presents insights/implications/opportunities in client and new business
• Finds creative, differentiating ways to gain insights, using known tools (qualitative and quantitative), as well as unique and new approaches

• Sample work will be requested in the interview process
• Exhibit high-level writing and presentation skills
• Must demonstrate deep experience in insight and research practices
• Excellent reasoning ability: Ability to define problems, collect information, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, and make creative leaps
• Bachelor’s degree is preferred
• 8+ years of direct work experience in the strategy field