Head of Strategy

Responsibilities:

• Lead strategic development on all major accounts and new business pitches, from insight through to narrative architecture
• Build and manage a strategy team of two or more strategists, setting workflow, quality bar and development plans
• Translate commercial objectives, sector context and on-the-ground market reality into positioning that is authentic rather than aspirational
• Own the agency's point of view on major sector shifts in mining, energy, financial services, infrastructure and consumer markets across Africa and internationally
• Set and enforce strategic rigour across the agency: qualitative reasoning over templated frameworks, market-grounded arguments over lifestyle positioning
• Review and sharpen strategic documents produced by account teams before client delivery

Requirements:

• Demonstrable and tested experience in strategy, planning or a senior communications role with a strong strategic component, ideally split across agency and either financial services, energy or infrastructure
• Demonstrated ability to build positioning and narrative frameworks that survive contact with sophisticated, senior clients
• Experience managing or mentoring a team, with a clear point of view on how strategic thinking is taught and quality-controlled
• Comfort working across sectors: financial and investor communications, critical infrastructure, corporate reputation and consumer
• Strong research and synthesis instincts able to build an argument from real market conditions rather than borrowed frameworks
• Exceptional written and verbal communication, with the confidence to challenge senior stakeholders including the CEO

The Mindset:

• This role sets the tone for what the Agency sounds like when it thinks.
• You are the check against generic, AI-sounding, template-driven work, and the person who ensures every piece of strategy leaving the building could stand next to the best global agencies without apology.