About tmp
tmp helps B2B marketing leaders create coherence in a chaotic world. We’re looking for obsessively curious people to join us. We have a team of 300 B2B experts across strategy, data, creative, media, client services, sales activation, and shared services, working in integrated teams centred around our clients – the world’s most impactful tech companies.
What we are looking for
We’re looking for a Strategy Director to lead strategic thinking and delivery across key B2B client accounts during a 10‑month maternity cover (June 2026 – April 2027). This role brings clarity, direction, and ambition to complex client challenges, shaping impactful marketing strategies that drive measurable growth.
What you will do
* Translate complex business challenges into clear, compelling, and actionable marketing strategies.
* Set the direction for client engagements, ensuring every piece of work aligns with meaningful commercial outcomes.
* Challenge client briefs constructively, pushing for sharper thinking and stronger solutions.
* Build senior relationships with marketing, sales, and product stakeholders, earning trust through insight and impact.
* Guide clients on where to focus, when to pivot, and how to unlock greater value from marketing.
* Lead high‑impact workshops and strategic conversations that align stakeholders and inspire action.
* Lead strategy across ABM programmes and broader brand/positioning projects.
* Ensure all strategic outputs are clear, insight‑driven, and meet a consistent standard of excellence.
* Use data, insights, and emerging tools (including AI) to enhance strategic thinking and outputs.
* Turn human insights into strategic direction that sparks powerful, resonant creative work.
* Partner with creative, media, data, and delivery teams to ensure strategy translates into impactful execution.
* Develop clear, inspiring creative briefs that enable bold, distinctive, and effective ideas.
* Champion integration across channels, disciplines, and markets to deliver cohesive programmes.
* Provide clear direction and guardrails that empower teams to deliver their best work.
* Identify opportunities to grow accounts through stronger strategy, new opportunities, and expanded scopes.
* Contribute to new business and RFP responses where relevant.
* Help clients see the value of strategic investment and its role in driving growth.
Requirements
* A sharp, commercially minded strategist who can connect big‑picture thinking with practical action.
* Naturally curious, always looking to challenge assumptions and push thinking further.
* A confident communicator who can influence senior stakeholders with clarity and credibility.
* Consultative in approach, comfortable challenging clients and guiding them toward better outcomes.
* Collaborative and energized by working across disciplines to make great ideas happen.
* Able to bridge strategy and creativity; crafting briefs and insights that spark powerful ideas and resonate on a human, emotional level.
* Adaptable and comfortable navigating ambiguity, bringing structure and clarity where it’s needed most.
* Proactive in exploring how AI and new tools can elevate strategy and ways of working.
* Strong experience in B2B marketing strategy, ideally within an agency environment.
* Proven ability to lead both ABM programs and broader brand/positioning projects.
* Experience working with senior client stakeholders (up to CMO level) and acting as a strategic advisor.
* Track record of developing strategies that deliver measurable commercial impact.
* Confidence working across multiple clients and managing competing priorities.
* Familiarity with using AI tools to support, enhance, or accelerate strategic work.
Additional Role Details
* Contract: 10‑month maternity cover
* Timing: Mid‑June 2026 – Mid‑April 2027
* Location: London‑based
* Travel: Approximately once per month to London
Benefits
* Generous holiday allowance (plentiful PTO)
* Shutdown between Christmas and New Year
* Private healthcare and dental insurance
* Group income protection
* Salary sacrifice pension scheme
* Access to well‑being coaching or counselling sessions once a week
* Financial health support
* Parental leave – 12 weeks full pay for primary carers and additional 50 % pay for 12 more weeks
* Portal with discounts and cashback at a variety of retailers; cycle‑to‑work scheme available
* Sustainable future giving – support for planting trees, tracking impact, and reducing emissions
We Are Committed to Diversity and Inclusion
We encourage applications from all backgrounds and provide accommodations during the process if needed.
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