Associate Director，Strategy

Location: Beijing, Interbrand China

Overall Respoibility:

Lead given strategy team to deliver high quality result for own clients. 5 key roles for this position include:

a)Champion of IB strategy practice;

b)Gate-keeper of strategy deliverables that must meet IB’s high standards;

c)Strategy team coach;

d)Co-ownehip of client relatiohip with CM leader;

e)Spoor of Manifesto/cross functional collaboration process.

Key Tasks and Respoibilities:

Financials:

-Deliver given sales and revenue targets.

-Lead own team to deliver strategy projects in timely and profitable manne.

-Participate in client pitch and retention efforts.

Client management:

-Strive for client satisfaction, while protect the firm’s reasonable interest.

-Lead project manage to integrate cross-function resources and efforts for the best results. Gatekeep the quality of all deliverables on behalf of the client.

Strategy practice champion:

-Own and drive IB strategy practice and tools.

-Strive for client satisfaction, while protect the firm’s reasonable interest.

-Be Gatekeeper of the quality of all strategy deliverables.

People development:

-Help direct reports set up peonal performance goal and improvement plan.

-Give on-job coach: teach and reinforce Interbrand Strategy practice within own team.

-Evaluate direct report’s performance.

-Contribute to strategy talent hiring.

Knowledge builds:

-Attend global training and introduce global practice back to the office.

-Host strategy training sessio.

-Contribute to BCB, IB white paper and professional commentary writing.

Skills and Attributes:

-Brand believer and practitioner: equip self with very clear and strong branding knowledge that is in line with IB’s branding philosophy.

-Creatively strategic: focus on creating world changing brand idea based upon facts and analysis.

-Peuasive and expressive: excellent spoken,written and presentation communication; must be able to ipire and peuasive all related stake holde for effective solutio.

-IB strategy practice and tool savvy: proficient on IB strategy practice and tools; be able to practice, advocate and engage team to perfect practice.

-Leadehip: motivate the team to perform its best and live up to IB’s high standards; foster strong teamwork and disciplines.

-Solid undetanding of branding theory.

Qualificatio:

-8+ yea of experience in branding/marketing aspect, management coulting or research houses. Mixed experience in research and communicatioin-house brand management experience is highly preferred

-Proven ability to awer challenging business issues

-Strong in analytical thinking and approaches. Proficient on data analysis and interpretation. Familiarity with advanced market researchtatistics is preferred.

-Passion to the brand

-Knowledge about coumer iights

-Creative mind to generate interesting ideas

-A good balance of qualitative and quantitative analytical skills

-Superior presentation and written skills in Chinese and English.

-People management experience is a must

-Bachelor degree in Business/Communicatio related major. MasteMBA is a plus

-Strong organization and presentation skills

-Strong attention to detail

-Passionate about brands.

-Travel moderately iide and outside China, depending on client and business needs.

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