At Ogilvy Social.Lab Amsterdam, we inspire brands and people to impact the world. We do this by delivering borderless creativity at the intersections of culture, data and creativity. All of our disciplines work together in our bright, open-plan office, with a friendly culture and creatively permissive environment (we find the best ideas pop up that way).
We know that our success is a direct result of our dedicated team. Therefore, we are looking for a talented Dutch speaking Strategy Director who can contribute to nurturing and developing some of the most established regional and international brands.
If that sounds like somewhere you want to be, read on…
We are the architects of Borderless Creativity;
Distilling business problems and unlocking human nature;
Powering strategic transformations and unleashing creativity;
Creating impact for people, brands and culture.
We separate the useful from the interesting, to get to less ordinary answers.
Your role will be to:
Define the problem: What have we been asked to do, what can we do, what should we do?
Reframe the problem to identify new opportunities for the client and agency.
Insight Creation: Finding things out, filtering them, rethinking them laterally to inspire.
Pioneer new research techniques with client and get to insights that shape businesses.
Set the Path: Giving inspiration, clarity & confidence to the team about what needs to be done.
Act as a triumvirate with Account and Creative lead to ensure positive direction of client activity.
Ideation: Helping creative & other disciplines come up with better ideas, faster.
Act as an idea originator outside of main briefs and proactively seeks to develop new ideas.
Prototyping and Storytelling: Defining the idea, proving, communicating & selling it.
Pioneer new ways of framing and selling and idea, consistently using compelling soundbites.
Manifesting the Work: Crafting the experience journey and delivery detail that brings the idea to life.
Influence senior clients into experimenting with new channels, content and technology.
Measurement and Effectiveness: Proving if, how and why the work created real value for the business and consumers.
Show recognised expertise linked to proving the value of ideas to organisations.
About you
Our Values
We have a set of five values that we expect everybody in the agency to sign up to. It’s not a set of rules, but it is a set of beliefs about how we go about our daily lives that we think helps set expectations of the kind of folk we look for.
Divine Discontent: We always seek the less ordinary
Relentless Curiosity: Just try it
Adaptive Connection: Everyone matters, embrace difference
Pervasive Creativity: Put creativity first
Eternal Craft: Care about every detail
What we offer