Group Strategy Director Maternity (12 months)

Akcelo is a multi award-winning brand experience and innovation company that delivers powerful experiences people love. We fuse creativity with experience design to solve business problems and uncover white-space opportunities for some of the world’s most famous brands and businesses.

The Opportunity

We’re looking for a Strategy Director who can confidently lead the strategic charge on how brands show up in the world-  not just in what they say, but how they behave. Leading major campaigns, helping win pitches, and guiding junior strategists along the way

You uncover unexpected provocations and possess a creative “sixth sense”, knowing which strategies will unlock breakthrough creative thinking and inspire clients to buy bold and playful work.

The chance to work with the latest technology and some of the world’s most famous brands, the role of the Strategy Director includes:

Lead beyond the brief. Be the strategic heartbeat of your clients’ business. Build the kind of trust that earns a seat at the table — where you can shape the work, challenge the brief, and define the problem that really needs solving.

Fuel original thinking. Write briefs that open creative doors, inspire fresh thinking, and push the work to new places. You’re creativity-first — someone who shapes big ideas.

See what others don’t. Have high EQ, able to read culture and turn that into creative fuel. Uncover sharp insights that inspire standout creative work.

Shape how the brand shows up online. Define how it behaves across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and emerging platforms.

Create together. Collaborate across creative, client service and social -  letting ideas get knocked around and rebuilt by others — to turn strategic thinking into ideas people talk about.

What You’ll Bring

You connect the dots. You see the whole picture — across brand, comms, and creative strategy — and know how to connect them into a single, seamless brand experience.

You think creatively and commercially. You balance imagination with business acumen, diagnosing the right problem to solve and shaping strategies that turn creativity into growth.

You turn insight into ideas. You distil trends, social listening and cultural signals into provocative creative briefs that inspire breakthrough ideas. 

You build trusted partnerships.  Clients see you as their first call when challenges arise. You form genuine relationships that make Akcelo an indispensable partner in driving business results.

You make people and ideas better. You lead with curiosity and generosity. You bring a point of view, stay open to new ones, and push the work  to be sharper, braver, and more human. Shaping strategies that unlock award-winning ideas.

You embrace what’s next. You’re energised by technology and what it enables — blending human imagination with AI and innovation to push thinking further.

Sound like something that you would love to be a part of?

We also offer employees benefits like Flex Fridays, gym memberships, free breakfast, regular social events, annual ski trips and more. 

Akcelo is committed to nurturing, creating and building a diverse environment. We welcome all applications from all walks of life.