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Corporate Strategy Director

Location: London

Education

Competitive Package

We are partnering with a leader in the UK higher education and professional training sector, empowering people worldwide to build and transform their careers. They are seeking a Corporate Strategy Director to play a pivotal role in shaping and advancing the organisation’s corporate strategic agenda and value creation plan. The successful candidate will lead high-impact projects across the organisation, working closely with the executive leadership team to support the design, execution, and monitoring of the corporate-level strategic plan.

This role provides analytical, research, and programmatic support for corporate-level and business unit strategic initiatives, driving clarity, alignment, and execution excellence across the organisation. It offers the opportunity to shape the long-term direction while delivering immediate value through targeted, high-profile projects.

The successful candidate will be a highly motivated self-starter with proven ability to work in an agile manner in a fast-paced environment, both independently and collaboratively.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the development and implementation of the corporate strategic plan in partnership with the executive team.
• Translate strategic priorities into actionable initiatives, ensuring alignment across the group and business units.
• Provide in-depth analysis of industry trends, regulatory changes, and competitive dynamics to inform decision-making.
• Conduct financial modelling, scenario planning, and business case development for key initiatives.
• Deliver bespoke research and analysis to support executive and board-level discussions.
• Lead and coordinate high-impact, cross-functional strategic projects that span multiple business units.
• Drive clarity of scope, ensure alignment of outcomes, and support execution against strategic objectives.
• Manage timelines, risks, and progress reporting for key initiatives.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with senior stakeholders across the organisation.
• Collaborate with functional teams to gain buy-in and ensure delivery of recommendations.
• Provide support for external engagements, including strategic partnerships and potential corporate development opportunities.
• Support due diligence and assessment of strategic synergies for potential partnerships or acquisitions.
• Work with integration teams on relevant strategic topics related to post-merger integration processes.

The Ideal Candidate:

• Proven experience in strategic planning, execution, and project management at the corporate level.
• Experience in strategy consulting or within a corporate strategy function.
• Exposure to education, professional services, digital transformation, technology, or knowledge-based industries is advantageous.
• Strong financial modelling, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Track record of delivering strategic projects in areas such as growth strategies, internationalisation, digital transformation, and value creation.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage senior leaders.
• Self-motivated and adaptable, capable of managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven track record in driving complex operational strategy projects such as operating model creation, business transformation, and related strategic initiatives.

**Our Purpose**
_Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential._
**Title and Summary**
Director Strategy, Commercial and New Payment Flows (CNPF)
Director Strategy, Commercial and New Payment Flows (CNPF)
Job Title: Director, Enterprise Strategy
Join our dynamic Strategy and Execution team. This strategy role is ideal for someone passionate about payments and innovation. Our team focuses on Commercial and New Payment flows - payments made and received by small business & large corporations, and money movement transactions (e.g., P2P) via our Mastercard Move capabilities.
We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential.
We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team - one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.
Responsibilities:
- Support business leaders within CNPF to design, evaluate and advance their strategies, with a strong focus on in-market delivery and implementation.
- Contribute to the CNPF's overall strategy through thought leadership and creativity.
- Build strong, cross-functional alignment with key stakeholders across MA (e.g., Core Payments, Services, regional leadership and other function groups etc.) to drive execution
- Identify, structure, and prioritize cross-functional initiatives (e.g., secular shift opportunities, market-level execution plans, key product priorities, etc.) to generate actionable recommendations.
- Apply strategic and analytical rigor to product and regional strategies, acting as a thought partner
- Maintain knowledge of the commercial and money movement landscape and market trends to develop innovative solutions and product strategies.
- Share learnings and insights with global product teams, regional product teams, and other key stakeholders, where relevant.
- Working and leading across of cross functional teams to drive outputs and deliverables.
Qualifications:
- Extensive experience in strategy consulting or developing go-to-market strategies for payments.
- Extensive experience of translating strategies to execution plans, driving end to end execution - particularly in a cross-functional environment
- Strong understanding of Mastercard's products, services, and key revenue drivers, as well as the larger payment industry.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills to work with internal and external stakeholders.
- Analytical and solutions-oriented with the ability to drive thought leadership in commercial payments & money movement
**Corporate Security Responsibility**
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
+ Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
+ Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
+ Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
+ Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.

Our client is one of the leading boutique strategy and innovation consultancies, they are known for their outstanding strategy, innovation, brand and futures work for some of the biggest global brands in the world. Going strong for decades and still independent, they have gone from strength to strength in the last few years and are able to offer one of the best work life balances you're likely to find agency side. They are now on the lookout for someone to come on board as their most senior strategy director and oversee the team in their most strategically important hire to date. It's a role offering significant oversight and ownership for someone who thrives being both executional and strategic, with exceptional big picture thinking skills. The role and requirements: - Senior Strategy Director role to oversee current team of strategists, will need to already be operating at and be established at Strategy Director level - Previous experience from a boutique strategy or innovation consultancy essential, any client side experience in addition to this a bonus - Being the lead on their most important accounts, with exceptional client handling skills - Brand strategy expert, including across positioning, innovation and portfolio work - Strong FMCG experience essential - Passion, energy and gravitas will be key If this opportunity excites you and you can match all of the requirements then please do get in touch to find out more. We Are Aspire Ltd are a Disability Confident Commited employer

Our client is one of the leading boutique strategy and innovation consultancies, they are known for their outstanding strategy, innovation, brand and futures work for some of the biggest global brands in the world. Going strong for decades and still independent, they have gone from strength to strength in the last few years and are able to offer one of the best work life balances you're likely to find agency side.

They are now on the lookout for someone to come on board as their most senior strategy director and oversee the team in their most strategically important hire to date. It's a role offering significant oversight and ownership for someone who thrives being both executional and strategic, with exceptional big picture thinking skills.

The role and requirements:

- Senior Strategy Director role to oversee current team of strategists, will need to already be operating at and be established at Strategy Director level

- Previous experience from a boutique strategy or innovation consultancy essential, any client side experience in addition to this a bonus

- Being the lead on their most important accounts, with exceptional client handling skills

- Brand strategy expert, including across positioning, innovation and portfolio work

- Strong FMCG experience essential

- Passion, energy and gravitas will be key

If this opportunity excites you and you can match all of the requirements then please do get in touch to find out more.

We Are Aspire Ltd are a Disability Confident Commited employer

Job Description

Our client is one of the leading boutique strategy and innovation consultancies, they are known for their outstanding strategy, innovation, brand and futures work for some of the biggest global brands in the world. Going strong for decades and still independent, they have gone from strength to strength in the last few years and are able to offer one of the best work life balances you're likely to find agency side.

They are now on the lookout for someone to come on board as their most senior strategy director and oversee the team in their most strategically important hire to date. It's a role offering significant oversight and ownership for someone who thrives being both executional and strategic, with exceptional big picture thinking skills.

The role and requirements:

- Senior Strategy Director role to oversee current team of strategists, will need to already be operating at and be established at Strategy Director level

- Previous experience from a boutique strategy or innovation consultancy essential, any client side experience in addition to this a bonus

- Being the lead on their most important accounts, with exceptional client handling skills

- Brand strategy expert, including across positioning, innovation and portfolio work

- Strong FMCG experience essential

- Passion, energy and gravitas will be key

If this opportunity excites you and you can match all of the requirements then please do get in touch to find out more.

We Are Aspire Ltd are a Disability Confident Commited employer

**Our Purpose**
_Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential._
**Title and Summary**
Consulting Director, AI Strategy
Our Purpose
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
Title and Summary
Senior Managing Consultant/Director, AI Strategy (Financial Services)
Position Overview
Reporting to the Principal and working closely with the Mastercard AI team, the Senior Managing Consultant, AI Strategy will spearhead AI-driven consulting engagements for clients-especially card issuers and other financial services organizations. You will lead multidisciplinary teams of data scientists, ML engineers, and business strategists to develop long term strategies to build AI solutions and implement AI solutions that transform how clients approach analytics, automation, and value generation.
In this role, you will:
1. Shape and deliver AI strategies that address complex business challenges for payments-centric companies.
2. Advance the firm's AI capabilities through consistent thought leadership, external outreach, and the development of new service offerings.
3. Mentor and grow junior colleagues, fostering a collaborative team culture around innovative AI methodologies.
Key Responsibilities
1. Develop AI-Driven Strategies for Business Impact
- Identify high-impact opportunities for AI and analytics within client organizations, particularly in card issuing and payments.
- Quantify the full value potential of AI solutions, detailing the value levers, critical dependencies, and feasibility pathways to maximize ROI.
- Architect end-to-end AI solutions by combining expertise in data engineering, solution design, and domain-specific knowledge (e.g., credit card issuing).
- Secure Alignment from executive stakeholders, translating ambitious AI visions into actionable plans with clear timelines, deliverables, and success metrics.
- Scale effective AI initiatives across multiple use cases, proactively addressing technical or organizational hurdles to ensure widespread adoption.
2. Lead Rapid, Iterative AI Delivery
- Partner with AI and ML engineering leaders to oversee project roadmaps, ensuring iterative versioning, pilot rollouts, and timely stakeholder updates.
- Collaborate closely with business leaders to co-own solutions, gather continuous feedback, and adjust scopes for maximum business value.
- Drive a balanced approach to problem-solving, focusing on both technical feasibility and strategic payoff-avoiding unnecessary complexity.
- Augment client teams by providing change management and AI expertise, ensuring full realization of value and adoption of best practices.
3. Expand Thought Leadership & External Network
- Publish and present on cutting-edge AI methods and industry insights-e.g., through whitepapers, case studies, conference keynotes, and journal articles.
- Build an external network of AI experts, industry leaders, and academic partners to keep the firm at the forefront of emerging AI trends.
- Advise on best practices around AI ethics, governance, and regulatory considerations in financial services.
- Elevate the firm's reputation by participating in relevant forums, client discussions, and industry events, driving new business opportunities.
4. Innovate & Scale the AI Operating Model
- Develop new delivery frameworks and methodologies to enhance the speed and consistency of AI project execution.
- Codify best practices, creating reusable assets (templates, playbooks) that help internal teams replicate successful approaches.
- Mentor junior colleagues, providing technical guidance and career development support to foster a robust, forward-thinking AI community.
- Champion cross-functional collaboration, ensuring alignment among data science, engineering, and business teams to deliver holistic solutions.
Qualifications & Skills
- Experience in leading data-driven strategies and delivering measurable outcomes (preferably in financial services, payments, or card issuing).
- GenAI Hands-on experience: Developed and deployed GenAI use cases with proven value from end to end.Developed tools with open source LLM models (e.g., Deepseek, Liama).
- Thought Leadership: Demonstrated history of publishing, speaking at conferences, or driving innovative AI solutions in a recognized industry setting.
- Communication: Excellent executive-level presentation skills and the ability to translate complex AI concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
- Agile Mindset: Familiarity with agile methodologies, iterative development, and modern technology project management practices.
- Financial Services Domain: Deep understanding of the payments ecosystem and key operational challenges relevant to card issuers.
- Leadership: Experience managing direct reports and/or cross-functional teams, with a track record of mentoring talent and building high-performing groups.
- Education: Bachelor's degree (or higher) in computer science, engineering, or related fields; Master's degree or equivalent advanced study strongly preferred.
Why Join Us
- Impact at Scale: Collaborate with top-tier clients in the financial services space to drive transformational AI initiatives.
- Thought Leadership Platform: Shape industry perspectives by publishing, attending major events, and building an influential network.
- Professional Growth: Develop your leadership and technical skills by working on cutting-edge projects with leading experts in applied AI.
- Innovative Culture: Contribute to a dynamic environment that values experimentation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
**Corporate Security Responsibility**
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
+ Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
+ Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
+ Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
+ Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.

Who We Are Looking For: Accenture Song seeking an Engagement Strategy Director to join our London-based global team, who will be responsible for supporting the development of data-rich, behavior-shaping engagement solutions to deliver better customer experiences for our life sciences clients. We are looking for a results-oriented team player who supports executing our HCP and patient engagement strategy deliverables, quickly sees patterns and solutions from an avalanche of data, moves from information and insights to implications and recommendations with ease, and is also prepared to roll up their sleeves and partner with our full strategy, account, creative and production team talents. The ideal candidate will utilise a diverse set of qualities, such as intellectual and creative curiosity, problem-solving skills, attention to detail, hypothesis generation and determination . You will know the media and technology landscape widely used in life sciences fluently – and are already predicting how this landscape will evolve in the health & wellness vertical. This person will be working with a team of talented individuals at Accenture Song to help create prescriptive, actionable, and market changing experiences for our clients customers. Reporting to the Head of Strategy in London, you will help build and manage a team of talented strategists. Your team will guide our clients to shaping the data and intelligence gathering process, crafting engagement solutions, and defining the ambitions of these solutions internally and with our clients. What You Will Do: Work as a part of an integrated strategy team to proactively propose HCP and patience engagement solutions to help clients achieve relevant customer experiences while aligning to client goals and business challenges, shaping their data and intelligence gathering architecture, and their capacity to introduce viable solutions into the marketplace Serve in client-facing capacity for omnichannel programming and content/channel integration Contribute to data and intelligence gathering efforts (including 1st party data) that uncover opportunities, and pinpoint how these can be used to enhance the customer's overall experience with the brand Translating historical analytics and performance reports into meaningful recommendations to optimise campaigns “on-the-fly” as well as input into future campaign strategies Remove the mystery on the translation from facts and information to ideas and impact Ensure that engagement and content solutions developed by strategic planning, account, production, and creative teams are properly integrated within larger marketing programs aligned to drive customer experience Collaborate with executional teams during the development of projects to ensure strategies are pulled through effectively during development and handoff Contribute to the development of cross-channel measurement plans and KPIs and develop recommendations and approaches based on performance analytics Contribute to the success in achieving digital, social, and innovation fluency across the agency as a whole Partner with the broader strategy team to contribute to the development of pitches, proposals & POVs, strategies, and tactical programs that satisfy the business goals of our healthcare clients and beyond Continually educate internal teams and our clients on the vital role insights play to being critical to growth and success Drive ideas from data to conceptual platforms to deployment that drive business results Stay up-to-date on market trends, societal shifts, and strategic initiatives in health and wellness and across other key verticals, promoting innovative and acting as an ongoing evangelist for alternative approaches Facilitate workshops to develop groundbreaking experience led strategies and programs with clients Support the development of CRM and Omnichannel planning with support from brand/content strategy and analytics teams Facilitate service introduction & change confirmation focusing on market opportunities What you Bring: 7 year of experience working in Digital, CX or Engagement Strategy at a creative agency Experienced in life sciences marketing, including both HCP and patient Strong analytical skills Expert in engagement channels and technology widely used in Life Sciences Impeccable written and verbal communication skills Ability to tell a simple story visually and verbally behind a strong strategic point of view A drive to elevate thinking and the work A curious mentality The desire to be great About Accenture We work with one shared purpose: to deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity. 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Social Strategy Director Independent Media Agency | London | Up to £100,000 per annum Please note: This is not a paid social opportunity. This is a rare opportunity to take a senior, visible role within one of the UK’s most respected independent media agencies, leading the charge on social strategy across a wide-ranging client portfolio. As the agency continues to invest in its future-facing services, social creativity and content has become an area in which clients & new business prospects are seeking further integration with traditional paid media solutions that media agencies offer. You’ll be a key player in shaping what social strategy looks like, helping clients, internal teams and the wider business understand how platform-native thinking, community building, and storytelling can drive brand and business outcomes. The role: Working across a mix of categories (no siloed verticals here), you’ll develop innovative, insight-led social strategies that inform both long-term brand building and agile content opportunities. You’ll also play a key role in leading the agency’s pitch work for social bringing big-picture thinking and creative rigour to new business conversations, and collaborating with creative and media teams to land standout ideas. You’ll bring: Proven experience developing organic and content led social strategies across a range of sectors Strong content instincts, from platform-first storytelling to campaign development Confidence leading strategic conversations with senior clients The ability to work cross-functionally with media, creative, and digital specialists Curiosity, creative flair, and a forward-thinking mindset

Social Strategy Director Independent Media Agency | London | Up to £100,000 per annum Please note: This is not a paid social opportunity. This is a rare opportunity to take a senior, visible role within one of the UK’s most respected independent media agencies, leading the charge on social strategy across a wide-ranging client portfolio. As the agency continues to invest in its future-facing services, social creativity and content has become an area in which clients & new business prospects are seeking further integration with traditional paid media solutions that media agencies offer. You’ll be a key player in shaping what social strategy looks like, helping clients, internal teams and the wider business understand how platform-native thinking, community building, and storytelling can drive brand and business outcomes. The role: Working across a mix of categories (no siloed verticals here), you’ll develop innovative, insight-led social strategies that inform both long-term brand building and agile content opportunities. You’ll also play a key role in leading the agency’s pitch work for social bringing big-picture thinking and creative rigour to new business conversations, and collaborating with creative and media teams to land standout ideas. You’ll bring: Proven experience developing organic and content led social strategies across a range of sectors Strong content instincts, from platform-first storytelling to campaign development Confidence leading strategic conversations with senior clients The ability to work cross-functionally with media, creative, and digital specialists Curiosity, creative flair, and a forward-thinking mindset