Director, Lifestyle Brands

COMPANY BACKGROUND 

Egg Strategy is a strategic consulting agency dedicated to helping our clients find their true path forward.  With creative rigor and genuine collaboration, we help uncover the truths that can inspire direction, change and transformation for our clients. We do this through our expertise in brand strategy, innovation and consumer insight which we deploy across our three business verticals of Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), Health and Lifestyle.

At Egg, our approach is strategic, thoughtful, and in service of a bigger long-term ambition.  We are motivated by having our creative-thinking skills consistently stretched, seeing our ideas succeed in the marketplace and working to lead the world’s most famous brands towards growth.

Collaborative, friendly and team-oriented, we place an enormous amount of emphasis on our team’s growth and development by providing strong career mentoring to ensure personal success and job satisfaction.

JOB OVERVIEW

We’re seeking a DIRECTOR with specific experience as a senior-level consultant leading insights, brand strategy and/or innovation for major brands.We have offices in Denver, New York and Chicago but will consider remote in most locations.

This person must understand how to interpret clients’ strategic imperatives and lead projects that deliver powerful strategies that make clients come back to Egg time and time again.  

Our Directors run  client accounts and partner closely with the Leadership Team. Importantly, Directors still roll up their sleeves to create and execute a wide range of insight-hunting research, consumer collaborations and brand strategy workshops (and less frequently innovation workshops). Travel is variable, traditionally has been up to 30% but in a post COVID landscape this has yet to be defined.

Egg Directors work across multiple projects simultaneously, so we’re looking for someone who can set vision while building strong teams and guiding them to realize ambitious goals.  We’d love to hear how you’ve inspired teams to do great work, leveraging their own ideas and talents under your direction.

DESIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

We’re looking for leaders who are practitioners of some combination of market research, brand strategy and innovation, with skills they can teach and coach in others. Strength in any area is great, and a growth mindset to learning in others is highly valued.

The ideal candidate is an expert with 8 years of experience in insights and brand strategy, with experience and a desire to help us grow in Spirits/Wine/Beer Category or in technology/Media/Gaming.  We are interested in candidates coming out of strategic research shops or possibly from an ad agency that has strategy at the center of their practice (beyond brand positioning for comms only). Or, those who are excelling at other insights and strategy consultancies or currently client-side, but looking for a new place to pursue their passions. We are really seeking a hybrid ... a strategically minded researcher ... or a research comfortable strategist.

Successful candidates will also have an understanding of business development behaviors, both via new and organically growing existing relationships.

We are motivated by having our creative-thinking skills consistently stretched, and seeing our ideas succeed in the marketplace.  Egg’s an exciting place to work – it’s dynamic and growing, and full of passion for great ideas that can make our clients famous. Hiring range for this position is 135K to 175K range (based on experience and location),

WORKING AT EGG STRATEGY

Egg Strategy offers a very collaborative working culture. We are an equal opportunity employer, celebrating diversity and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We also offer a very comprehensive benefits package that includes:

• Medical, dental, vision, disability/life/AD&D insurance
• 15 holidays plus 21 days of other time off per year
• 401(k) plan with incredible matching
• Hybrid working schedule (preference may go to candidates in Denver, New York and Chicago, but will consider remote in most locations). 
• Love to travel? Ask about our “work away from home for up to 3 months a year” program
• Wellness programs, cell phone reimbursement

We’re looking forward to learning more about you!