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Job Description - Strategy Associate Director

Company Introduction:

Labbrand is the leading China based brand consultancy working with international brands to succeed in China and to guide them in their development abroad. We believe in the power of Brand Innovations Labbrand offers a full range of services from market & consumer research, brand strategy, naming and visual identity design to innovate your brand. We excel at each service component. At the same time, we integrate insights from our findings throughout the branding journey to create outstanding transformations. In this inspiring environment, you will be empowered to put your talents into the practice of the service provided to our client and set ambitious goals for your career.

Description of the Position:

Labbrand is looking for an ambitious and enterprising Business Director for Strategy Department, based in our Shanghai headquarters. You will be the growth engine and key advocator of our own brand. You will actively participate in marketing activities to engage our prospects and existing clients, form and grow trust-based client relationships, prepare right product offerings to fulfill clients’ needs, ensure smooth transition from business development to project teams, keep an open mind for innovative business development skills and approaches, and manage deliver business target.

Detailed Responsibilities:

？ Business development achievement:

- Lead proposal presentation/ quotes making/ formatting/ mailing and so on to clients for new opportunity.

- Collaborate with Business Department to activate existing clients and develop new clients. Supervise or take charge of Strategy proposals, attending pitch meetings and presentation meetings.

- Participate in marketing activities and maintain account management, including attending events, forum, and presentation meeting regularly on a strategic level to activate regular customers.

- Organize the development of compelling case studies and newsletters (content/visuals) from completed projects, as well as relevant articles to promote Labbrand consulting services.

？ Account management & Project operation supervision:

- Lead projects, allocate and organize resources, supervise project execution. Projects are mainly brand positioning, brand architecture, messaging matrix management and so on.

- Organize project flow, including brand management coordination, brand equity research, brand roadmap development and relevant qualitative and quantitative research with a great sense of accountability for project methodology and goal and in respect with time constraints.

- Communicate with clients to understand and respond to their needs efficiently.

- Take an active role in steering the project, assessing and creating new opportunities along the delivery of the project.

- Take control of the report quality and run final report to clients.

- Coordinate with departments for cross-department projects.

？ Team development:

- Implement quality improvement, including organization, process, and tools.

- Develop/learn and apply innovative methodologies to meet specific goals: Sales Skills, Customers Efficient Communication, Customer Service, etc.

- Guide team to learn new knowledge and techniques.

- Coach the team, conduct performance evaluation and improve the quality of team members on a regular basis.

Note: this responsibilities list is non-exhaustive.

Requested competencies:

？ General:

- Result and customer oriented

- Strong sense of accountability and responsibility with integrity and trust

- Ability to progress autonomously and strong learning ability

- Collaborative sense

- Cross cultural Sensitivity with proficiency in English as well as Mandarin

？ Director Specific

- Planning and Prioritization skills

- Ability to implement a performance management

- Propensity to build relationship and loyalty

- Anticipation and solving of conflicts

- Developing and Motivating others

- Ability to Delegate effectively

- Master degree or above

- At least 10 years work experience

？ Role specific

- Systematic thinking and capacity for abstraction

- Passionate

Working at Labbrand

Our organizational structure enables flexibility and independence in way of working, giving you more trust and more autonomy to hone your skills and continuously progress in Labbrand.

We respect and stimulate innovation of ideas, and are dedicated to give sense to all our projects and work, helping you to enjoy creating a meaningful brand and your impact on its success.

Labbrand is the leading China-originated global brand consultancy with regional operations in APAC (Shanghai, Singapore), Europe (Paris), and North America (New York, Vancouver). By bringing excellence together from market & consumer research, brand strategy, verbal identity and design, we create meaningful brand journeys.

We drive forward the positive power of branding.

Our leading expertise and unique perspectives are recognized by international awards as well as global media outlets including BBC, The New York Times, The Economist, Bloomberg, CBNWeekly and more.