Egg Strategy Hiring for Director, CPG/Lifestyle Brand Strategy at Chicago, IL Full Time

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 (both qualitative and quantitative) which we deploy across our three business verticals of Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), Health and Lifestyle.

JOB OVERVIEW

We’re seeking a Director to work across our CPG/Lifestyle verticals for our NYC, Denver or Chicago offices (but will also consider remote opportunities) with specific experience as a senior-level consultant leading insights and brand strategy for major brands. This person must understand how to interpret clients’ strategic imperatives and lead projects that deliver powerful insights and resulting strategies that make clients come back to Egg time and time again.

Our Directors lead our project workstreams and bring vision, passion and leadership to teams as they collaboratively create and execute a wide range of insight-hunting research, consumer collaborations, brand strategy workstreams and workshops. Travel is variable, traditionally has been up to 30% but in a post-COVID landscape this has yet to be defined.

DESIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

We are seeking teammates with 10+ years of market research and strategic development on big brands, with skills they can teach and coach in others. The ideal candidate has experience in some combination of Lifestyle (e.g., Spirits, Finance, Technology + Media/Gaming, Beauty) and CPG (Food & Beverage and a desire to help us grow in Home Care, Pet Care and Personal Care).

Folks who are currently working for an advertising agency or on client-side are welcomed to apply, as long as they have solid previous consulting/service-side experience in foundational insight. CPG/Lifestyle brand specific experience is essential.

• We require hands-on experience leading projects centered around consumer illumination and uncovering insights that will make a brand, product or service more relevant and differentiated in the marketplace.

• You’ll need to be able to source insights across a variety of touchpoints including consumer behavior, cultural macrotrends and category dynamics, and lead teams and workstreams in using these insights to identify and solve strategic business and brand challenges.
• Showing up as a team and rolling up your sleeves to do the work alongside your teammates is a must. We seek to do more challenging, bigger impact work that requires an experienced team and partnership – not just with senior leadership but with your peers, junior teammates, and operations + project management partners.

• Having a fearless growth mindset is critical to your success at Egg Strategy. This means you believe no single person knows everything and there is something new to learn every day, to being humble enough to learn from mistakes, support your teams and embrace a continuous improvement attitude.
• Mentoring, teaching, actively listening and proactively relaying ideas both up and down the line management chain is a must and is core to positive collaboration
• Communication skills are key to fostering rewarding partnerships both internally and externally with clients. Understanding the context of one another’s behaviors and motivations is key to those partnerships. Being able to have positive and constructive conversations is a must.

• Our Directors enjoy generating significant new business and being accountable for leading new clients and projects on a consistent basis. Being motivated by and able to demonstrate a track record of this business ambition is key to success in this position. You will be responsible for helping to drive both vertical and company growth through new business efforts via organic growth and new business outreach.

• Significant experience with CPG/Lifestyle brands required, moderating experience a must.

• We create highly-visual, multi-media stories to convey our insights, strategies and innovation ideas. The ability to convey your ideas through photos, videos and stories is important in this position.

• Collaborative, friendly and team-oriented, we place an enormous amount of emphasis on our company culture and providing strong career mentoring to ensure personal success and job satisfaction.

• 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.

• MBA or Graduate Degree is a plus but not mandatory.

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. The hiring range for this position is 130 -160K+ bonus, depending on experience and location. We also offer a very comprehensive benefits package that includes:

• Competitive pay
• Medical, dental, vision, disability/life/AD&D insurance
• 15+ holidays
• 21+ days off per year
• 401(k) plan
• Hybrid working schedule
• Love to travel? “Work away from home for up to 3 months a year” program

If this sounds like your ideal next step, add a note about yourself. We’re looking forward to learning more about you!