Job Description
What if your expertise could help someone, somewhere, to live a better life?
Helping children living with juvenile idiopathic arthritis to communicate their pain, giving people with psoriasis their confidence back, shocking 2.3 million HCPs into taking action against second heart attacks to proving to the world that eczema isn’t a skin condition.
Havas Lynx Group is a creative communications agency dedicated to changing the way the world does healthcare communications for the better. We are committed to bringing about change. Change informed by experience, driven by innovation and proven in delivery. We work alongside healthcare professionals, patients, carers, and pharmaceutical brands to overcome the complex challenges of modern healthcare. Our work blends strategic insight and deep scientific understanding with creativity and digital innovation, delivering healthcare campaigns and solutions that really make a difference to people’s lives.
An accredited Top 40 ‘UK Great Place to Work’, we’re a team of over 500+ people in Manchester and London, with a history of over 35 years and an ever-evolving future. You can get a feel for the #LYNXLife via YouTube, #LYNXLife playlist, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
Everything this company achieves, every life it saves, every penny it makes, every policy it changes, every award it wins, is down to everyone that works here.
Our Role
As Head of Strategy, you will partner closely with your Agency Leadership Team (ALT) and other disciplines to define what success looks like for your agency, whilst playing a pivotal role in making it happen.
Leading the Strategy Team, you are responsible for their happiness, career success, and the strategic output for your agency. You will take responsibility and ownership over key accounts, building lasting client partnerships that allow us to create impactful, effective work; whilst identifying opportunities for growth and new business.
Acting as a true partner to the ALT, you will support agency growth and development, playing a lead role in inspiring, motivating and gaining buy-in from the wider team, whilst championing the strategy discipline within your agency, across Havas Lynx Group and externally.
What you can expect from us
A supportive and challenging environment in which you will have the opportunity to learn, grow, and make an impact that matters. We put a huge investment into #LYNXLife and our #LXAcademy internal programmes. It’s a unique initiative that aims to reward hard work, reduce pressures, and ensure that we can all enjoy our time at Lynx. Our strategy is to build capabilities internally and inspire the best talent, so we can continue to deliver on our mission.
What we’d like to see from you:
* Previous experience in a similar role (agency experience is required)
* Previous experience of leading client relationships in a similar environment
* Experience of leading and mentoring others - team of 4-6 ideally
* Agency leadership experience
* Healthcare experience would be ideal
* Brand strategy expertise in a creative environment (not media experience)
You can also expect a whole host of benefits, including:
* Hybrid Working - 3 days in the office, flexi hours are in place for days in the office in Manchester
* 28 days annual leave + option to buy more/carry over and sell them back
* Increasing holiday allowance connected to length of service (with the option to buy more, or sell)
* Early Friday finish throughout the year
* Extra early Friday finish during summer months
* Late Monday start during winter months
* Wellness Wednesdays with extended lunch hours
* Wellbeing programme – yoga, football, running club, hiking and more
* Season ticket interest free loans for travel
* #LXAcademy – our huge bespoke training programme for personal and professional development
* Life insurance
* Company pension scheme
* Medicash healthcare benefit
* Enhanced parental return to work scheme
* Fully paid for, company parties and socials!
Get in touch to find out how we can make an impact that matters together.