About WPP Media WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. With exceptional talent, trusted data and intelligence, and world-class partnerships – all united by our pioneering agentic marketing platform, WPP Open – we help clients navigate change, capture opportunity, and deliver transformational growth. WPP Media is WPP's AI-driven media operating unit, bringing together media, data, and partnerships to deliver creative personalisation at scale.

Connected through WPP Open and powered by Open Intelligence, clients see exactly where, how, and why their media investment is working. com . 2268 - Strategy Director [Estée Lauder Companies] - GCS Reports to: SVP, Comms Strategy The Role Summary Impact The Strategy Director works within the WPP Media GCS Strategy Capabilities (S C) Team.

Our S C team specialises in driving growth for our multinational clients looking for a unified brand presence across markets and continents that adapts to the cultural and human differences across these. Leveraging the power of media platforms to engage with audiences across cultures, countries continents. The primary focus of the Strategy Director is on the development of new international media connections strategies.

From inception to sign off, overseeing strategic alignment of activation across local teams. Reporting to the SVP, Comms Strategy, the successful candidate will work with a team of people from a range of specialists in the agency to develop insightful, impactful strategies that help our clients to grow. You are a unique strategist looking to find your new home amongst others who want to create new spaces for Media to engage humans transform their experiences with brands.

As an individual, you are: · Curious: about humans, what makes them tick, what makes them connect. About channels, new, old and changing, always asking how we can break the mould of how things may have been. · Creative: always looking for new and exciting ways to bring brands to audiences.

For the extra ‘spark’ or stretch in the plan that may not be expected. · Challenging: themselves and others to consider if there is a new way, a better way or an uncharted way to solve business challenges. · Collaborative: a desire ability to collaborate with different skills, personalities and ways of thinking.

To bring people together to find new ways to design, deliver strategies and hold ourselves accountable to them. About The Beauty Foundry: The Beauty Foundry is WPP Media's bespoke, dedicated team built exclusively for The Estée Lauder Companies, one of the world's most iconic portfolios of prestige beauty brands. Spanning Heritage Prestige and Luxury Skincare, Derma and Active, Artistry and Makeup, Fragrance and Travel Retail, ELC operates across more than 50 markets with some of the most recognized and loved brands in beauty.

The Beauty Foundry exists to accelerate ELC's transformation agenda Growth Reimagined by connecting brand-building and demand generation across the full funnel, powered by WPP Open, our end-to-end AI-driven platform. This is a once-in-a-career opportunity to work at the intersection of prestige beauty, technology and global media transformation. This role will be part of the regional team based in London who look after a newly formed region EUKEM which is made up of Europe, Middle East and Parts of Asia (India, Thailand and SE4).

The business is split into two business unit: Skincare and haircare; and Make up and Fragrance. The role will sit alongside a second Strategy Director, each of whom will own their own set of brands and clients to manage including two Media Managers and Brand Managers for their top tier brands. Both roles report into and work closely with the SVP, Comms Strategy who leads the media transformation at a regional level.