Head of Creative Strategy at Soar With Us, London, United Kingdom - 21 May

Senior leadership position heading the Creative Strategy department for a top UK performance agency group, focused on people leadership, operational excellence, and commercial oversight of a 20+ person team.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop four Creative Leads with responsibility for performance management, succession planning, and coaching senior talent into autonomous leaders
• Own department P&L with EBITDA as primary KPI alongside utilisation tracking, capacity planning, and FTE strategy
• Design and scale operational processes including workflows, reporting cadences, and production handoffs while maintaining quality control
• Build and sustain a department culture of ownership, curiosity, and continuous improvement
• Drive commercial growth through strategic input at senior management level and cross-functional collaboration with Account Management, Production, and Growth teams
• Support organisational development to enable exponential revenue growth over the next 12-24 months

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading teams of 20+ people, ideally within an agency or marketing services environment
• Track record of building leadership benches and coaching senior individual contributors into confident leaders
• Strong commercial acumen with direct P&L ownership, budget management, and utilisation modelling experience
• Process-oriented mindset with ability to design and protect complex operating systems at scale
• Demonstrated success leading teams through organisational change such as restructuring, scaling, or M&A
• Excellent communication skills with experience delivering feedback, running meetings, and presenting to senior stakeholders
• AI-literate with understanding of how AI tools impact creative and marketing workflows

Benefits And Growth

• Competitive base salary plus up to 10% quarterly bonus tied to commercial KPIs
• 28 days paid holiday with additional day awarded annually after two years of service
• Private health and life insurance
• Company pension scheme
• One-month annual work-abroad allowance
• Hybrid working model with two days per week in Central London Camden office