Head of Strategy & Development

# Accepting applications until:
30 October 2026
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Job Description

Your Role: Head of Strategy & Development

As  Head of Strategy & Development  at Global,  you’ll  be at the heart of  shaping  Global’s   future ,  providing  strategic direction on  growth   opportunities  across  Audio , Video , Consumer  and Outdoor.  In this role,  you’ll  work closely with internal stakeholders ,  including the CEO,  COO,  CFO , and CCO, as well as external advisors.

The work is  largely project  based, requiring the  Head of Strategy & Development  to manage their own time to ensure deadlines are met and that work is delivered to a consistently high standard.

Key Responsibilities

- Strateg y development & execution :  Support  across  Audio , Video , Consumer  and Outdoor with strategy development, analysis, and execution of strategic and operational initiatives.

- Financial modelling :  Construct business cases, build models and conduct analysis to assess organic growth opportunities.

- Transaction support :  Support the negotiation and structuring of joint ventures and M&A transactions should they arise.

- Negotiation :   Support negotiations on major supplier contracts such as transmission, music  rights  and  O utdoor advertising landlords.

- Market insight :   Monitor and analyse economic and competitor activity to  identify  and prioritise growth opportunities and risks.

- Executive-level presentation :   Produce presentations and papers to communicate project findings to the Board and Senior Exec.

What  You’ll  Love About This Role

Think Big :  S hape the future strategy of a leading and fast-growing UK media  & entertainment  business .

Own It :  M anage projects across all  G lobal departments,  including:   Audio ,  Video ,  Consumer,  digital, ad tech, Outdoor advertising (UK and Europe) and our sales organisation .

Keep it Simple :   Structure complex problems and synthesise insights to enable critical board-level decisions .

Better Together :  C ollaborate  with stakeholders across our Audio , Video , Consumer   and Outdoor businesses , including senior management .

What Success Looks Like

In your first few months,  you’ll  have:

- Managed strategic projects across several departments .

- Become a trusted advisor to key  teams across Global .

- Developed strategic insights that inform crucial decisions .

- Built  a deep knowledge of  Global’s  audiences, customers ,  services  and market s.

What  You’ll  Need

- Strategy toolkit:  A  broad  strategy toolkit,  including strategic thinking, project management, modelling and presentation skills ,  developed through working on strategic projects in a strategy consultancy and/or commercial organisation  for  2-5 years .

- Ownership:  Proven   ability to take end-to-end ownership of workstreams with  a high level  of independence, including leading analysis, managing stakeholders, and producing deliverables. Skilled at engaging senior leaders to secure input,  guidance  and alignment.

- Media passion:   The ability to  demonstrate  real passion for advertising, media, digital products, and the importance of data and personalisation.

- Media knowledge:  An understanding of the UK media and entertainment landscape, and evolving consumer propositions.

- High performance:   A track record  of  exceeding expectations and delivering outstanding results .   Exceptional attention to detail .

- Problem-solving:  Ability to structure and solve complex strategic problems   and to  create presentations that clearly explain the results.

- Excel  and quantitative skills :  Strong excel  and numerical  skills with  experience  build ing  financial models to evaluate organic growth opportunities and acquisitions.

- Relationship building :  Skilled at  build ing  relationships and  influenc ing  key stakeholders both internally and externally.

- Leadership:  Experience leading  and coordinating  cross-functional teams  to deliver projects

- Executive-level communication :   Experience in  synthesising insights, preparing and delivering  succinct reporting and responses at Board level .

- Organisational  skills:  Highly organised, with a structured and disciplined approach to manage and prioritise heavy workloads in a deadline-oriented role.  The role will typically be working on multiple projects simultaneously, and the candidate will need to prioritise appropriately whilst making sure each project continues to progress.

- Adaptability:   The unpredictability of the role’s project-based requirements may result in unusual or longer hours being incurred on occasion, as well as travel from time to time.

- Bias to action :  The candidate needs to be p roactive,  rigorous  and analytical with a hands-on and “sleeves rolled up” approach.

- M&A   (Preferred) :   Experience evaluating and executing M&A transactions preferred, but not a requirement.