Strategy Director (B2B Marketing - 10-Month Maternity Cover)

tmp helps B2B marketing leaders create coherence in a chaotic world. We’re looking for obsessively curious people to join us. 

You'll join 300 B2B experts across strategy, data, creative, media, client services, Sales activation, and shared services. Different skills brought together in integrated teams, centred around our clients: the world’s most impactful tech companies. 

So, if you’re interested in what makes the world work, if you find solving complex problems fun, and you love making the answers as simple as possible, then we’d love to hear from you.

What we are looking for

We’re looking for a Strategy Director to lead the strategic thinking and delivery across key B2B client accounts during a 10-month maternity cover (June 2026 – April 2027)

This role exists to bring clarity, direction, and ambition to complex client challenges, shaping impactful marketing strategies that drive measurable growth. 

You’ll act as a trusted advisor to senior clients, leading a mix of ABM, brand and positioning projects, while pushing the thinking forward through a consultative, insight-led approach. A key part of the role is close collaboration with the tmp Creative team, developing strategies and briefs that unlock powerful ideas and drive standout work. This is a high-impact role with ownership of key accounts within one of our UK client portfolios. 

What you will do

Set strategic direction 

• Translate complex business challenges into clear, compelling, and actionable marketing strategies.  

• Set the direction for client engagements, ensuring every piece of work ladders up to meaningful commercial outcomes.  

• Challenge client briefs constructively, pushing for sharper thinking and stronger solutions.  

Be a trusted client advisor 

• Build senior relationships with marketing, sales, and product stakeholders, earning trust through insight and impact.  

• Guide clients on where to focus, when to pivot, and how to unlock greater value from marketing.  

• Lead high-impact workshops and strategic conversations that align stakeholders and inspire action.  

Drive excellence across craft 

• Lead strategy across a mix of ABM programmes and broader brand/positioning projects. 

• Ensure all strategic outputs are clear and insight-driven, with a consistent standard of excellence. 

• Use data, insights, and emerging tools (including AI) to enhance strategic thinking and outputs. 

• Turn human insights into strategic direction that sparks powerful, resonant creative work.  

Enable integrated delivery 

• Partner with creative, media, data, and delivery teams to ensure strategy translates into impactful execution. 

• Develop clear, inspiring creative briefs that enable bold, distinctive, and effective ideas. 

• Champion integration across channels, disciplines, and markets to deliver cohesive programmes. 

• Provide clear direction and guardrails that empower teams to deliver their best work. 

Set strategic direction 

• Translate complex business challenges into clear, compelling, and actionable marketing strategies.  

• Set the direction for client engagements, ensuring every piece of work ladders up to meaningful commercial outcomes.  

• Challenge client briefs constructively, pushing for sharper thinking and stronger solutions.  

Be a trusted client advisor 

• Build senior relationships with marketing, sales, and product stakeholders, earning trust through insight and impact.  

• Guide clients on where to focus, when to pivot, and how to unlock greater value from marketing.  

• Lead high-impact workshops and strategic conversations that align stakeholders and inspire action.  

Drive excellence across craft 

• Lead strategy across a mix of ABM programmes and broader brand/positioning projects. 

• Ensure all strategic outputs are clear and insight-driven, with a consistent standard of excellence. 

• Use data, insights, and emerging tools (including AI) to enhance strategic thinking and outputs. 

• Turn human insights into strategic direction that sparks powerful, resonant creative work.  

Enable integrated delivery 

• Partner with creative, media, data, and delivery teams to ensure strategy translates into impactful execution. 

• Develop clear, inspiring creative briefs that enable bold, distinctive, and effective ideas. 

• Champion integration across channels, disciplines, and markets to deliver cohesive programmes. 

• Provide clear direction and guardrails that empower teams to deliver their best work. 

Deliver growth for clients and tmp 

• Identify opportunities to grow accounts through stronger strategy, new opportunities, and expanded scopes.  

• Contribute to new business and RFP responses where relevant.  

• Help clients see the value of strategic investment and its role in driving growth.  

• Identify opportunities to grow accounts through stronger strategy, new opportunities, and expanded scopes.  

• Contribute to new business and RFP responses where relevant.  

• Help clients see the value of strategic investment and its role in driving growth.