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Oliver Budworth

Head of Strategy / Strategy Director (B2B, B2C)

On-demand
Basingstoke, GB
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Oliver

Driven and innovative marketing strategy specialist with 20 years’ experience in brand, communications, and digital bringing energy, rigour and innovative thinking to teams and projects alike.


Confident communicator, contrarian thinker and influential leader unafraid to challenge the status quo. Expertise in solving complex business challenges through creative strategy, customer experience consulting, brand redesign, market research, and innovative product launches.


Skilled presenter with experience working with C-suites on strategies for tackling complex business challenges.


Self-motivated, collaborative with a breadth of knowledge and strong generalist thinking who embraces opportunities with emotional intelligence, an eye for detail, and a commitment to delivering award-winning results.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Basingstoke (up to 50km)

Experience

  • MIRROR
    Marketing and Agency Strategy Consultant
    January 2023 - Today (3 years and 5 months)
    Marketing consultancy and growth strategy for scale-up agencies and brands, developing GTM propositions, service and organisational design, support with campaigns and pitches. Key achievements:
    • Developed new brand proposition for Giant Digital, then consolidated all agency services into new suite of agency products.
    • Led various pitches resulting in the agency winning their largest account (INEOS)
  • Gilroy
    Chief Strategy Officer
    January 2022 - January 2023 (1 year)
    Part of the C-Suite, helping the agency redesign its core offer through a rebrand and revised service offering. Key achievements:
    • Developed new strategy team and in partnership with COO, a new agency process for improved creativity across all work.
    • Oversaw multiple pitches resulting in new account wins including AtoS and AWS.
  • The Croc
    Head of Strategy
    November 2019 - January 2022 (2 years and 2 months)
    Developed the strategic practice and department at the agency, building a diverse team of specialists in brand, comms and customer experience strategy. Helped redefine the agency model including the creation of cross-departmental teams, implementing connections planning into the creative process, and adding more rigour around qualitative and quantitative research. Key achievements:
    • Led and overseen pitch-winning strategies for AWS, Cisco contributing to £multi million growth in the business.
    • Launched Strategy School – a 10-week programme to teach strategic fundamentals to employees in other departments in the agency
    • Won multiple awards (creative, CX) for strategic work on ServiceNow.

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Education

  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
    Portsmouth University
    2000
    BSc (Hons) degree in Computer Science.
  • Basingstoke:
    Queen Mary's college
    1997
    Basingstoke:

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