Senior Strategy Partner

4 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Dentsu Full time

Job Title:
Senior Strategy Partner

Job Description:

Introduction

Dentsu is an integrated growth and transformation partner to the world's leading organizations. Founded in 1901 in Tokyo, Japan, and now present in over 145 countries and regions, it has a proven track record of nurturing and developing innovations, combining the talents of its global network of leadership brands to develop impactful and integrated growth solutions for clients. Dentsu delivers end-to-end experience transformation (EX) by integrating its services across Media, CXM and Creative, while its business transformation (BX) mindset pushes the boundaries of transformation and sustainable growth for brands, people and society.

Carat builds modern businesses in media around the people that matter. Modern businesses are built in media, around people. This is what we do. For scaled brands, Carat is the gateway to dentsu. With our bespoke approach to client partnerships, we innovate to drive both immediate performance and longer-term transformation. We achieve this in three unique ways: 1. We understand people better than anyone else, which helps us pinpoint growth audiences and move brands at people speed 2. We combine media, creative, and customer experience to design end-to-end experiences that build brand equity, create value for communities, drive commerce outcomes, and inspire loyalty 3. We pioneer next-gen media outcomes that build modern brands, increase brand power, and benefit society We don't sit back. We pioneer in media, positively advocating for people, business and society in everything that we do

We're hiring for a Senior Strategy Partner as part of Carat in London.

Purpose of the Role

The Carat strategy team combines craft skills, creative problem solving, and a diverse range of experience to find and address the challenges that we believe hold our clients back from growing as fast and as profitably as they should.

All clients in our portfolio have a diverse geographic footprint, combine both traditional and non-traditional growth markets, and boast strong strategic talent that love collaborating on a wide range of projects.

The Senior Strategy Partner is responsible for developing and delivering brilliant cross-disciplinary solutions that elevate the role of media on the business agenda of the clients in their portfolio, for growing the depth and breadth of Carat's partnership with those clients, for managing and developing the strategic talent in their village, for leading strategy on new business pitches, and for supporting the Head of Strategy in setting and delivering the strategy agenda for the agency.

Key Responsibilities

  • Forging strong relationships with senior global clients, helping them identify and understand the key issues facing their business
  • Being vocal and collaborative with clients (having an informed opinion), sharing insight into the changing media landscape, and demonstrating Carat's role within an integrated communication mix
  • Leveraging econometrics, business analytics and past campaign/competitive learnings to develop, refine and deliver media implementation guidelines
  • Driving excellent and appropriate use of insights & planning tools on client briefs to drive business-outcome-focussed planning across the media ecosystem
  • Developing creative ideas, media partnerships and innovations based on the communications strategy, and working with various Dentsu specialisms & teams
  • Developing responses & guidance to strategic and campaign briefs from global clients to ensure best in class thinking & global consistency
  • Building a deep understanding of dentsu's strengths, products, and product pipeline to identify incremental growth opportunities for our business as we develop strategic direction for the client
  • Creating and driving a thought leadership agenda that combines the latest and greatest in marketing theory with real-world application and commercial impact
  • Coaching and guiding junior team members on all aspects of planning and strategy
  • Leading strategy on new business pitch responses for Carat as well as the dentsu media service line
  • Own and drive Carat's strategy training agenda, leveraging the best of dentsu where appropriate and creating from scratch where deemed necessary
  • Work with head of strategy to codify strategy team structure, job specs, competency frameworks, and career progression path

Qualifications + Skills

  • Ability to work with multiple stakeholders across companies, cultures and countries to drive your agenda through influence
  • Strong skills in persuasion and selling of your ideas and strategies to new and existing clients
  • Skilled in mentoring and developing individuals from a wide variety of disciplines, cultures and backgrounds.
  • Excellent ability and proven track record of working with clients at a senior level to advise on the strategic direction of their communications and its ability to deliver business value
  • Best in class strategic thinking with an ability to communicate (written & verbal) strategic and innovative ideas with clarity and simplicity
  • Strong understanding of the role of media in delivering business value for modern brands • Cultural awareness, analytical skills, and relentless curiosity
  • Working knowledge of media and communications planning tools and processes
  • Strong understanding of multiple sources for market, consumer and media intelligence
  • Proven track record of identifying and developing insights, measurement and evaluation projects
  • Experience developing marketing and communications strategies for multi market clients, with a proven ability to marshal multiple countries behind your strategies, driving consistency with local nuances

Inclusion and Diversity

Our diverse and inclusive culture enables our employees to bring their whole selves to work and be proud of doing so. For us, this is the foundation for great innovation which, in turn, generates better outcomes for our people, partners and communities. This is why we encourage applications from people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures.

We are happy to discuss flexible and agile approaches to working for all our roles - we can't promise we will be able to offer you everything you want or need but we do promise to discuss it with you openly and honestly. If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our recruitment teams.

Location:
London

Brand:
Global Carat

Time Type:
Full time

Contract Type:
Permanent

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