Junior Strategist

**Junior Strategist Job Description**:
As a Junior Strategist at Campfire, you'll play a key role in supporting the Strategy team by delivering insights, conducting research, and shaping strategic recommendations for our clients. You'll work closely with the Strategy team, Creative Strategy, Client Services and delivery teams to ensure strategies are developed, effectively handed over, and continuously refined for maximum impact.

**Responsibilities** (The things we do)**:
As a Junior Strategist, you’ll support the team across research, insights, and strategy development to help create best-in-class strategies for new and existing clients.

**As a Junior Strategist, you will**:

- Conduct research & analysis independently, monitoring social trends, consumer behaviour, and competitor activity via social listening and research tools such as GlobalWebIndex.
- Identify key findings and insights to develop actionable recommendations for clients, drawing out the “why” behind the “what”.
- Stay informed on industry developments, emerging technologies, and shifts in digital marketing to continuously improve insights and recommendations.
- Support strategy development by gathering insights that shape campaign direction.
- Assist in briefing execution teams, ensuring strategy is clearly communicated and aligned with campaign goals.
- Monitor strategy performance, proactively identifying gaps and optimisation opportunities.
- Assist in strategy check-ins with cross-functional teams, ensuring strategic plans are executed, measured, and optimised where necessary.
- Collaborate with teams across the agency, ensuring strategies are creatively compelling and aligned with campaign execution.
- Work alongside senior strategists to address key insights and develop robust strategies.
- Develop a strong understanding of our clients and their industries, ensuring strategy is informed, relevant, and impactful.
- Participate in client meetings, assisting senior members in communicating insights and recommendations.
- Ensure client-facing documents maintain a high standard of accuracy and quality.
- Assist in quality-checking and reviewing creative work to ensure it aligns with client requests and expectations.
- Assist in preparing pitch decks, gathering data, and contributing innovative ideas to support new business efforts.

**Behaviours** (The style we do these things in)**:
**Description**

At Campfire, we strive for excellence across everything we do—our processes, results, and service. A world-class strategy team isn’t just about delivering great work, it’s about creating repeatable frameworks, efficient collaboration, and meaningful impact.

How this translates in this role:

- You are **inquisitive**, always seeking the ‘why’ behind the ‘what’ and using data to strengthen strategic recommendations
- You operate with **efficiency and organisation,** understanding the importance of timely client delivery and proactively identifying areas for process improvement.
- You take on tasks with **enthusiasm and positivity,**even when they push you outside your comfort zone.
- You demonstrate **drive and ambition**, looking for ways to go beyond expectations and add additional value where possible.
- You are eager to **learn, evolve, and share knowledge,** continuously seeking innovation and new ways to elevate our client strategies.
- You **collaborate** across teams, ensuring strategy is clearly communicated and seamlessly integrated into execution.

**Communications** (The things we say)**:
We are open, honest, and transparent. We communicate with our colleagues effectively to build trust and loyalty within Campfire. Our nonverbal communication is approachable, appropriate and friendly - we don’t just speak with our words, we speak with our body language. We’re experts in our industry and passionate about what we do. When communicating with our clients, we lead with professionalism and expertise. Whether communicating with our peers, our managers, or our direct reports, we approach conversations equally.
- You should be approachable and collaborative, ensuring openness both with clients and within the agency
- Ensure all communication is solution-led, offering your perspective and adding valuable insights.