Senior Strategist, Global Influencer Practice

**Senior Strateg**ist**,**
**Global **Influencer Practice**

**Job title**:Senior Strategist**, **Global Influencer Practice**:
**Group: Mindshare Worldwide**:
**Client**:Unilever**:
**Reports to**:Director, Global Influencer Practice** Lead**:
Mindshare is global media agency designed to make media exciting, fun and life changing. For the last 20 years our values of Speed, Teamwork and Provocation have guided our 10,000 people who work with some of the world’s best brands and companies. Located in 116 offices across 86 countries, we are the largest media agency in GroupM, WPP’s media investment management arm, which is the #1 media holding group globally. Mindshare Worldwide is the headquarters for Mindshare based in London. We are a team of 400+ people, co-ordinating media campaigns for our global clients.

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**What We Can Offer You**:
At Mindshare Worldwide, we offer a competitive salary package, with 25 days holiday increasing with service to a maximum of 30 days, with the option to buy an extra 5 days per year. We also have an enhanced pension scheme, Bupa healthcare, a monthly wellbeing fund and early finishes on a Friday during summer. These are just some of the great benefits we offer.

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**The Role**:
We are seeking a Senior Strategist within the Global Influencer Practice team at Mindshare WW. As Senior Strategist, you will play a key role in the continuous development of influencer practice across the Unilever account. This role will consult across Unilever’s global brands, prodominently focusing on 3 Business Groups: Nutrition (Knorr, Hellmann’s, Vegetarian Butcher), Beauty & Wellbeing (Dove, Sunsilk, Vaseline, Liquid IV) and Ice Cream (Magnum, Wall’s, Cornetto). It will also cover ongoing support for other functions across the Unilever business (e.g. media, local market, consumer insights, etc.).

Under the guidance of the Influencer Practice Lead this role will focus on delivering first-class and innovative client solutions. You will work as an influencer specialist to consult and manage leading strategic work, inform best-practice and provide some operational / activation support. You will be responsible for delivering effective influencer strategies that deliver against objectives and excel expectations.

You will have proven experience and success in designing, executing and optimising large scale influencer campaigns. Your skills in leading and inspiring future thinking communications strategy will champion influencer opportunities within a global and multi-market environment.

Your passion for influencer marketing will be integral and you will be able to articulate this passion and your concepts effectively with a range of stakeholders. Your understanding will cover Organic, Paid and Earned influencer activations from awareness through to performance-based campaigns, including commerce and livestream integrations.

**Essential Criteria**:

- Passion for Influencer Marketing
- Minimum 4 years experience in influencer agency/ influencer campaign-based role
- Exceptional experience with influencer campaign strategy, execution and measurement.
- Understanding and experience executing influencer assets via paid social platforms, including but not limited to Meta, TikTok, YouTube, Google, Twitter, Snapchat.

General skills include:

- Ability to draw clear insights and implications for media and influencer responses (i.e. connecting the outputs of different insight systems successfully)
- Experience building influencer insights and best practice content
- Demonstrate a passion for influencer and understanding of what makes a great influencer marketing campaign, tangibly showcasing excellence in planning craft.
- You are excited to work as part of a team; immediate and wider department. Leading by example th