Senior Strategist

**Senior Strategist**
London (with hybrid working)
**About Us**
For over 30 years, we’ve been helping our clients create memorable EXPERIENCES, drive business results to amplify PERFORMANCE, innovate with technology to drive TRANSFORMATION and nurture and connect brands with consumers to build genuine COMMUNITIES.
Now, we’re looking for a Senior Strategist to join our growing team in London on a permanent, full-time basis.
**The Benefits**:

- Salary of £45,000 - £55,000 per annum DOE
- 23 days’ holiday plus Bank Holidays (increasing with length of service)
- Health insurance
- Pension scheme
- Profit share
- Cycle to work scheme
- Duvet day
- A welcoming and friendly office environment
- Computer scheme - make savings on IT equipment through a government-backed salary exchange scheme
This is an exceptional opportunity for an experienced and talented strategist or planner to join our team and help shape the marketing strategy for one of the world’s most iconic brands.
Working on one of our biggest accounts, you will have the chance to get involved in a range of exciting and innovative projects whilst helping us continue to deliver award-winning campaigns and initiatives.
What’s more, we believe that a healthy work/life balance is key to keeping our people happy, creative and productive and offer an array of great benefits and social events that bring the whole company together.
So, if you are ready to help our team and clients to think bigger through insight and creativity, we want to hear from you
**The Role**
As a Senior Strategist, you will work on one of our biggest accounts, a leading name in the technology and financial services sector.
In this key role, you will collaborate with the wider team and develop innovative marketing strategies to support our client’s growth. Acting as their strategic ‘go to’ person, you will work across their brand, product, consumer comms, sponsorship, events,and loyalty programmes.
Specifically, you will:

- Ensure our client stays ahead of the curve on cultural and/or social trends through well-considered qualitative and quantitative research
- Work with internal insight and information teams to design and commission research
- Forge close working relationships with our client’s network of preferred agencies
- Lead aspects of new business pitches
- Support our other clients in the fashion, lifestyle, automotive, music and technology sectors
- Attend client meetings
**About You**
To join us as a Senior Strategist, you will need:

- At least four years’ experience as a planner and/or strategist
- Experience in a strategic role working on creative, channel, content, digital or products
- Experience in brand and comms planning, ideally with global brands
- The ability to articulate creatively ambitious work and the resilience to defend it
- To be comfortable turning data and research into actionable insight
- An excellent grounding in the fundamentals of effective marketing, behavioural science and evaluation
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- The enthusiasm to find insights and inspiration in every niche
Other organisations may call this role Senior Planner, Marketing Strategist, Marketing Planner, Brand Strategist, Marketing Strategy Manager, Marketing Campaign Manager, Marketing Account Manager, or Campaign Manager.
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