Responsibilities

• Partner with client marketing, digital and commercial teams to diagnose underlying business and marketing challenges, going beyond the brief to uncover what's really holding a brand or business unit back.
• Translate complex, sometimes competing business priorities into focusedstrategic questions the agency can rally around.
• Develop integrated strategies that bridge brand positioning, communications planning, content ecosystems and digital experience, always anchored in a clearly defined business problem.
• Design and lead workshops, working sessions and strategy sprints that bring together client stakeholders across functions, aligning teams around shared problems and co-creating solutions.
• Act as a trusted partner to senior client contacts (VP and C-suite level), building long-term relationships grounded in commercial understanding and strategic credibility.
• Foster collaboration across agency disciplines, brand, content, UX, data, social and CRM, ensuring strategic thinking is embedded from the outset, not bolted on after the fact.
• Contribute to new business efforts by shaping strategic approaches, leading pitches and demonstrating the value of integrated, insight-led thinking.
• Stay current with developments across the healthcare and animal health landscape, regulatory shifts, market dynamics, emerging technologies and evolving patient/consumer/veterinary expectations.

Requirements

• 10+ years’ experience working in a strategic/planning function, ideally within digital or creative agency
• Healthcare or pharmaceutical advertising experience is essential, if you've worked in animal health, even better
• A mastery of your strategic capability, and a basic understanding across other forms of strategy, including, but not limited to: Brand strategy & communications strategy, digital and CX
• Track record of turning complex business problems into inspiring and effective solutions.
• Ability to work independently and make things happen without a large team around you
• Flexibility for some AU time-zone cross over, some local US travel
• Genuine curiosity about culture, people, technology and what comes next

Preferred

• Strong work ethic driven by creative passion, positive energy and thrives on challenges, alongside a desire to grow with the company.

Benefits

• free crumpets.
• great cultural environment that allows you to grow and enjoy work.