Creative Strategist

London, UK (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own and drive data-informed creative strategy and client partnerships, turning briefs into measurable campaigns through workshops, high-impact concepts, and production planning.

  • Creative concept development: Translate client briefs into breakthrough hooks and ad concepts that resonate.
  • Client collaboration & workshops: Lead strategic workshops and maintain close client relationships as a creative partner.
  • Data-led storytelling: Produce performance-driven reporting and spot trends to optimize creative outcomes.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • As a Creative Strategist, you will be both the ideas factory and the engine room, developing and executing our clients’ creative strategies.
  • You will play a crucial role in delivering Studio retainers in the UK, focusing on ensuring our creative output is strategically aligned, data-informed, and delivers measurable business impact.
  • Client partnership: Confidently engaging with clients and fostering close relationships as a key creative partner.
  • Leading pitches & workshops: Pitching to new opportunities, sharing strategic ideas and leading Creative Workshops directly with clients.
  • Ad concept & development: Creating high-impact Ad Concepts & Hooks that cut-through the noise and resonate with target audiences.
  • Creative briefing & alignment: Crafting comprehensive Creative Briefs to guide new designs and ensure strategic alignment across all creative projects.
  • Production roadmaps: Maintaining Creative Roadmaps to inform production cycles and launch dates.
  • Data-led reporting: Developing and delivering Data-led Creative Reporting to provide actionable performance insights.
  • Creative gap audits: Conducting Creative Gap Audits to highlight weak spots in our creative output and define improvement areas.
  • Trendspotting: Leading Trendspotting initiatives to rapidly jump on consumer interest and cultural moments.

Requirements

  • Industry experience: 2-3 years’ experience in digital marketing, ecommerce or social media whether agency or brand-side.
  • Idea generation: Can demonstrate your ability to generate new creative concepts tailored to the client brief.
  • Communication & presentation: Excellent communication skills, confident presenting ideas, and skilled at engaging with client contacts.
  • Project management: Organised and equipped with project management skills to keep projects moving forward and other stakeholders delivering on their roles.
  • Social media & trends: You stay close to Social Media, understanding what’s trending and engaging formats we should try.
  • Data-driven mindset: Interest in using performance data to inform what we do next.
  • Proven portfolio: A portfolio showcasing successful, strategically-led campaigns.
  • Innovation & future focus: Naturally curious about the future of marketing, combining human creativity with a strong focus on technology and AI.
  • Note: This list reflects core role expectations across creative concepting, client work, and data-informed execution.

Preferred

  • Experience with AI deployment and creative technology solutions.

Benefits

  • Skilled colleagues: Collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry and be part of an ambitious team with deep expertise across all key digital disciplines. We are pushing forward fast with AI deployment and creative technology solutions - you will be at the forefront of the industry!
  • Interesting clients: Work with some of the biggest brands and most interesting clients. From large fashion retailers to D2C beauty brands, no brief is ever the same.
  • Career acceleration: Get individual career plans to influence your own professional path and contribute to shaping the company’s future.
  • Continuous development: A learning culture where people strive to become 1% better every day, supported by advanced training and knowledge sharing.
  • annual ‘s360 UK Weekender’ for hitting team goals.
  • surprise & delights, monthly team activities, charity events, celebrations
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s360

s360 is a leading European marketing and technology agency with more than 330 digital specialists across 10 offices in 8 countries: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, the UK, Spain, and Serbia. Our mission is to help brands and retailers grow through strategic advisory and hands-on execution across marketing, creativity, data, and technology disciplines. We work with ambitious brands and retailers such as Wrangler, Lee, New Era, Georg Jensen, Louis Poulsen, Victorinox, Nuxe, Power, JYSK, VidaXL, Sephora, XXL, BAUHAUS, Biltema, and many others. Together with our clients, we have won more than 60 industry awards, making us one of the most award-winning agencies in Europe.

Founded in 2011
Aarhus, Central Denmark Region, DNK
354 employees (153 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
19.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
35.7%
Direct
37.3%
Referral
14.2%
Social
8%
Paid
4.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~355

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
142 (40% of company)