Responsibilities

• Thought leadership and shaping strategic thinking and decision making across your accounts & the financial services portfolio.
• Drive creative excellence through sharp insights, inspiring briefings and productive collaboration with creative teams.
• The ability to develop brand strategies and propositions; creative briefs; client presentations; audience profiles; customer journeys; communications and channel strategies.
• Writing decks with a good narrative.
• Communications planning.
• Taking a big-picture view of your clients’ challenges; considering all factors that might affect their brand and communications strategy and developing strategic recommendations to drive our clients’ businesses forward.
• Developing and substantiating a strong point of view, presenting with confidence and credibility, being able to take internal and external audiences on a journey.
• Preparing and facilitating client planning sessions and strategy workshops.
• Designing, commissioning and managing research to support the development of strategy and creative work.
• Defining measures of success for initiatives and evaluating the impact of our work over time.

Requirements

• The right attitude; an ambition to make great work.
• Clarity of thinking.
• Collaborative with all departments and levels.
• Pushing for very high standards both strategically and creatively.
• Always bringing a point of view to the room.
• Comfortable engaging in constructive discussions and offering fresh perspectives.
• Building strong relationships with other departments within their agency and, of course with key clients.
• Thorough knowledge of all aspects of the planning craft in order to be able to initiate and complete all sorts of planning projects from marketing strategy to communications development and evaluation.
• Able to interpret all forms of evaluation.
• Proven experience. Ideally in retail and financial services with significant experience of integrated planning in an agency environment
• Must be fully conversant with digital channels (without necessarily being a digital specialist)
• Must be a strong communicator (verbally and in written work) who is passionate about creative product and who can clearly present ideas to internal and external audiences.
• Must be flexible, self-motivated, capable of managing competing priorities while maintaining quality and deliver to deadlines.
• High levels of proactivity, quality control and personal curiosity are essential in this largely self-directed role working closely with agency leadership.

Benefits

• 25 days’ holiday, increasing to 29 after 2 years’ service + Plus Bank Holidays
• Company pension scheme, with enhanced Employer contributions after 1 years’ service
• Medical Cash Plan – including employee assist programme, contributions to dental, optical, physio etc.
• Employee Discount Scheme – an online platform for all staff offering a variety of discounts at various shopping outlets, gyms etc
• Electric Car Purchase Scheme, via Salary Sacrifice
• Outstanding training and progression, including access to LinkedIn Learning and The Mission Group Learning Management System
• Employee referral scheme
• Regular staff social events
• Company Christmas closure
• Long service awards
• Cycle To Work scheme
• Mission Share Scheme
• Happy to talk flexible working.