Senior Strategist

Plano, TX (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior LevelFull time

Posted 5 months ago

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Job Summary

Lead strategic research and storytelling for Samsung-focused brand work, combining data with narrative to shape campaigns.

  • Own primary/secondary research and data-backed story creation for client-ready insights.
  • Must-have: Proficiency with MRI-Simmons, GWI, and Resonate to uncover actionable insights.
  • Standout: Strong presentation of strategies to clients and cross-functional teams.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Conduct Primary and Secondary Research: Proactively use research tools such as MRI-Simmons, GWI, and Resonate to gather both qualitative and quantitative data.
  • Demonstrate proficiency in primary research methodologies, including writing surveys, conducting interviews and moderating focus groups. Analyzing data to uncover valuable insights.
  • Create Compelling, Data-Backed Stories with Actionable Insights: Utilize research and insights to create persuasive and engaging narratives that support your strategic recommendations, ensuring they’re both impactful and aligned with business objectives.
  • Become a Brand Expert: Deeply understand Samsung's product portfolio, competitive landscape, and audience segments.
  • Champion the consumer: Develop detailed audience profiles, segmentation frameworks, and communication strategies grounded in empathy and cultural awareness.
  • Craft Effective Strategies: Develop and refine strategies that align with business objectives, product positioning, brand messaging and inspire creative teams.
  • Evaluate Creative Work: Provide clear, rational feedback to strengthen creative outputs.
  • Present with confidence: Communicate strategic thinking clearly and persuasively to clients and internal teams, ensuring ideas are understood, bought in, and acted upon.
  • Support new business growth: Contribute to pitch strategy and presentations, helping expand the agency’s portfolio through strategic storytelling and insight-driven thinking.

Requirements

  • A Bachelor’s degree in social sciences, advertising, and related fields preferred.
  • Agency Experience: 4+ years in an integrated advertising agency or fast-paced brand experience.
  • Strategic Experience: 2+ years in building marketing communication strategies for brands.
  • Proficiency with audience data tools (MRI-Simmons, GWI, Resonate) and comfort working with analytics to uncover insights.
  • Strong understanding of how to build consumer journeys, message hierarchies, and channel frameworks.
  • Excellent presentation and storytelling skills, with the ability to synthesize complexity into clarity.
  • A collaborative, team-first mindset and passion for creating culture-shaping work.
  • A positive, solutions-focused approach and comfort navigating ambiguity.
  • Flexibility for occasional travel, extended hours, and weekend work as needed.
  • Must be located in or willing to relocate to the area.
  • Eager to work in a hybrid office environment with a minimum of 2 days in-office (Tuesdays & Thursdays) and the remaining 3 days optional for remote.
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Cheil India

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Cheil India is one of the country's top 5 advertising agency networks and serves as the regional headquarters for Cheil Worldwide in South-West Asia. Cheil India is one of the fastest-growing communication networks in the region. The agency has myriad capabilities across ATL, Digital, Brand Activation, and Retail Marketing which ensures that they are one of the few agencies to provide clients with truly integrated marketing solutions offering. Cheil India is part of Cheil Worldwide, Korea's leading advertising and marketing network. Headquartered in Seoul, Cheil Worldwide is one of the fastest growing agency networks in the world and is the 11th largest agency group in the world by revenue (Ad Age, 2022). It operates in 45 countries with more than 6500 employees. Cheil and its affiliates including Barbarian, BMB, Cheil Centrade, Cheil PengTai, ColourData, Experience Commerce, Iris, McKinney and One RX have won major international awards including Cannes Lions, CLIOs, Spikes Asia, and others.

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