Strategist

Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the end-to-end strategy input for cycling/ outdoors brands, turning data-driven insights into actionable briefs and collaborative campaigns that improve brand position, media plans, and cross-discipline execution.

  • Strategy and Planning: Develop integrated communications plans and drive brand positioning across creative, PR, and media channels.
  • Insight & Briefing: Translate research, datasets, and expert networks into strategic recommendations for multiple disciplines.
  • Collaboration & Measurement: Create discipline briefs and define effectiveness metrics while evolving the strategic toolbox.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Strategy and planning. Support strategy and planning on key accounts and develop new communications plans for a wide range of cycling brands, feeding into brand positioning, creative campaigns, PR, and media plans.
  • Insight development. Tap into our research team, unique data sets and expert network to uncover insights into audiences and markets that guide strategic recommendations.
  • Briefing and collaboration. Take an active role in developing new creative, PR, media, and social plans. You will write and deliver discipline-specific briefs and help teams from different disciplines collaborate to create combined solutions.
  • Effectiveness and evolution. Establish measures for effectiveness and coordinate analysis for your campaigns. You will also support the Head of Strategy & Research in evolving and adding to our "strategic toolbox".

Requirements

  • 2 - 4 years experience within an agency strategy or planning role or the equivalent experience
  • Experience using a range of insight sources and data types to feed into plans
  • Comfortable with data and technology; able to work with figures/spreadsheets; willing to integrate AI tools into workflow
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SHIFT Active Media

SHIFT Active Media, Data Driven Marketing Experts For Cycling And The Great Outdoors 🚴🏼♀️ 🏔️ 🌲 Data | Consultancy | MarketingOur multi-skilled, multi-talented team blends decades of cycling expertise and international media relationships, with blue chip agency experience and knowhow. Our work is powered by unique research, unrivalled market intelligence and genuine passion for all things bikes and the great outdoors. It’s this combination that made us the agency partner of choice for Rapha, Zwift, fizik, YT, Brompton, Kask and many other fantastic cycling and outdoor brands.

Founded in 2010
Bath, England, GBR
36 employees (21 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
5.2K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$2
Traffic Source Mix
Search
54.5%
Direct
32.8%
Referral
6.3%
Social
5.6%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~36

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
18 (50% of company)