Head of Strategy, UK

UK (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level12+ years expFull time

Posted 1 month ago

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Job Summary

Own high-level media strategy for top clients by turning data into actionable insights and driving cross-channel growth through challenger plans and rigorous measurement.

  • Diagnose root causes and reframing briefs to unlock inevitable media and creative execution.
  • Integrate consumer journeys across channels with strong storytelling and evidence-led recommendations.
  • Set mid-term strategic vision that ties to revenue, brand lift, and media effectiveness.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • In this role you’ll develop innovative, challenger media strategies across a portfolio of high-value clients. You’ll sit in the client team, but be part of the growing strategy community at Brainlabs. With a deep understanding of your clients and craft, you’ll set the strategic vision and build mid-term strategic plans that deliver real business performance growth for clients. You’ll know how to drive marketing transformation, diagnose brand challenges effectively use data insights and optimise marketing/media as a driver for revenue and brand growth and media effectiveness.
  • You’ll act as the ā€˜root cause’ diagnostician of our new business and existing client challenges, never taking their brief at face value
  • You’ll be the architect of the ā€˜aha’ insights, creating moments where you reframe the problem so brilliantly that the subsequent media and creative execution is inevitable
  • You’ll be a seamless integrator, demonstrating extreme empathy for the consumer's journey, considering the role for each channel and placement
  • You’ll be an expert causal linked, providing bullet proof evidence for your recommendation and be able to anticipate the measurement needed to deliver proof post activation.
  • You’ll lead the end to end storytelling of every response you’re involved in.
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Brainlabs

3.5 Glassdoor

Hi! We're Brainlabs, an integrated media agency on a mission to make marketing more scientific. We built Brainlabs borrowing the best and most applicable parts of the scientific approach. We hired Smart people (The Brains) to develop breakthrough hypotheses, then put every idea through proper experimental conditions using our validation engine (the Labs).We pioneered the use of AI in advertising, which combined with the scientific approach, has propelled us to scale from a single employee to over 1,000 team members, becoming one of the fastest-growing independent media agencies globally. Today, we serve as a media agency of record for results-driven advertisers with total media spend ranging from $10M-$250M—companies like Capital One, Bozzuto, UNICEF USA, and Hornblower Group.

Founded in 2012
New York, New York, USA
1K employees (304 in marketing)
65% recommend to a friend
78% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
34.8K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
44.6%
Direct
41.5%
Referral
8.8%
Social
3.7%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
284 (27% of company)
Median Career Experience
10 years
Median Tenure
2.7 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

Funding

Last Raise
Private Equity, 2 years ago

Funding History

  • Sep 2023
    Private Equity
  • Mar 2019
    Private Equity

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