Responsibilities

• Drive creative excellence through sharp insights, inspiring briefings and productive collaboration with creative teams.
• Thought leadership and shaping strategic thinking and decision making across your accounts.
• 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 authority, 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 at least c.4 years experience of integrated planning in an agency environment

Benefits

• In return, you will play a pivotal role in our first-class, experienced and supportive team, who work hard, but also like to have fun.
• The position will be office-based, min 3 days per week.
• Inclusion Matters
• We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Committed (Level 1) Employer. That means we’ve pledged to make our recruitment process accessible and inclusive, promote our roles widely, and offer interviews to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria. We also anticipate and provide reasonable adjustments where needed because supporting every candidate matters.
• If you need any adjustments to take part in the process, just let us know. We are here to help.
• Over 900 people, 24 locations, 3 continents, and 1 big difference.