SENIOR COMMUNICATIONS STRATEGIST
WE'RE LOOKING FOR
A CRITICAL THOUGHT PARTNER, PROGRESSIVE AND INSPIRATIONAL
This is a role for a sharp and seasoned strategist with a global outlook — someone who sees the whole picture and can connect the dots between a brand’s ambitions, cultural relevance, and content and campaign output. You’ll play a defining role in shaping brand narratives and 360 communications ecosystems that span continents, and audiences, and will have a wealth of experience in this. Working closely with our strategists, designers, writers and the Director of Comms, you’ll ensure our creative vision translates powerfully across every platform and touchpoint — from global campaign moments to everyday storytelling. You’ll also act as a critical thought partner to clients: driving ideas, challenging conventions and helping them think bigger — about their role, their reach, and their impact in culture. Ultimately, you’re a key driver in helping brand define and drive their relevancy desirability and provide the results and success metrics required for diverse briefs.
RESPONSIBILITIES
— Providing leading-edge thinking from the world around us, this role will develop and drive cut-through communication strategies from content and social, to GTM launch and rebrand campaigns
— Be the strategic storytelling lead on key projects; leading and delivering a robust audit and identifying the areas of opportunity at the start of a dedicated comms brief or as a composite part of a larger brand marketing project
— Act as an internal consultant for the creative team helping to provide a broader, more considered and communication viewpoint on all/any projects that are led by Senior Designers.
— Lead a full breadth of communication strategy projects (i.e. content, social, performance marketing GTM, 360, partnership, and influencer) across multiple industries.
— Identify revenue opportunities from existing clients and from the application of new methodologies.
— Contribute to a highly collaborative and energised atmosphere in which collaboration and positive disruption are encouraged.
— Build trusted relationships with clients and a strong understanding of the client’s culture.
— Keep performance metrics and ROI in mind and be able to integrate these into your project work both from the outset and at project wrap
— Pull in commercially viable and culturally significant references for ideation
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
— A desire to think and search outside of the box, both creatively and strategically
— Proven ability to manage multiple projects and meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
— Demonstrate confidence with helping to coach designers on how they can add more commerciality in either the creative concept or how it is presented to the client.
— Have knowledge of working within a design-led agency environment and utilise experience built across a broad range of sectors.
— Have a familiarity with comms data, research and trends, and processing provided reports from clients, whilst balancing campaign analytics
— A desire to think and search outside of the box.
— Excellent presentation skills, with the ability to persuasively and effectively communicate ideas and concepts
— Execution of campaigns and content across owned channels with a strong background in reporting, always bearing in mind business objectives and markers of success
— Building presentation decks
— Ability to manage multiple stakeholders, both internally and externally and demonstrate the value that communications strategy will bring.
— Comfortable working with and briefing a range of creatives including designers, photographers, videographers, producers, copywriters
SOUND LIKE YOU?
Email your CV to [email protected] with Senior Communications Strategist in the title.