Senior Strategist

We are looking for an ambitious senior strategist to join our London team to help us to help clients transform their social thinking.

Know your flywheel from your funnel? Spot an insight in and amongst the observations? Tuned into the latest platform developments? Like to find the story in the data? Let’s chat

This role offers scope to drive strategy briefs and manage these autonomously for cutting edge, global brands. This is a fantastic opportunity to work with some of the world's biggest brands such as Amazon, Google, Ancestry, Microsoft, Diageo and North Face.

Please note, this is a 6-month Fixed Term Contract (FTC).

Role

As a Senior Strategist. you will be responsible for leading, developing & maintaining effective social communications strategies for our clients. This will involve developing a deep understanding of our clients’ business goals, marketing strategies and processes, partnering with them to identify how our work will drive innovative and transformative solutions that support their needs and help them to succeed.
You will be confident in leading client comms and becoming a trusted peer for senior clients. You will ensure the work delivered for clients is constantly aligned to the vision. You will work autonomously and in partnership with client leads, insights & community heads. You will be comfortable undertaking research and analysis that underpins
your recommendations with insight.

You will work closely with the insights function to steer and undertake audits that act as the foundations for strategy.
You will work closely with the community function to ensure any strategic recommendations can be implemented effectively. You will ensure that measurement is meaningful by recommending core and bespoke metrics to track to help us to optimise and evolve strategic recommendations over time. You will be commercially minded, working with the Function Lead to help drive growth for the function, productise strategy, evolve and develop the
function proposition and maintain/grow beyond target utilisation levels.

Responsibilities

• Using research and data to deliver insights that fuel the creative process across the agency

• Working with insights team on audits, strategy and reporting.
• Working with community on implementation design.
• Delivering strategic recommendations across social and content strategy using relevant frameworks.
• Briefing ideation team with ideation briefs and stimulus you have created.
• Governance.
• Briefing Insights team on measurement and helping to shape meaningful and actionable narratives.

This job description is not intended to cover everything that will be expected of you but rather to act as a guide and you maybe required to get involved in other and reasonable ad hoc projects

• Social first strategy experience and a background creating social media /digital campaigns
• Ability to generate new ideas for improving the agency’s delivery of work
• Ability to work effectively with the Creative department
• Demonstrable experience and vision in social & digital
• Strong analytical skills
• 8+ years’ agency experience
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Passionate, energetic and confident
• Proactive: self-motivated
• Team-player: flexible and challenging
• Marketing or media related degree or equivalent experience.

About 1000heads

1000heads is a social transformation company. We help global brands adapt to rapid and continual shifts in media, technology and culture. The company delivers social-first data, insights, strategic consultancy and creative services to clients around the world including Google, Intel, Diageo, Wella Professionals, Kia, Salomon and The North Face. 1000heads has offices around the world in New York City, Los Angeles, London, Berlin, Sydney and Melbourne.

1000heads is an Equal Opportunities Employer, we are passionately committed to working together to promote an inclusive environment which celebrates and promotes diversity. We are committed to our belief that diversity in our team generates better and bolder ideas, creativity, understanding and respect. We welcome applicants irrespective of age, sex, race, ethnicity, disability and other factors that have no bearing on an individual’s ability to perform their job.

For more information on 1000heads, visit www.1000heads.com.

• Additional holiday day for each year of service, up to 25 days
• Additional festive shutdown period between Christmas and New Years period
• Subsidised gym membership
• Private Medical Cover
• Company Pension Scheme
• Personal development fund
• Cycle to work scheme
• Regular company socials/away days, free Thursday breakfasts and drinks
• Flexible working, hybrid 2-3 office days per week
• Plus other cool perks