Associate Strategy Director - London, United Kingdom - Knewin

Description

A Strategist at Re acts as strategic contributor on client engagements, providing strategic thinking and insights into a brand, their customers, category and culture.

The role supports the clients leads as well as other team members working on briefs and projects that unlock new customer value for our clients.

As part of your role, you will take responsibility for coordinating and sharing research across the agency team and group more broadly. Lead key phases of projects where relevant e.g. discovery andbrand strategy phases of work.

What you'll do:

STRATEGIC PRODUCT – 85%

Your role in inspiring and delivering the strategic product; the thinking and its effectiveness

• Lead and deliver end-to-end brand and experience strategies for clients across variousindustries/sectors working alongside senior leaders of the business
  
  • Proactively grow your personal T-specialism in order to offer and grow client base
  
  • Play an active role in helping to shape brilliant strategic solutions - through inspiration, integrationof new and innovative thinking and an ability to bring out the best in creative teams

PEOPLE – 5%

The part you play in leading and mentoring the talent within the team, agency and the broadergroup. The role you play in contributing to the team culture.

• Share your strategic skills, insights and thought-leadership with the wider agency, as part ofinternal learning and development and in an informal nature on your accounts
  
  • Help the team in inspiring the agency with latest insights, trends and areas of thought-leadership;across company, category, customer, culture and channel insights
  
  • Contributing in a way that supports an inclusive culture which embraces diversity of thought.

PARTNERS – 5%

The role you play in building strong and enduring relationships with our clients and partners inthe M&C Saatchi Group

• Become a trusted partner to your day-to-day clients and your account management and creativeteams internally
  
  • Act as the point person for our research and trend tools, building relationships with partners andhelping to keep the team abreast of latest features

PROFIT – 5%

Entrepreneurial and commercial thinking. Your accountability for actively helping our agencymake money; organically and through new business and new offerings.

• Identify opportunities for growth on your accounts and support on new business pitches when required

What you'll do:

• Extensive brand strategy experience
• Strong analytical skills: the ability to digest information and to identify insights and opportunities
• Strong presentation: clear and compelling presenting, competent
• Strong written / communication skills: strategy is words
• Collaborative mindset
• Curiosity
• Kindness

About Re:

We're Re, a global brand-led design and experience business and part of the M&C Saatchi Group.We create brands that connect with culture, customers and colleagues. We help our partners developa story they can tell, tools they can use, and experiences that engage people in their world. We're ateam of design thinkers and makers across the UK, the Nordics, Australia and the UAE.

Re is testing and building an agile global model, where we intend to service both local clients (inpartnership with M&C Saatchi Group capabilities) as well as targeting re-specific global clients, wherewe intend to draw on capabilities and resources from across the various markets based on thespecific needs of the client or the assignment.

ABOUT M&C SAATCHI GROUP

M&C Saatchi Group is a creative company that connects specialist expertise, fuelled by data, technology, and culture, to help clients navigate, create, and lead meaningful change. The Group operates across five core divisions: Connected Creativity; Passion Marketing; Global & Social Issues; Brand, Experience & Innovation; and Performance Media. Headquartered in London, operations span 23 countries with major hubs in the UK, Europe, US, Middle East & Africa, Asia and Australia. M&C Saatchi Group's two principles, Diversity of Thought and Brutal Simplicity of Thought, guide how they build teams and solve problems.

The M&C Saatchi Group UK has pledged its commitment to create a company that values difference, with an inclusive culture brought to life through equity. As part of this, M&C Saatchi Group continues to be an Equal Opportunity Employer which does not and shall not discriminate, celebrates diversity and bases all hiring and promotion decisions solely on merit, without regard for any personal characteristics.

All employee information is kept confidential according to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Applications close 10th May 2024. NO RECRUITMENT AGENCIES.

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