Senior Strategy Partner

GroupM; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Strategy Partner to lead strategic relationships and new business initiatives. This pivotal role involves collaborating with clients to develop and execute digital change plans, leveraging insights from diverse data sources to create actionable strategies. You will be at the forefront of innovative communications, guiding clients through the complexities of consumer behavior and media channels. Join a dynamic team that values talent development and fosters a culture of collaboration and creativity, ensuring you make a significant impact in the ever-evolving media landscape.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in media/comms strategy, ideally global.
• Omnichannel experience with strong digital and eCommerce capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic relationships and new business efforts for clients.
• Create strategic recommendations that drive innovative communications.

Skills

Media/Comms Strategy

Digital and eCommerce Capabilities

Consumer Insight

Excellent Communication

Positive Provocation

Job description

Senior Strategy Partner Wavemaker Worldwide, London

Job Title: Senior Strategy Partner

Reporting to: Head of Strategy, Wavemaker Worldwide

About the role

The Senior Strategy Partner is a high-profile leadership role within Wavemaker Worldwide. The Senior Strategy Partner leads strategic relationships with our clients, spearheads new business efforts, and plays a pivotal role in the agency's product roadmap. This position also serves as a key link to the specialist experts in the Consulting Hub (Commerce, Data, Analytics, Technology, Precision, and Content), working collaboratively and leading projects to help clients develop and execute digital change plans across their business.

Core responsibilities

• Expert in data from multiple sources in innovative ways to find insights and articulate the story.
• Translate briefs and data into tasks for communications around the consumer purchase journey.
• Well-versed in consumer insight – understanding the why behind the what of people’s behavior and decision-making.
• Put audience-led thinking at the heart of our recommendations to clients, drawing on novel and disparate data sources to create comprehensible and actionable audience-led strategies.
• Experienced and knowledgeable across all media channels, from posters to sponsored stories, and clearly articulate their role and how they contribute to our clients’ growth.
• Lead conversations on the latest platform innovations and ensure our communication recommendations to clients leverage platform best practices.
• Able to work across multiple disciplines to provide a holistic POV to clients (e.g., trading, activation, commerce).
• Create strategic recommendations that drive innovative and effective use of communications (and measurable business outcomes).
• Lead conversations with external agencies that work with our clients to ensure Wavemaker is best represented at the table.
• Understand how our Consultancy Hub expertise and services can be organized and delivered to clients to improve their marketing performance and customer experiences.
• Excellent communicator in client meetings, pitches, and external events, presenting work and solutions with empathy, authority, and conviction.
• Lead thought leadership efforts within the agency.
• Role model positive provocation to the team, within the agency, and with clients.
• Lead new business efforts, coordinating and collaborating on the Wavemaker response to briefs and ensuring the agency presents a smart, evidenced, and provocative strategic voice.
• Work as part of the virtual product team, identifying opportunities for new products that advance the agency OS and planning system.

Your career at Wavemaker

• We are proud of our track record in investing in and retaining top talent – churn within the Strategy team is very low. As a strategist at Wavemaker, you will have access to WPP, GroupM, and Wavemaker career development resources, and we always hire people based on their long-term development potential.
• Every Wavemaker lives the agency behaviors every day.
• Contribute to agency initiatives, big and small, that help build a flourishing culture.
• Be a collaborator and provocateur all rolled into one, ensuring the agency stays on its toes and ahead of the curve.
• Actively use Wavemaker's goal-setting system to provide feedback to agency members and for your own personal development. Our approach to goal setting is tailored to your unique requirements and ambitions, ensuring you get the most out of your potential within the agency.

Location

Based in London, with travel. We embrace fully flexible working at Wavemaker Worldwide.

Person specification and requirements

• 12+ years of experience in media/comms strategy, ideally global.
• Omnichannel experience with strong digital and eCommerce capabilities.
• Excellent written and oral English capabilities.
• Driven personality able to sell a provocative POV/strategy to client EXCOs.
• Excellent thinker with a good level of pragmatism and sense of reality.
• Positive energy and sense of humor.

About Wavemaker

We believe there is always a better way to grow. We positively provoke growth for our clients by reshaping consumer decision-making and experiences through media, content, and technology. Fueled by the world’s most powerful consumer data, we understand where and how marketing can intervene decisively to help the world’s leading brands win more sales.

Our 7,200 people across 88 markets provoke growth through:

• Deep knowledge of our clients’ business.
• Confidence to challenge what’s gone before.
• The support to go further than we thought possible.

We are part of GroupM, WPP’s global media investment management company. Discover more on wavemakerglobal.com, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

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