Senior Creative Strategist

Soar With Us; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading performance creative agency in Birmingham is seeking a Senior Creative Strategist to lead strategy for high-value e-commerce clients. In this role, you will drive growth, set creative standards, and mentor colleagues while overseeing all creative direction. The ideal candidate has strong analytical skills and over 5 years in creative strategy or performance creative. The position offers a hybrid work model and comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

27 days holiday + your birthday off

Hybrid working + up to 30 days working abroad

Private health & dental insurance

Company pension

Regular team socials

Qualifications

• 5+ years in creative strategy, performance creative or paid social.
• Proven track record in scaling Meta/TikTok creative.
• Strong analytical skills to turn data into insights.

Responsibilities

• Lead creative strategy for e-commerce accounts.
• Build testing frameworks across the agency.
• Translate data into insights and creative direction.

Skills

5+ years in creative strategy

Analytical capability

Client strategy experience

Communication skills

Understanding of buyer psychology

Job description

We're looking for a Senior Creative Strategist to lead strategy across some of our highest-growth clients. You'll own creative direction end-to-end - from insight and testing frameworks to concepts, briefs and performance analysis. This role goes beyond building ads. You'll help shape our strategic approach, mentor middleweight/junior strategists, and influence how performance creative evolves across the agency. If you want to drive growth, set creative standards and play a key role in developing the next generation of performance strategists, this is your seat at the table.,

Responsibilities

• Own creative strategy for a set of high-value e-commerce accounts.
• Build and refine testing frameworks that scale across the agency.
• Partner with the Head of Performance/Strategy on department-level decisions.
• Lead strategic presentations, client workshops and quarterly reviews.
• Translate data into powerful insights, hypotheses and creative direction.
• Oversee concepting, scripting and briefing across UGC, video and design.
• Ensure creative quality and performance consistency across your accounts.
• Mentor and review work from midweight and junior strategists.
• Identify emerging opportunities, trends and behavioural insights.
• Guide cross-functional teams (media, production, design) to deliver integrated creative.
• Support new business pitches and represent Hambi's creative philosophy.
• Drive continual improvement in internal processes, frameworks and creative output.

Success Looks Like (First 3-6 Months)

• You independently lead and maintain performance across multiple flagship accounts.
• Your strategic frameworks start being adopted across the wider agency.
• Junior and midweight strategists look to you for direction and development.
• Clients trust you as a proactive, commercial partner in their growth.
• Creative output becomes more structured, more efficient and more scalable.
• You influence the creative direction of both client accounts and the department.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in creative strategy, performance creative or paid social (agency background preferred).
• A proven track record of scaling Meta/TikTok creative using data-driven processes.
• Strong analytical capability - you turn data into hypotheses and direction.
• Experience leading client strategy and guiding cross-functional teams.
• Confident presenting to senior stakeholders internally and externally.
• Exceptional communication and deck/storytelling capability.
• Ability to manage multiple accounts with clarity and commercial awareness.
• Deep understanding of buyer psychology and performance marketing principles.
• High standards, excellent attention to detail and a strategic mindset.

Who You Are

• A leader - confident, calm, clear, and decisive.
• Commercially minded with a bias for measurable outcomes.
• Proactive and solutions-focused.
• Driven by growth - for clients, the agency and your team.
• Collaborative and invested in developing others.
• Able to zoom out into strategy and zoom in into execution.
• Thrive in a high-performance, fast-moving creative environment.

About Hambi Media

Hambi Media is the UK`s leading performance creative agency for e-commerce and D2C brands. With an integrated team across strategy, production, design and UGC, we’ve delivered over £100M worth of performance creative for brands including Heights, Surreal, 47 Skin, Mindful Chef and Nutrition Geeks.

Born from advertising and film, we bring together creative excellence and data-driven performance - acting as the in-house creative engine for ambitious brands that want to scale.

Benefits

• Leading D2C client portfolio across multiple verticals.
• Fast progression opportunities in a rapidly scaling agency.
• 27 days holiday + your birthday off.
• Hybrid working + up to 30 days working abroad.
• Private health & dental insurance.
• Company pension.
• Regular team socials, creative workshops and a culture built around growth.
• Beautiful collaborative HQ in Oval, Central London.