Social Strategy Director

Publicis Groupe UK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Life Assurance

Private Medical

Reflection Days

Shared Parental Leave

Job summary

Publicis Groupe UK is seeking a Strategy Director to steer the strategic direction of a major client’s digital presence across Social and YouTube. Working with the Client Managing Director, Channel Leads and Data & Ops, you will translate complex business challenges into clear, evidence-based strategies that support long‑term brand ambitions.

This role requires exceptional communication and storytelling skills to distill insights into actionable narratives, and the ability to partner with local

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in digital strategy, particularly in Social.
• Excellent presentation and storytelling to simplify complex ideas.
• Experience across owned/earned/paid social including content, community, paid media.
• Ability to work with complex data and tell a clear strategic story.
• Curious about the 'why' behind findings and learnings.
• Passionate about staying current with platform developments and partnerships.

Responsibilities

• Present strategic recommendations to senior stakeholders with clear narratives.
• Gather and interpret audience, platform, cultural and performance insights.
• Lead deep dives and POVs on social platform evolution and trends.
• Partner with Channel and Data teams to address briefs with evidence-based responses.
• Translate recommendations into planning and activation with Channel teams.
• Collaborate with Data teams to turn analysis into insights.
• Connect global and local learnings with regional insight and global consistency.

Skills

Digital strategy

Social media

Storytelling

Stakeholder management

Job description

Company Description

Performics UK is the performance marketing arm of Publicis Media, committed to exceeding business goals by blending Data, Tech, Ops, and Talent to accelerate performance impact daily. With over two decades of experience, we harness technology and innovation to generate and convert consumer demand across search, social, display, and commerce channels. Embracing a deep understanding of consumer intent and behaviour, we thrive on data-driven insights, guiding our planning and optimisation processes through rapid trials, real-time enhancements, and intelligent analytics.

As the world’s first Performance Orchestration agency, we have a proven track record of driving performance impact across diverse sectors and markets, leveraging our industry expertise to innovate and transform swiftly. Performics is dedicated to delivering award-winning results and empowering all Publicis Media UK clients.

Overview

Our client is one of the most prestigious brands in the world, and one of the most prestigious clients within Publicis.They are a genuinely unique business in terms of their structure and goals, meaningthat most of the commonobjectivesof an agency client – sales, revenue, margin – are infrequent considerations. Instead, theyseekto ensure that the dominant position they hold within their market, the almost ubiquitous aspiration to ownership and their unique synonymity with excellence are sustained, not just for the sales quarter or thefinancial year, but for thevery longterm. This presents a unique challenge for media strategy, and that challenge is at the heart of this role.

The Strategy Director is responsible fordrivingthe strategic direction ofourclientsdigitalpresenceacross Socialand YouTube.

Working in partnership with the Client Managing Director, Channel Leads and Data & Ops team, they will translate complex business challenges into clear,evidence basedstrategies, drawing on multiple sources of data to deliver recommendations that supporttheirlong-term brand ambitions.

This role requires exceptional communication and storytelling skills. They will confidently distil complex information into clear strategic narratives, facilitate discussions across senior stakeholders and build trusted relationships across client, channelanddata teams to ensure alignment and clarity.

The role will lead strategic thinking across key social platforms, primarily Meta and YouTube, while also contributing to strategic development across Asian-market platforms where appropriate.

More broadly, thecandidatewill needa strong understanding of digital communications and brand strategy to ensure Social and YouTube recommendations supportthe client’sbroader communications objectives

Responsibilities

• Confidently present strategic recommendations to senior stakeholders, communicating complex ideas through clear and compelling narratives.

• Gatherand interpret audience, platform, cultural and performance insights from multiple data sources to inform strategicrecommendations

• Lead deep divesand POVsinto social platform evolution, audience behaviour, competitor activity and cultural trendsrelevant forthe client

• Partner closely with the Channel and Data teamstoaddressbusiness briefswithclear, evidencebasedstrategicresponses

• Ensure strategic recommendations are effectively translated into planning and activation through close partnership with Channelteams

• Work withData teams tointerpret complex analysisin clearinsightsandrecommendations

• Partner with local market teams to connect global and local learnings, ensuring strategies are informed by regional insight while maintaining global consistency.

Qualifications

- Extensive experience in digital strategy, particularly in Social

- Exceptionally strong presentation and storytelling skills, who can simplify complex thinking for a range of stakeholders

- Demonstrate experience across owned/earned/paid social through content, community, paid media

- Comfortable working with complex data and using it to tell a clear strategic story

- Naturally curious, with an interest in understanding the ‘why’ behind findings and learnings

- Passionate about staying up to date with current affairs, platform developments, and sporting and cultural partnerships of our client

Additional Information

Publicis Mediaoffers a wide range of benefits to support our employees. Full details are shared when you join, but highlights include core benefits such as Pension, Life Assurance, and Private Medical cover, alongside enhanced policies like Reflection Days and Shared Parental Leave. You’ll also have access to a range of additional initiatives, including:

Publicis Groupe works primarily from the office or our clients’ office four days per week.

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