Strategist

WIN; Chelmsford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic marketing agency in Chelmsford is looking for a passionate strategist to help build brands through retail. You'll lead projects like the development of the 'Retailer Marketing Bible' intelligence tool and work closely with the Strategy Directors across various brands. Ideal candidates have at least one year of agency experience, strong presentation and research skills, and a deep understanding of social media. A positive, action-oriented attitude is essential for success in this vibrant team environment.

Benefits

Generous annual leave plus 3 days off at Christmas

Birthday off

Bike to Work scheme

Early Finish Friday

In house masseuse

Referral bonus

Season Ticket and Tech Loans

Group Income Protection

Health Cash Plan

Discounted Gym Membership

Free Breakfast and refreshments

Qualifications

• Minimum of 1 year's agency experience in a strategy or planning role.
• Proven ability to conduct in-depth research and develop actionable insights.
• Strong deck writing and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Strategy Directors on various brands.
• Develop relationships across all departments.
• Champion commercial and retail channel thinking.
• Conduct research to support plans and create new ideas.
• Write detailed strategies and activation plans.

Skills

Agency experience

Social media understanding

Research and insights development

Presentation skills

Job description

We can work within an existing strategy or framework or we can create you something from scratch. We begin by looking at the most important thing, the experience of the end user or target demographic. Who are we looking for with your campaign? What would get them excited about your brand?

Once we know the demographic we have to reach we reverse engineer and formulate a strategy that will allow us to speak to your audience in the most compelling, engaging way possible.

Diversity creates stability, so we don’t specialise to one type of channel or industry. Broadly speaking our client portfolio falls into three categories:

Job Description

We are looking for someone who is passionate about building brands through retail and who can think both commercial and brand.

You will be working on outputs that help brands win at retail which will include retail toolkits, brand world strategy, events, commercial sell, route to market, decision journeys and media plans, retail partnerships, new tech solutions, new product innovation launches and more.

Main project:

You will also lead the development of our 'Retailer Marketing Bible' intelligence tool, a unique and key component of winning at retail. A new app/book designed for our clients use to document their marketing successes.

Day to Day Responsibilities?

• You will be working closely with the Strategy Directors across a board range of brands
• Develop relationships with all departments
• You will champion commercial and retail channel thinking to the benefit of our client brands.
• Conduct relevant research and case studies of previous successes to support your plans while creating new fresh ideas
• You will be responsible for writing detailed strategies and activation plans that go above and beyond client expectations.
• You will create well structured and designed presentations that are clear, emotive and straight talking.

You will receive coaching, mentoring and training as required to help develop your expertise. Working within a strategy team with diverse skills sets you will find further opportunity to learn and develop working within the team. Of course others will want to learn from you as well being the rockstar you are!

Qualifications

• Minimum of 1 years agency experience in a strategy or planning role
• A deep understanding of social media and how it can be harnessed for a variety of businesses
• A proven ability to conduct in-depth research and develop actionable insights
• Solid deck writing and presentation skills.

ABOUT YOU!

You will want to get hands‑on in the channel and understand the people in depth that you are marketing to.

You're an action taker and a straight talker – no politics or jargon.

You have a passion and knowledge of digital strategy and customer experience.

You want to collaborate with others. You're articulate and rigorous in your output, going the extra mile to get the richest insights.

You are a positive solution finder, with a never say never attitude. To be tech‑obsessed, a natural curiosity you’re always looking that bit deeper than the others to find that killer insight.

You're a believer in building better brand experiences for consumers and are interested to do it on global and local levels for some of the coolest brands to work on in the nation!

Do you feel like clapping, we do! *applause noise*

Additional Information

What do you get?

On joining the WIN family you can expect to be competitively rewarded for your hard work. You will also be entitled to a wide range of benefits to support your needs and lifestyle, including

• Generous annual leave plus 3 days off at Christmas
• Your birthday off on us *not the party, just the day off
• Bike to Work scheme
• Early Finish Friday - 4 pm
• In house masseuse (Thursdays)
• Referral bonus for new hires
• Season Ticket and Tech Loans
• Group Income Protection
• Health Cash Plan
• Discounted Gym Membership
• Free Breakfast and refreshments through the day