Strategy Manager

Blue Square; Hertford Heath; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the gambling sector is seeking a Strategy Manager to drive client strategy and growth. The successful candidate will utilize data and insights to support client accounts, develop proposals, contribute to thought leadership, and manage a range of strategic projects. This mid-senior level position offers a competitive salary and various perks, aiming to enhance client relationships and ensure alignment with commercial goals.

Benefits

Competitive Reward Scheme Bonus

Company Sick Pay

Access to a range of discounts and perks

Life Assurance: 4 times your annual salary

Flexible Rewards Hub

Development Opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in a strategy or agency environment.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.

Responsibilities

• Support key client accounts to identify growth opportunities.
• Develop strategic proposals and insight-driven narratives.
• Create and present masterclasses on relevant topics.

Skills

PowerPoint

Excel

Data Analysis

Storytelling

Client Relationship Management

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ARE YOU THE ONE?

As a Strategy Manager you will support key client accounts, using data, research, and insights to identify growth opportunities and diversification strategies that align with each client’s commercial goals.

ARE YOU THE ONE?

As a Strategy Manager you will support key client accounts, using data, research, and insights to identify growth opportunities and diversification strategies that align with each client’s commercial goals.

In this role you will develop strategic proposals and deliver compelling, insight-led narratives grounded in evidence.

In addition, this role also contributes to Blue Square’s own growth by working with the Strategy team on thought-leadership content and new business proposals. This includes creating and presenting masterclasses on relevant topics and emerging trends, tailored for internal teams, existing clients, and prospective partners.

What You’ll Be Up To

CLIENT STRATEGY & GROWTH

Support specific client accounts to ensure development, use data, research, insights, and trends, as well as grow the client account looking at opportunities for diversification that truly add value and align with the client’s commercial goals.

STRATEGY & INSIGHT DEVELOPMENT

Develop strategic proposals – either from client briefs received or proactive future thinking.

Secondary data resources and insight using online and subscription resources. You’ll need to be adept at curating and aggregating info to support client projects using this data to determine actionable insights and associated ideas

Designing quantitative research questionnaires, and, if necessary, you will receive training to manage the process with our third-party providers—briefing, budgeting, setting up, and overseeing the implementation of the research to ensure high-quality outcomes.

STORYTELLING

Deliver insight-driven stories that resonate and tell a compelling story grounded in objectivity and substance.

Work closely with our Commercial Performance team understanding the data they hold and how this can support opportunities and ideas for client account growth, validation and substantiation

PROPOSAL CREATION

The creation of Playbooks based on topics/sectors/audiences that provide our clients with a helicopter view and potential opportunities to support their business strategies

New client proposals or new project activations, perhaps part of a tender, where we lead the strategic direction of a presentation and work with the client stakeholders to develop the final proposal

Partner with Client CSDs (Client Service Directors) to support post campaign analysis reports (PCAs) or account development workshops with insight-driven strategic ideas

Developing story-first presentations that support account cadence with monthly and quarterly business review documents that support account achievements and highlight areas for consideration and opportunity

ARE YOU OUR PERFECT PARTNER?

• You have strong PowerPoint skills that enable complex or comprehensive ideas to be delivered simply through the power of storytelling to engage and resonate with our audiences
• You’re strong with Excel and data skills – experience of having analysed data and other insight resources would be very useful
• You’re able to flex and juggle several different projects with various stakeholders – at the same time
• You’re passionate about AI/technology and how this can enhance your day-to-day and elevate outputs
• You have strong experience in a strategy/agency environment and looking for your next move – one that gives you more autonomy, freedom to think and ideate, and enables you to have a voice that really will help shape the business
• You’re a strong, compelling communicator both in talking and in writing
• You’re fearless with a can-do approach and an insatiable appetite to evidence the value and point of difference to potential clients, confidently talking and presenting
  
  

What You Can Expect From Us

• Competitive Salary: £45,000 - £50,000 Per Annum
• Competitive Reward Scheme Bonus
• Company Sick Pay
• Access to a range of discounts and perks across our key partners & beyond
• Life Assurance: 4 times your annual salary
• Flexible Rewards Hub
• Development Opportunities

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Business Development and Sales

• Industries

  Gambling Facilities and Casinos

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