Join to apply for the Senior Strategy Partner role at Wavemaker
4 days ago Be among the first 25 applicants
Join to apply for the Senior Strategy Partner role at Wavemaker
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, leads new business efforts and plays a pivotal role in the agency's product roadmap. The Senior Strategy Partner is also a lead 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 the insight and articulate the story.
* Translate the brief 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.
* Putting 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. Clearly articulate their role and how they contribute to our clients’ growth.
* Lead conversations on the latest platform innovation 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 which drive innovative and effective use of communications (and measurable business outcomes).
* Lead the conversation with external agencies that work with our clients in order to ensure Wavemaker is best represented at the table.
* Understand the ways in which our Consultancy Hub expertise and services can be organized and delivered to clients to help them improve their marketing performance and customer experiences.
* Excellent communicator in client meetings, pitches and at external events. Present back 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 the Wavemaker response to brief and ensuring the agency shows up with 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 behaviours 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 feedback to agency members and for your own personal development. Our approach to goal setting is tailored to your own 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 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 always is 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 a part of GroupM, WPP’s global media investment management company. Discover more on wavemakerglobal.com, Twitter and LinkedIn.
#J-18808-Ljbffr