Role: Senior Strategist (FTC - 12 months for NL)

Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands (candidates can be based either) - Onsite presence at client's office will be required

ROLE MISSION

Working in partnership with our client, the Senior Strategist will be part of a dynamic, agile and growing in-house Studio team, working in close partnership with Brand Managers, on some of the world’s most iconic brands across Northern Europe. You’ll have a key role to play in finding social-first audience insights, developing smart channel thinking, identifying optimisation opportunities, as well as driving more engaging, effective, and culturally impactful creative work. You will be well versed in the latest trends across Meta, Pinterest, Reddit, YouTube, Twitter and Snapchat, and consistently bring best-in-class strategic recommendations to our client's brand and media teams, whilst feeding back learnings and ideas across our other internal European hubs.  

THIS ROLE IS RIGHT FOR YOU IF...

You’re highly audience focused, adept at putting meaningful data insight at the heart of your strategic recommendations, and on the pulse of social culture. 

 ABOUT THE TEAM YOU WILL BE JOINING

Reports to Global Executive Strategy Director

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING IN YOUR ROLE

• Developing digital communication strategies as part of a cross agency team (ability to advise media partners on audience insights and creative formats, write creative briefs and apply campaign performance learnings to optimisation opportunities)
• Work in close partnership with the Executive Strategy Director, creative teams and leaders in other disciplines to identify and convert opportunities for growth (e.g., proactive strategic initiatives, thinkpieces and cross-regional collaborations).  
• Building out and optimising precision marketing campaigns, while connecting the dots across various data sources (paid social, ecom, D2C, CRM).
• Establishing strong relationships with clients by helping them stay culturally connected to what matters to their audiences (advanced knowledge of GWI and social listening tools is essential).  
• Helping raise the bar of our strategic and creative output across the studio, ensuring our clients understand what the role and application of strategy should be across their briefs.
• Work collaboratively with creative teams in identifying opportunities for ground-breaking creative output.
• Sharing best practices and learnings with the global strategy team.
• Bonus points: if you are fluent in German and have prior experience in global lifestyle brands – ideally in the alcohol or drink sector.  

WHAT SKILLS WILL HELP YOU BE SUCCESSFUL 

• You’ll have a great blend of analytical and creative thinking skills: able to plan campaigns and customer journeys in a methodical and data driven way, but also able to come up with insight that inspires and catapults creatives into action.
• You’ll have hands on experience of delivering great social strategy and activation, and also experience in data driven creativity.
• You’ll be endlessly curious, and plugged into social culture.
• You’ll be solution focused, getting to answers quickly and collaboratively and juggling your time effectively.
• You’ll be a great communicator – both verbally and in written presentations. You’ll be strongly client centric, building trusted relationships. 

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