Head of Strategy, UK

In this role, you'll develop innovative, challenger media strategies across a portfolio of high-value clients. You'll sit in the client team, but be part of the growing strategy community at Brainlabs.

With a deep understanding of your clients and craft, you'll set the strategic vision and build mid-term strategic plans that deliver real business performance growth for clients.

You'll know how to drive marketing transformation, diagnose brand challenges effectively use data insights and optimise marketing/media as a driver for revenue and brand growth and media effectiveness.

Responsibilities:

• Act as the 'root cause' diagnostician of our new business and existing client challenges, never taking their brief at face value
• Be the architect of the 'aha' insights, creating moments where you reframe the problem so brilliantly that the subsequent media and creative execution is inevitable
• Be a seamless integrator, demonstrating extreme empathy for the consumer's journey, considering the role for each channel and placement
• Be an expert causal linked, providing bullet proof evidence for your recommendation and be able to anticipate the measurement needed to deliver proof post activation

Who you are:

• 12+ years experience of delivering media strategies to leading clients either within a market or across a region
• Proven data capabilities and ability to utilise data driven insight to drive media and marketing effectiveness
• A great storyteller capable of translating data into real world insights
• You're a 'knowledge builder' and are excited at growing and coaching those around you
• A natural problem solver who enjoys providing solutions for clients
• A confident, dynamic, engaging and authentic communicator
• Brilliant at pitching and engaging clients
• A innovative thinker, able to create and deliver challenger strategies

How you succeed:

• You will live our culture code every day!
• You'll become an indispensable strategic adviser for key clients
• Award wins for your strategic approach
• You'll have a portfolio of high-impact annual strategies for clients and new campaign e.g. new product launches
• You'll have proof-point where you have effectively articulated the strategic role of Brainlabs products and services
• Have positive client feedback based on how your strategies have answered clients' marketing challenge
• Have a 'book of value' which showcases, through case studies, how your work has delivered material business growth/value for clients.
• Strong internal and client feedback
• Increasing profile in the media world in your market prompting Brainlabs