Strategy Manager

Strategy Manager – Global Media & Communications

London | £50,000 + Benefits

4 days per week onsite (1 day WFH)

As part of the continued growth of our Client's major global client partnership, they are now building out their strategy team and looking for 2x Strategy Managers to support a portfolio of HUGE global brands.

These are European and global-facing roles, with a particular focus on audience strategy, consumer insight and communications planning.

This is not a pure analytics or reporting position. The team is looking for strategists who can take audience data, research and market insight and answer the more important question: what does this actually mean for the brand and its communications?

The opportunity is ideal for someone with a strong audience and insight foundation who wants to broaden their experience and develop into a more rounded communications strategist.

The Opportunity

• Help develop and deploy global and regional strategies across major food and snacking brands.
• Bring a strong audience and consumer insight perspective to strategic briefs.
• Work across audience strategy, annual media strategy, product launches, market expansion and broader communications challenges.
• Partner with local teams across international markets to bring local insight into global strategic thinking.
• Work alongside experienced senior strategists while progressively taking greater ownership of strategic projects.
• Develop from an audience and insight-focused strategist into a broader, rounded communications strategist.

Responsibilities

Audience & Insight Strategy

• Explore and define priority audiences across major consumer brands.
• Use data, research and insight to understand audience behaviours, motivations and opportunities.
• Translate audience understanding into clear strategic implications for brands and communications.
• Help develop audience strategies across global and regional briefs.
• Identify insights that can unlock broader communications thinking.
• Bring a clear strategic point of view rather than simply reporting what the data says.

Brand & Communications Strategy

• Support senior strategists in developing global and regional communications strategies.
• Contribute across annual media strategy, audience strategy, product launches and market expansion.
• Support wider strategic initiatives, communications planning and thought leadership.
• Help identify and shape key digital priorities across the portfolio.
• Take increasing ownership of strategic briefs as your experience within the team develops.

Global & Local Market Collaboration

• Collaborate with teams across international markets to gather data, analytics and market insight.
• Interpret local market information and identify implications for global and regional strategy.
• Build strong relationships across the agency network and wider client team.
• Help deploy global strategies effectively into individual markets.
• Promote best-practice sharing across teams and disciplines.
• Support the deployment and tracking of key strategic and digital priorities.

Insight, Data & Strategic Thinking

• Work confidently with audience, media and market data to support strategic decision-making.
• Interpret local market plans and reporting within the context of broader global objectives.
• Use Excel and other data sources efficiently to interrogate information and identify useful insights.
• Turn information into clear, concise and commercially relevant strategic recommendations.
• Focus on the implications behind the numbers rather than analysis for analysis’ sake.

Your Profile

• Experience within media strategy, communications planning, audience strategy, consumer insight or a closely related discipline.
• Strong understanding of audiences and an ability to translate consumer insight into communications strategy.
• Comfortable working with data and numbers without needing to be a specialist analyst.
• Curious and able to move beyond what the data says to develop a clear strategic point of view.
• Strong communication skills with the confidence to contribute in both client and internal discussions.
• Highly organised with strong attention to detail.
• Comfortable collaborating across multiple teams, stakeholders and international markets.
• Diplomatic but confident when navigating different perspectives and priorities.
• Strong Excel capability and an interest in using data to improve strategic thinking.
• Ambitious to develop into a broader, well-rounded communications strategist.

What’s On Offer

• Up to £50,000 salary
• Clear development opportunity within an established strategy function
• Pension, Private Medical, Life Assurance and Income Protection
• Work from anywhere!
• Many more benefits

How to Apply

For a confidential discussion about this opportunity, please contact Noel at Pivotal on 07944610585 or email [email protected]

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