Senior Strategist

About the role

This senior strategist will be dedicated to our office's specialty in complex businesses spanning technology, finance, and B2B categories. We're looking for experience and/or appetite for building brands in these high-stakes industries, breaking their category conventions.

Responsibilities

• Manage the day-to-day planning needs in an independent, autonomous manner with guidance from group planning directors
• Demonstrate success facilitating the strategic creative process, including insight gathering, audience understanding and creative brief development
• Create, manage, and implement sound research to lead and support the strategic creative process
• Inspire the team to more effective and culturally relevant work; leading most day-to-day strategic initiatives and discussions with their client and C\D peers
• Actively engage in cracking smart, disruptive, effective creative strategies, and ideas – taking mutual responsibility for the strategic & creative performance of your brand(s)
• Recommend strategies for growth and development
• Works with clients to formulate better briefs and tasks
• Build a relationship with clients that is positive and productive
• Zoom in on the details and zoom out to see the big picture
• Be the one doing the pushing – of the teams, the clients, the work
• Ensure your hit-rate is high and your work is exemplary

Qualifications

• 4-6+ years’ experience in advertising, marketing or related field demonstrating creative work or qualitative research and/or equivalent combination of education and experience required
• Evidence of success in developing brands and delivering them to market, especially in tech, B2B, technology, or startup industries
• Evidence of working on developing successful brands and delivering them to market
• Excellent interpersonal, organization and written communication skills
• Power-user skills in Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Keynote and Google Apps
• Familiarity with a wide range of research and intelligence sources

Pay

$100,000-$125,000

Schedule

Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.