Strategy Partner

Are you curious about human behavior, and always looking for inspiration for a collection of sources beyond the norm? Do you wish to challenge the status quo, and bring strategies to life in exceptional ways? Wavemaker UK is looking for a curious and provocative strategy partner to join our department. Wavemaker UK are experiencing exceptional growth, offering interesting brand challenges for strategists to take on, and bring our ethos of Positive Provocation to all the unrivalled work that passes through our doors at Sea Containers.

Responsibilities

Client Work: Build relationships with senior client and partner agency stakeholders to be their confidante and drive brand growth outside of just briefs; be quality control check for all presentations and workshops with client.; Pitches: Own the narrative for the entire pitch story (including written response and any chemistries), ensuring the strategy lives and breathes in all elements of the pitch, in addition to owning and developing the comms strategy for the pitch brief, building a robust understanding of the audience, working with audience science to build any bespoke research, and ensuring the strategy comes through in activation and any big ideas.; Thought leadership: Write regular thought leadership pieces that feature in top industry titles and contribute to agency thought leadership projects like Growth Trends and Positive Provocation; speak on industry panels and network within the industry.; Agency: Cement Wavemaker’s Positive Provocation and further develop it as the agency evolves; drive the strategic direction of initiatives that make a positive impact on the work across the agency, e.g. training, inclusive planning, sustainable planning; coach and mentor junior agency members who have a strategic nous; optimize ways we respond to briefs, plan, and brainstorm ideas.; Awards: Have oversight of the awards on your client patches, rewrite entries, and ensure they are the strongest they can be.; Team: Lead debates, inspiration sessions, and constantly share news research, tools and inspiration stimuli with the team; be engaged in team meetings and initiatives, including brainstorms and inspiration outings; help on accounts needing resource during team absences or client clashes.

Requirements

Storytelling & Persuasion - The ability to develop a compelling narrative and use multiple storytelling techniques to sell in a strategy, idea, media argument, etc, whether from scratch, or taking the existing components from teams and building a compelling and exciting red thread end to end.; Marketing & Media Industry Theory and Thinking - the ‘Science: having knowledge and understanding of the core Media and broader Marketing principles as well as the key literature and thinking that guides the best practices in Media and Comms; Creativity - The Art: The ability to weave creativity into every aspect - whether it's thinking differently about a problem, bringing new combinations of data, insight or even media formats together, and pushing the boundaries of the thinking and the ideas to take brands to a new place; Critical Thinking: The objective analysis and evaluation of a business, media or human challenge in order to identify insights and form a point of view; Right to work in the UK

Benefits

Competitive medical insurance; group retirement plans; vision insurance; dental insurance; significant paid time off; preferential partner discounts; employee mental health awareness days; employee resource groups; frequent in-office events