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Senior Strategist / Strategy Director

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Job Description

We’re looking for an exceptional Senior Strategist / Strategy Director to join the agency and become an integral part of the team.

If you’re a seasoned strategist with a proven track record of delivering high-impact brand, comms, and marketing strategies, this is your chance to make a real difference at a forward-thinking agency. saintnicks is one of Bristol’s leading agencies, with some of the best talent from network agencies and client side businesses.

As a Senior Strategist / Strategy Director, you will play a pivotal role in driving major strategic initiatives for our clients. You’ll collaborate closely with some of the brightest creative minds in the industry, guiding them through complex challenges and developing actionable strategies that inspire great work. You’ll be the strategic visionary behind key projects, responsible for influencing clients’ decisions, and ensuring our work delivers against their business goals.

With considerable experience, you’ll be a trusted confidante for clients, commercially fluent and confident collaborating closely with senior client stakeholders from across all business functions—whether it’s finance, operations, HR, or sales—developing trusted relationships and providing insightful, actionable advice.

If you’re ready to make an impact, inspire great work, and help shape the future of our agency, we want to hear from you.

Required skills

Strategic recommendations. The ability to generate ideas (and unearth evidence) that will take our clients’ brands further, presented in a succinct and compelling way and largely centred around:

Compelling & directive. You’ll be experienced and confident facilitating strategy workshops with clients. Inspiring new thinking and mediating discussion between senior client stakeholders. You’ll be a credible, informed voice in the room and able to articulately interview project stakeholders, draft discussion guides and summarise discussions.

Strategic counsel. You’ll be able to participate in commercial conversations with senior clients about most, if not all parts of their business. Your forensic understanding of how their business works makes you credible and valuable.

Uncovering the brief. You’re able to read between the lines and identify the real problem we’re solving within each and every client brief. You’ll be confident translating everything you’ve learned about a client’s challenge, into actionable, compelling, inspiring creative briefs for the studio to run at.

Creative strategy. You’ll be able to originate strategies that meet and exceed client expectations, informing award-winning creative, and inspiring new briefs from the client.

Insight driven. You’ll be comfortable prescribing and interpreting research, and turning it into actionable insights that solve our clients’ challenges. Your knowledge of our sectors and disciplines will be invaluable when suggesting and writing thought leadership on behalf of the agency when required.

Management & collaboration. You’ll inspire and empower the individuals and teams you work with. For those that you line manage, you’ll be responsible for mapping their career progression, suggesting training, and ensuring their work helps takes our clients further.

Benefits

Interested? Email your CV in confidence to Tara today.

We are an Equal Opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

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