Senior Social Strategist (Fixed-Term Contract)
Overview:
Our brand is our people living our values. Our values are our yardstick. Of who we are and how we show up.
For each other.
For our clients.
For the work.
As one, uncommonly, helping each other out, walking in other worlds and running towards a problem. No matter which city we're based in, we're all in.
The Opportunity:
M&C Saatchi Sydney is looking for a Senior Social Strategist for a fixed-term contract until February 2025.
A snapshot of what you'll do:
- We come together to realise big ambitions. And ours is to be the most connected creative company by organising original thinkers in uncommon ways.
- Deliver brilliant strategic thinking on several key accounts, with the ability to produce everything from annual strategic laydowns, to campaign strategy, social and content planning and strategic consultancy
- Play an active role in helping to shape brilliant social creative solutions - through inspiration, integration of new and innovative thinking and an ability to bring out the best in creative teams
- Be fully immersed in culture, and in particular internet culture, across macro through to micro trends, with the ability to identify opportunities for our brands to live in and be reactive to culture. You must be able to inform your social strategy and creative briefs with relevant cultural insights and then be able to help shape creative work, guiding teams with social media language, trends and formats
- Become an indispensable partner to your day-to-day clients and your account management and creative teams internally
- Leverage our relationship with platform partners, reaching out to them where their expertise is required and ensuring they are kept close to the journey from strategy through to execution
- Plus much more!
Skills & Attributes:
- Influencer - a trusted advisor, immersed in client's business & able to guide and work with best practice social thinking
- Creative - as passionate about creative as you are strategy, you’ll be a lover of great work and skilled at ensuring ideas are fit for purpose
- Collaborative - able to work in partnership with strategists, creatives, platforms and clients
- Confident - an influential voice & champion of social strategy both internally & externally
Your ideal experience:
- Proven experience scoping, creating and delivering annual laydowns and campaigns in the Social and Content space
- Experience delivering social content campaigns as part of an integrated campaign response
- Experience delivering effective strategy solutions within multi-disciplinary team environments
- Experience in staying abreast of what’s happening in culture and using it to inform the work
What WE value most:
- Walk in different worlds
- Make Uncommon Sense
- Run Towards the Fire (except if there is an actual fire when we run away from it)
- Roll as one
- Be excellent to each other
M&C Saatchi Group Ambition:
As part of the M&C Saatchi Group we come together to realise BIG AMBITIONS. And ours is to be the most connected creative company by organising original thinkers in uncommon ways.
We’re committed to building a diverse workplace and strongly encourage applications from First Nations people, people with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, mature age workers and LGBTQIA+ people. Our flexible work approach, employee-led diversity networks and inclusive career development approach all support and promote one of our core values ‘Walk in Different Worlds’ which helps describe our overall DE&I mission. If you require any adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please let our team know.
We celebrate people who embrace our values and BIG AMBITIONS.
Best bits about working with us:
Our big benefits fuel our big ambitions. There’s our Flexible Flexibility approach supporting your individual flex needs, you can choose to Work From Anywhere in the world and feel supported in planning a family with Family First paid leave policies. Plus, you’ll enjoy a program of inclusive initiatives with our people led networks supporting what we care about with our groups; Queer & Proud, Climate Action, Parents Pod, Wellbeing, FemM&C & Bipoc.
WHAT ARE YOUR BIG AMBITIONS?
We’d love to hear what your ambitions are and how we can help you realise them with us!
- Group company
- M&C Saatchi Australia
- Locations
- Sydney - 99 Macquarie Street
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
- Employment type
- Contract
Sydney - 99 Macquarie Street
About M&C Saatchi Group
M&C Saatchi Group was founded in 1995 and is now the biggest Independent creative agency group in the World. Founded on one core principle, Brutal Simplicity.
Senior Social Strategist (Fixed-Term Contract)
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