STRATEGY DIRECTOR/SENIOR STRATEGIST

This is an exciting new opportunity to join our strategy team, creating brilliant creative work across a variety of amazing clients.  If you want to really push the envelope and be an intrinsic part of the agency and the work we create, this role is for you. 

About Us

M&C Saatchi Group is a creative federation of companies who navigate, create and lead meaningful change for clients. Across five specialist divisions connected through people, culture, data, technology and creativity, M&C Saatchi Group aims to unlock new value for clients and leave a positive impact on the world.

M&C Saatchi Group’s work is informed by two core principles - Brutal Simplicity of Thought and Diversity of Thought. Together they guide how problem are solved and integrated specialist teams are built. Headquartered in London, M&C Saatchi Group have circa 2,500 employees globally of which 720 employees are UK based, and operations spanning 23 countries with major hubs in the UK, Europe, Middle East & Africa, Asia and Australia.

M&C Saatchi Group is entering a new era with new strategic priority - to work in a more connected way. Across all businesses within the UK Group and globally, M&C Saatchi Group seeks to optimise talent, infrastructure, systems and processes and leverage the benefits of being a global company with a collective vision.

M&C Saatchi London is part of the M&C Saatchi Group. We believe in Making Change and placing the customer firmly at the heart of our comms, and we use this ethos in all our advertising from Brand TV through to CRM programmes. We’re lucky to enough to have a range of globally renowned clients who invest in our creative vision, such as PHE, NHS, Coca-Cola, Costa and O2. And while we’re a strong and tight-knit unit, we readily connect and work closely with our friends in the group.

Creatively and commercially, our business is only as strong as our people.

We believe nurturing the most eclectic and diverse teams of people and giving them freedom and responsibility is the best way, the right way, of attracting talent and meeting our clients' needs.

What's important to our people is important to us, and we know that change must start within.

That's why we've focused our commitments on our people – and our planet.

About The Role:

Senior Strategist/Strategy Director

M&C London is growing, and we’d like you to be a part of this growth. We are looking to hire an experienced Senior Strategist or recently promoted Strategy Director.

You’ll be a real ‘creative strategist’ with preferred experience within the retail/FMCG space.

You won’t necessarily be from a traditional strategist background as we’re are looking for ability across the communications ecosystem. However, we’d love to see evidence of exciting strategies that have delivered impact in the real world and evidence of working with creatives to get to creative solutions.

We are looking for someone who is one to watch for the future, they will be a pivotal person at the agency as we move forward. You’ll be someone who will stand by our opinions and really help push thinking and creativity to the next level.

About You:

• An independent mind that hasn’t been conditioned and permanently shaped by their first agency experience.

• A lateral creative but rigorous thinker that doesn’t let numbers or pragmatism hold them back.

• An empathy lighthouse with keen insight and an ability to express it.

• Someone with high creative ambition, that knows what great looks like (and is up for eradicating good from M&C).

• A change maker who can deliver pitch winning strategies and client changing ideas.

• A problem solver.

What we offer

For the right candidate, we will offer a competitive salary and benefits package which includes private healthcare, dental, employer contributory pension, life assurance and income protection. Soft benefits include: your birthday off, gym membership, choose your own bank holidays, emergency cover for parents or carers and much more. We also offer a host of benefits that support wellbeing including subsided gym membership and 11: counselling, whilst our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion sees us offer learning opportunities around DE&I, targeted mentoring programmes and the opportunity to participate in a number of active Employee Led Networks and associated events. Finally, this role will have a vibrant development offer that sets it up for success.

The M&C Saatchi Group UK has pledged its commitment to create a company that values difference, with an inclusive culture brought to life through equity with an 18-month roadmap of business-wide activity across people, culture, industry and society. As part of this, M&C Saatchi Group continues to be an Equal Opportunity Employer which does not and shall not discriminate, celebrates diversity and bases all hiring and promotion decisions solely on merit, without regard for any personal characteristics.

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