Strategist

The purpose of this role is to partner with communications planning teams and clients to create strategic outputs including insight generation, cultural narrative, media briefs, creative media solutions and go-to market activations.

Job Title:
Strategist

**Job Description**:
About us:
When you join dentsu, Asia Pacific’s largest and most awarded Agency Network, whichever of our brands you join, you’re becoming part of one team. A team with diverse talents in media, creative content and technology. And one with a shared ambition: to innovate the way brands are built.

Our collaborative and agile ways of working mean you’ll develop versatile skills and be exposed to new and exciting thinking. Combine that with a pioneering spirit aimed at making a positive impact on brands, society and each other - and you’ll soon realise why we’re at the forefront of the digital economy.

iProspect, a dentsu company, is a global, digital-first, end-to-end media agency. We partner with some of the most ambitious brands in Australia and the world to help solve for the business challenges they face, leveraging an unmatched mix of media strategy & storytelling with digital expertise and audience knowledge to deliver on our promise of performance-driven brand building.

The iProspect team works across a network of more than 8,000 media and performance specialists spread across 93 markets globally.

What’s in it for you:
Join a transforming agency who are putting their people and culture at the forefront of everything we do - collaborative, fun, progressive.
- Loads of opportunities to network and build your social circle with team bonding days & nights, learning seminars, industry events and much more.
- Bring your whole self to work We have opportunities to join our DEI workstreams and champion initiatives across the business.
- A commitment to corporate social responsibility and being a force for good, including 2 annual all team 'Day for Change' to support local communities and charities.
- Real flexibility to work when and where you feel most productive with our ‘Be the Best You’ policy.
- Attractive remuneration packages, parental leave policies & leave purchase options.
- 5 weeks annual leave after 2 years of service and 3 whole company mental health awareness days off per year + your birthday off
- $250 personal development fund to support your personal ambitions and growth (ever wanted to scuba dive?)
- Career Development and Learning & Development opportunities, including access to our global online dentsu University.
- Join an award-winning agency, having recently been awarded the Google Honours 2021, Agency Team of the Year
- Huge perks with discounts on health insurance, gym memberships, car purchasing or novated leasing, retail, and travel.

About the role:
As a Strategist your immediate responsibilities will include (but are not limited to) working with a senior member of the strategy team to build strategic responses for client briefs and collaborate with the client team to deliver this. You will also build your experience in other strategic areas including thought leadership and new business.

What your typical day looks like:

- Delivers day to day strategic work for client(s), stewarding strategies through to execution in collaboration with internal and external teams.
- Build experience in other strategic areas, including thought leadership and new business.
- Use various research sources and tools to deliver a point of view around a client's business/category, culture, and consumer.
- Derive insights and build audience insights by compiling, analysing, and interpreting information.
- Guides the development of client presentations.
- Develops and manages media strategists.
- Produce key strategic outcomes from data diagnosis.
- Further own understanding and skill sets within the media industry.
- Take advantage of opportunities presented to further own growth and understanding.

A bit about you:

- Experience across a mix of disciplines (e.g., Planning, Account Service, Project Management, Investment, Performance, Data and Analytics etc.)
- Strong Understanding of the AU media landscape
- An appetite to learn and grow within our industry and team.
- An expertise in both people & category
- Ability to interpret data to derive insights.
- Strong attention to detail
- Demonstrate a high level of competency in tools and systems used to identify, extract, and act on consumer insights and trends related to the industry.

Become a champion for meaningful progress:
Together we make our mark. Together we embrace the true potential of disruption. And together - across all our locations - we help our clients win in a changing world.

If you want to belong to a one global network where opportunities are limitless - we look forward to welcoming, you.

**Location**:
Sydney

Brand:
Iprospect

Time Type:
Full time

Contract Type:
Permanent