Strategist

**About VMLY&R**

VMLY&R is a global brand and customer experience agency that harnesses creativity, technology, and culture to create connected brands. The agency is behind award-winning campaigns for blue chip client partners including Colgate-Palmolive, Caltex, Monash University, Ford, Pizza Hut and Defence Force Recruitment (DFR). VMLY&R is made up of more than 12,000 employees worldwide. Locally there are more than 200 of us within our 5 offices in Australia and New Zealand.

**VMLY&R AUNZ Highlights**:
There are many things that make VMLY&R AUNZ an awesome place to work, but we think these are worth a special mention:

- Birthday Leave - a paid day off to celebrate your Birthday each year;
- Summer Days - 5 paid afternoons off each year during daylight savings time;
- Loyalty Leave - a paid day off each year to celebrate your work anniversary;
- Employee Assistance Program access and 24/7 support;
- LinkedIn Learning access for all employees.

**About the Role**
We are looking for a strategist to join our Sydney team. We want you to come and bring your own personal interests and point of view on the world. It's not a one size fits all department, variety makes the work richer and makes for interesting hallways chats, and ingenious insights that hopefully make it into our creative briefs.

We are the book club starters, the pub lunch go-ers and the proactive insight hunters. You'll be someone who is interested in what's new and interest-worthy in culture, be it gigs, galleries, podcasts, new trends in restaurants, in TikTok, always interested in why people do what they do. You'll have your own point of view about what you see happening.

You'll work with all departments, in our brilliant and friendly team. We'll give you lots of opportunities to develop as a strategist and learn the skills of the job. We work as a tight-knit regional team, from time to time you can expect to get involved with Brisbane, NZ and the Global team too. You'd be working across a variety of our clients, as well as new business, working alongside our Strategy Directors, myself, as well as our regional CSO, learning craft skills as you go.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Focus the information you hunt down into useful nuggets and actionable thoughts.
- Running qual and quant research with support
- Able to work independently on clearly defined projects
- Involvement on pitches and existing accounts, adding useful research, ideas and making the work better

Required **Experience/Skills/Capabilities**
- You're up and running as a strategist with 2-3 years experience in a creative brand strategy role, or something closely related eg account management, media strategy, CX, retail strategy.
- Yours is an important role for us - you'll bring enthusiasm, tenacity, and fresh ideas. When we're looking for new angles on a problem, you'll help us find them.
- You can take a brief and run with it, but are happy to have check ins with management on a regular basis
- VMLY&R is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, colour, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law._

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