Senior Strategist

About the opportunity: Senior Strategist.  We are seeking a driven, communicative, reliable and insightful teammate to work alongside our powerhouse Portfolio strategy group, and become a trusted, invaluable partner to internal teams and client partners.

You are a strong writer/communicator, as well as a conceptualist capable of developing and applying frameworks that uncover clear, greater brand truths to leverage in our work for clients. 

You’ll collect data to inform strategies across campaigns, pitches, projects and frameworks. Your day-to-day involves collaboration with our strategy partners in Research, Social, Data, Connections Planning and more as projects require.

You’re a strong brief crafter and deck builder, who understands how to organize information, both written and visual. You’ll be skilled in determining the key insight or single minded objective that inspires our multidisciplinary creative teams to create impactful work, and collaborate with them throughout creative development to ensure the strategy stays on track. 

You’ll be familiar with brand, campaign, and social strategies and frameworks, with the ability to take on solo tasks as well as collaborative projects. On dedicated clients, you’ll dig deep into the company’s brand, business, consumer, and cultural status, continually devising ways to capture opportunities across our agency responsibilities (and even beyond) that lead to our clients’ success. 

Organization and time management are crucial. You’ll work on more than one project and client simultaneously, balancing priorities in collaboration with your manager. Your communication skills are excellent, as you’ll engage with disciplines across the Media.Monks network to accomplish tasks with cross-functional teams.

You're considered invaluable to:

Account partners for your ability to help stay a few steps ahead, anticipating client/project needs, and helping to come up with solid strategic POV that tactfully course corrects and gives clarity (even under tight deadlines). 

Creative partners for translating client asks into clear, concise, actionable creative briefs (supported by insights) to inspire great work. You’re trusted as a creative sounding board, and connect with Creative teams throughout ideation to keep ideas on track. In presentations, you’ll set up the brilliant solution, supported by concise facts and effective, informed strategy.

Client partners who count on you to bring a unique perspective, evolve thinking, and fundamentally enhance everyone's understanding of the brand, project, audience and more. As a Senior Strategist, you’ll be the point of truth for our team and our client-- a resource of deep knowledge regarding the landscape, competitors, product, and audience needs.

Strategy cohorts who rely on you as a source of inspiration to the department. You’re a contributor to our fun, clever, respectful culture, both learning from and educating your strategy peers with no ego. You’ll both lead and support in the codifying of strategy tools and approaches, contributing as both a collaborator and a thought leader. 

Growth partners who trust you to develop strategies and narratives for RFPs, and identify areas of opportunity within your client universe.

Responsibilities:

• Own your strategic perspective, bringing your strongest thinking, insight, and communication skills to craft strategies that are relevant for our client’s day-to-day needs, while driving business big-picture in the long term
• Bring your best strategic self: share your frameworks, approaches, historic findings and life experiences to the table, willing to share and adapt with other Monks across a variety of strategic pillars and executions
• You serve up sharp thinking in well-designed decks that deliver on client/ project KPIs with care, vision, intelligence, and an understanding of the audience. 
• Communication is crucial, the right candidate will be an articulate writer, speaker, presenter
• Research and collect information using desk research, social listening, syndicated and 3P data, on your own and in synchronization with our Research team
• Build slides and deck narratives that tell a story, captivate, and use data to back up your points and strategy, using imagery and design for maximum impact in Google Slides
• Work with the Strategy Team, including Social, Media, and Comms strategists, supporting our culture and bench of tools, frameworks, research and POVs both assigned and unassigned (be a persuasive self starter) 
• Collaborate with a Strategy Director to build our clients’ business by developing strat