Senior Strategist Job Toronto area,Ontario Canada,Marketing / Advertising / PR

The Senior Strategist leverages industry knowledge to provide key insights and strategic recommendations for positioning a client's business/products. They will collaborate with the client and internal stakeholders to develop positioning and messaging strategies and are responsible for providing input throughout the creative development process to ensure all client deliverables are “on strategy”. The Senior Strategist helps define key performance indicators and measurement for programs Ogilvy delivers to ensure that strategies and tactics deliver against client goals and objectives and provide expected returns.

What You’ll Do

Lead the strategy & brand vision internally and externally

Develop clear and inspiring creative briefs and an extensive point of view for new business and current clients

Work with Group Strategy Director in brief development, new business pitches and department initiatives

Partner with Creatives to concept, explore and push the work

Design and conduct qualitative and quantitative research via focus groups, brainstorming sessions and one-on-one interviews

Can design for effectiveness and implement measurement strategies

Collaborate across disciplines and hierarchies

What You’ll Need

5+ years’ strategy experience in a creative advertising agency preferred

Ability to manage scenarios where on the spot, critical thinking is necessary

Exceptional written and verbal communication skills

Proactive mindset; cares about the details and follows through

Well informed on cultural and social trends relevant to clients

Is current on industry, customer and competitor information and integrates those insights into strategic recommendations

How We’ll Support You

Ogilvy celebrates its people. Fully. Enthusiastically. Unhesitatingly. We’ll empower you with the tools you’ll need to succeed. We’ll give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. We’ll support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. And we’ll provide opportunities for you to do work of which you’ll be proud, with people you’ll be proud to call your teammates.

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The base salary range for this position at the time of this posting is indicated below. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications.

Salary Range $90,000—$140,000 CAD

At Ogilvy, our people are at the heart of what we do: a creative agency that sparks game-changing ideas across culture and business through collaboration, integrity, and a celebration of self-expression.

We believe in building powerful teams with purpose - and we relentlessly curate transformative initiatives that make our commitment to fairness, and equity a reality.

Our ultimate mission is to leave a positive impact on the world, creating a better future for all, while supporting and uplifting the global communities we serve. This is central to our mantra of Borderless Creativity.

Ogilvy is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.


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