The Strategy Team is an OMD UK strength, a twelve-strong department – two Managing Partners, three Strategy Partners, three Strategy Directors and four Strategists – reporting into the agency’s Chief Strategy Officer. We’re a collaborative, diverse, and supportive unit, have been central to the agency’s recent success, pivotal to major new business wins, increasingly influential on retaining and expanding existing client relationships, and responsible for much of our award-winning work. We lead and heavily contribute to fresh thinking, through internal Product Development and Thought Leadership.

The Role is a unique opportunity to further your career as a marketing strategist on some of the world’s best brands. Working into an experienced Strategy Partner or Managing Partner of Strategy, your responsibility will be to create brilliant strategic thinking that powers the day-to-day campaign planning of some of our biggest clients, and take a leading role shaping the overall media strategy of some of our smaller clients. You will inspire cross agency teams to build creative and effective solutions for client, which help them build competitive advantage.

You will play a leading role in identifying the insight and shaping the ideas at the heart of those campaigns, collaborating with external agency partners to create integrated and effective recommendations for our clients. In addition, you will play a critical role in new business and agency culture, leading the strategy on some smaller pitches, contributing to agency training initiatives, and helping produce thought-leadership.

In addition, you will have some responsibility for the development of our team’s junior strategists and talent across the agency more broadly. You will positively contribute to a creative, collaborative and cohesive culture within the Strategy team.

The Clients would be a mix of Tier 1 (contributing), Tier 2 and Tier 3.

The Ideal Candidate likely has some direct experience of strategic development, whether in a dedicated marketing agency role or not. You will demonstrate a minimum of three years in Strategy roles with highly transferrable skills. You should have an elevated knowledge of the UK media landscape and a familiarity with established marketing theory on effectiveness and brand-building.

Because you’ll be independently responsible for some client delivery, you should be capable of building relationships and influencing established Brand and Marketing Managers client-side (and Marketing Directors at times), and comfortable working collaboratively – not passively – with creative agency account planners and other agency partners. You’ll be a persuasive presence on your feet with a clear point of view, able to communicate in simple, digestible language, and not intimidated by more senior clients.

You should also possess an inquisitive and insightful mind, able to interrogate a brief and identify opportunities for genuinely novel solutions through the funnel – wherever they may be. You’ll be able to turn those insights and challenges into clear, directional briefs for colleagues, driving the planning agenda on key briefs and some smaller clients.

About the Agency:

At OMD UK, we help our clients make better decisions, faster to unlock extraordinary growth using three industry-leading capabilities: Decisions Science, Connected Performance and Agile Innovation. We transform better customer understanding into faster marketing impact with world-class talent and technology, and we do this with some of the world’s most iconic and influential brands.  

We are part of the world’s largest media network, with more than 12,000 people working in over 100 countries and are currently AdWeek’s Global Media Agency of the Year.  

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Flexible Working

At Omnicom Media Group, we are committed to supporting flexibility for our people while fostering collaboration, innovation, and teamwork. We have a hybrid working model (three days in the office, two working remotely), to ensure that we meet the needs of both our people and our business, balancing the benefits of in-person connections with the flexibility of remote working.  Our standard working hours are 9:30 – 17:30, but we offer the ability to flex around core hours of 10:30 – 16:30 to give our people flexibility on how they manage their working day, whether that’s in the office or working remotely. For example, you could start work at 8:30 and finish at 16:30 or start at 10:30 and finish at 18:30.

We encourage open conversations between our people and managers to help navigate high-need periods and individual circumstances. Our goal is to create an environment where people feel genuinely supported to do their best - both in their careers and in their lives outside of work.

Be Your Best

We want everyone to make the most of the opportunity to shine and showcase your talents and we are happy to make adjustments in the recruitment process so you can be your best. Please discuss any specific requirements with your dedicated Talent Team member or if you would feel more comfortable, you can email us confidentially at beyourbest@omnicommediagroup.com to let us know how we can support you.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at OMG

At OMG, our vision is to be an agency where difference is valued and everyone is able to thrive in a culture of equality, inclusion and belonging. We are committed to providing a truly inclusive environment that reflects today’s society, where everyone is able to bring their true selves to work, and where diverse voices and backgrounds are valued, heard, and well-represented.

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