Job description

Job Role:  : Planning & Strategy Lead

Job Location: Jeddah , Saudi Arabia 

Job Description

• The Planning and Strategy Lead serves as a planning strategic leader across key clients and pitches, as well as mentoring direct reports.
• Responsible for developing strategy, being an essential partner to creative teams and clients, inspiring and shaping our best creative work to meet clients’ objectives. The ideal candidate will have a deep cultural and consumer interest in Saudi Arabia with the ability to use that to power insightful, original, effective strategy
• Developing clients’ communication strategies and supervising plans implementations

Job Responsibilites:

• Strategy lead on our biggest clients and pitches, developing strategy and client relationships.
• Looking ahead to spot long-term client needs and growth opportunities outside of a brief.
• Owning the strategy: From how you get the most out of our insight capabilities, to developing razor sharp thinking, to sharing it in a compelling presentation to clients.
• Inspiring creatives: Develop concise, inspiring creative briefs and briefing process, through to ongoing shaping of the work to help our creatives get to their best work.
• Make recommendations regarding the client's broader business strategy.
• Work with New Business to develop great chemistry sessions with clients.
• Work well with the account management and creative departments, becoming the first place they want to go for help and guidance.
• Ensure the work is achieving our clients’ broader business and marketing goals.
• Provide leadership and guidance for other team members.
• Manage projects that span multiple departments and help everyone stay on course

Skills and Requirements:

• 6+ years of agency experience in strategy
• Proficient with both Arabic and English
• Ability to manage multiple projects
• Experience managing/mentoring more junior strategists
• Experience working in traditional and new platforms and spaces
• Strong record in pitching
• Advanced research/insight capabilities: You know how to use multiple tools and methodologies - quant, qual, cultural, consumer - and how to join the dots between them to create original, powerful insights.
• Deep cultural interest and understanding: The forces shaping our world, our consumer, and our clients
• Strong writing and communication skills: Developing presentation, to creative briefing, to workshopping and collaboration.
• Ability to work to deadlines and stay focused on the big picture and smallest details simultaneously.
• Open to travel as necessary

To know more over the role and apply kindly send us your updated resume to [email protected]