Agency :
PivotRootsJob Description :
The Senior Strategist is responsible for working with the Director to define/refine the client overall strategy. This role understands target behaviors of the audience, their world/cutlrure and their content preferences. The Senior Strategist consistently uncover audeince, cultural and media insights that inform strategic and creative thinking. The Senior Strategist utilizes various tools to uncover ongoing audience, brand and category instights. The Senior Strategist is responsible for working with the Director to define/refine the client overall strategy. This role understands target behaviors of the audience, their world/cutlrure and their content preferences. The Senior Strategist consistently uncover audeince, cultural and media insights that inform strategic and creative thinking. The Senior Strategist utilizes various tools to uncover ongoing audience, brand and category instights.
- Develops brand/digital/social marketing strategies based on the brand and comms strategy.
- Determinse what type of ideas/content/technology are best suited to deliver on the strategy, and how they best work together.
- Determines channels to be leveraged and help the creative teams ideate tactics that align with the strategy.
- Understands how digital content moves through todays digital landscape and defines relevant and impactful content strategies for the clients digital channels (including website).
- Determines how the campaign works through 3rd party voices like influencers.
- Writes innovative and inspiring creative briefs.
- Creates and brief in-house teams or partner agencies to develop platforms, ideas and content that ladder up to brand and digital strategies.
- Develop custom queries to conduct psychographic and cultural research.
- Create target personas that help the team identify unmet needs and hypothesize solutions.
- Incorporate secondary research into the process to help build your case.
- Quant, Qual, Ethno, Man on the street.
- Monitors trends in digital, social media and technology and package them for the agency.
- Collaborates effectively with colleagues from a range of disciplines including Strategy, Creative, Analytics, Production, PM and Account Management.
- Participate in client workshops, presentations, and other working sessions as required.
Contract Type :
PermanentHere at Havas across the group we pride ourselves on being committed to offering equal opportunities to all potential employees and have zero tolerance for discrimination. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants irrespective of age, sex, race, ethnicity, disability and other factors that have no bearing on an individual’s ability to perform their job.
Skills Required
- Develop brand, digital and social marketing strategies
- Understand target audience behaviours, culture and content preferences
- Uncover audience, cultural and media insights using various tools
- Write creative briefs and brief internal teams or partner agencies
- Design content strategies for digital channels including website and social
- Determine influencer and 3rd-party voice strategy
- Conduct quantitative, qualitative and ethnographic research (including custom queries)
- Monitor digital, social media and technology trends and package insights for the agency
- Collaborate across multidisciplinary teams and participate in client workshops and presentations
What We Do
Fearless. Fast. Smart. Focused. We are on a relentless quest to be Chicago's most creative company by reinvigorating iconic American brands through cultural relevance. We are passionate makers, digital disruptors, artists who don't color inside the lines. We work smarter. Push harder. Break things. Make things. And we're always looking forward.
Why Work With Us
Our agency gets out of bed in the morning to undertake what we call 'meaningful disruption' in an industry that is in need of serious transformation. We are not looking for the same, boring solutions that are chock-full of brand and marketing rhetoric but seek people that want to change the advertising game.









