Senior Strategist

Born Social; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 54,000 - 61,000

Job description

Senior Strategist

London (Hybrid Working)

A benchmarked salary between £54,000 to £60,480 based on your level within our progression framework. You can read more about our approach to performance, salary, and progression here.

Who we are

Born Social is a full service social media agency designed for the new era of advertising. Our client list includes household names like Guinness, Primark, Ford, Mars and ASDA as well as the next generation of big brands like Nando’s, Seedlip and Peloton.

As a proud B Corp we work hard to attract, retain and develop the best social-first talent and create a culture where individuals can thrive. We’re a team of over 175 people across the UK & US and growing!

We're growing fast and so we're looking for another Senior Strategist to join our team.

Strategists at Born Social, are those who get their kicks from the thinking over the doing. Those who have a deep understanding of how social platforms work and how brands can drive tangible value from them. Those who actually get excited by a killer deck - and understand how to best present it to senior client teams. You’ll pore over the brief, dissect the problem and identify the opportunity - creating a social strategy with effectiveness right at its core. You’ll then be responsible for working with the Account Team, ensuring it gets delivered as intended, being an integral part of client conversations and stakeholder management. You’ll get a chance to develop the strategy team by onboarding and leading strategists and supporting team-wide initiatives, develop and uphold the level of social-first strategy in the agency.

You'll report to a Strategy Director, but take total responsibility for your projects. We don’t specialise in any particular sector, meaning any given brief presents completely new challenges and opportunities.

What you'll be doing:

• Delivering effective and actionable social-first strategy on a global and local levels, informed by social insight, qual/quant research, competitive & market analysis & social trends/behaviours
• Confidently educating and selling strategy to clients and senior stakeholders in workshops, and developing relationships within senior client teams
• Contributing to the long term health of key accounts by consulting on projects and campaign work to deliver best-in-class, social-first creative output
• Working with Seniors/Directors/Heads Of to evolve processes to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the strategy team and relevant account teams, through team education and agency-wide thought-leadership
• Supporting the hiring and onboarding of new strategists, and taking on their people leadership when required

Who we're looking for:

• You've got solid agency experience in a strategy or account planning role
• You have a deep understanding of social media and how it can be harnessed for a variety of businesses with a track record of delivering industry leading, social-first work
• You've got a proven ability to conduct in-depth research and develop actionable insights
• You understand various strategy + insight frameworks
• You have a proven ability to develop engaging strategic narratives for industry-leading brands and take clients on a journey to sell your thinking
• You have a keen interest in team development, people and leadership
• You've got strong deck writing, formatting and presentation skills

Our values:

Our values aim to pinpoint the magic ingredients for us at our best. We look for people who share our values and can add to our culture.

See Challenge as Opportunity...is about our attitude and to be very clear, this is not a value of optimism, nor is it about loving every challenge.

Say It Simply... is how we communicate. Think of the basic rules of communication - honest, clear, confident.

Do What You Say... is the crux of our reputation and longevity. When you join Born Social, our trust is fully given. It is yours to lose.

Make Each Other Better...is about our culture of collaboration and commitment to development. We are only as good as the people around us so we all take responsibility for developing each other, as well as ourselves.

Consciously Contribute...is bigger than all the others. It ensures we grow right. It broadens our focus beyond Born Social and cements our commitment to doing what’s just, not what’s easy or immediately self-serving.

Everyone's welcome:

We celebrate different ideas, perspectives, and backgrounds here at Born Social. As an equal opportunities employer, we believe in the power of an inclusive and representative team. We welcome applications regardless of race, religion or belief, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, political affiliation, family, or parental status. We don’t simply comply with the Equality Act, we go further and take pride in building a stronger and more creative work environment, committed to inclusion, diversity, and representation.

Perks & Benefits:

Flexibility: Core hours, hybrid working, and an allowance to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks each year

Holiday: 25 days holiday allowance per year plus a 3-day company switch off between Christmas & New Year

Wellbeing: A choice of £30 monthly wellbeing budget or Health Insurance, access to Spill (virtual mental health support), a trained team of Mental Health First Aiders, an annual Recharge Day and a Bike2Work scheme

Learning & Development: Membership to the IPA, a Campus platform packed with internal & external learning and a department training budget for L&D and regular team sessions

Contribute: Give one day to the world flexibly through On Hand - our volunteering app

Incentives: Monthly team-voted prizes to celebrate stand out individual performance and an annual profit share scheme - as the business grows, you'll be able to take a share of that growth home each financial year.

The Usual Suspects: From pension scheme, death-in-service to enhanced parental leave from day one

Clubs: From Book Club to Film Club, Cycling Club to Tag Rugby Club there's something for everyone

Consciously Contribute: Impact our sustainability goals by joining one of our Consciously Contribute Committees

Born Social: We like hanging out together and love us some organised (and not so organised) fun.