Strategy Partner, Media Strategy

1365 - Strategy Partner, Media Strategy

About WPP Media:

WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients and communities. For more information, visit wpp.com.

WPP Media is WPP’s global media collective. In a world where media is everywhere and in everything, we bring the best platform, people and partners together to create limitless opportunities for growth. For more information, visit wppmedia.com

About Wavemaker: A Leading WPP Media Brand 

Wavemaker positively provokes growth for clients by reshaping consumer decision-making and experiences through media, content, and technology. Our name is both our mission and our method. We do our best work for brave brands and people who relish being challenged to go further and faster, together.

About the role:

Are you curious about human behavior, and always looking for inspiration for a collection of sources beyond the norm? Do you wish to challenge the status quo, and bring strategies to life in exceptional ways? WPP Media is looking for a curious and provocative strategy partner to join our department. WPP Media are experiencing exceptional growth, offering interesting brand challenges for strategists to take on, and bring our ethos of Positive Provocation to all the unrivalled work that passes through our doors.

In this role, you will drive strategic thinking across:

• Client Work: Build relationships with senior client and partner agency stakeholders to be their confidante and drive brand growth outside of just briefs. Be quality control check for all presentations and workshops with client.
• Pitches: Own the narrative for the entire pitch story (including written response and any chemistries), ensuring the strategy lives and breathes in all elements of the pitch, in addition to owning and developing the comms strategy for the pitch brief, building a robust understanding of the audience, working with audience science to build any bespoke research (i.e. focus groups of otherwise), and ensuring the strategy comes through in activation and any big ideas.
• Thought leadership: Write regular thought leadership pieces that feature in top industry titles and contribute to agency thought leadership projects like Growth Trends and Positive Provocation. Speak on industry panels, network within the industry to have a finger on the pulse on the latest thinking
• Agency: Cement WPP Media’s Positive Provocation and further develop it as the agency evolves. Drive the strategic direction of initiatives to that make a positive impact on the work across the agency: i.e. training, inclusive planning, sustainable planning. As well as coach and mentor junior agency members who have a strategic nous. Make the work better though optimising ways we respond to briefs, the way we plan, the way we brainstorm ideas, etc.

Core skills:

• Storytelling & Persuasion - The ability to develop a compelling narrative and use multiple storytelling techniques to sell in a strategy, idea, media argument etc, whether from scratch, or taking the existing components from teams and building a compelling and exciting red thread end to end.
• Marketing & Media Industry Theory and Thinking - The Science: having knowledge and understanding of the core Media and broader Marketing principles as well as the key literature and thinking that guides the best practices in Media and Comms.
• Creativity - The Art: The ability to weave creativity into every aspect - whether it's thinking differently about a problem, bringing new combinations of data, insight or even media formats together and pushing the boundaries of the thinking and the ideas to take brands to a new place.
• Critical Thinking: The objective analysis and evaluation of a business, media or human challenge in order to identify insights and form a point of view.

Life at WPP Media & Benefits:

Our passion for shaping the next era of media includes investing in our employees to help them do their best work and we’re just as committed to employee growth as we are to responsible media investment. WPP Media employees can tap into the global WPP Media & WPP networks to pursue their passions, grow their networks and learn at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising. We have a variety of employee resource groups and host frequent in-office events showcasing team wins, sharing thought leadership and celebrating holidays and milestone events. Our benefits include competitive medical, group retirement plans, vision and dental insurance, significant paid time off, preferential partner discounts and employee mental health awareness days.

WPP Media 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. We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process. 

Please note, candidates must have the legal right to work in the hiring location. 

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