Job Description

About OgilvyOgilvy was founded in 1948 by David Ogilvy. David created a culture that deeply respects and cares about its people and clients. Our mission is to inspire people and brands to make an impact and we are committed to attracting, growing, and retaining the best talent in the industry.About the RoleYou\'re the go-to person on the brand, culture, and consumers. Your thirst for knowledge fuels your growth. Your curiosity and consideration give you insights that will inspire great ideas.As a strategist you are assimilating information: making it digestible and useful to everyone around you, from your boss to the broader team. You need to be able to shrink lots of data into just the right bits that help bring people up to speed quickly; saving them time and increasing their knowledge base. People look to you for knowledge - you have an eye for the zeitgeist and bring forward topical ideas proactively. You are curious about people and what makes them tick. And you help apply this knowledge to unlock ways of creatively growing your clients\' businesses and brands.What You\'ll Do

• Work in a team with 2 senior strategists across multiple brands handled as part of the WPP@Unilever set up
• Bring fresh ideas and fact-based knowledge to creative and strategic development
• Craft briefs and provide clear and persuasive briefings to creatives
• Source and apply business and consumer data to gain data-driven and compelling insights, write propositions and strategic positionings to address client business issues
• Communications planning - identifying the roles for comms and channels
• Recommend and implement research that will aid in the consumer insight gathering and strategic process
• Represent the consumer in client meetings and presents research/strategy findings
• Utilize Ogilvy and Unilever planning tools to facilitate direction and discovery, identification of opportunities and strategy development (understand business ambition map customer journeys, write briefs), and measurement (defining key brand KPIs)
• Collaborate with accounts and creative teams to guide the generation of ideas, development, and presentation of creative work, and steer implementation of strategy to results
• Integration/alignment of communication solutions to total brand communication/campaign plans across channels
• Manage day-to-day planning duties for accounts handled
• Build reputation through 1 or 2 award submissions and POV articles every year (Effies, WARC etc.)

What You\'ll Need

• 1-5 years of experience in at least one aspect of strategic planning or related field
• Familiarity with most forms of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies and working knowledge of when and how to apply them to a given client challenge
• Market and cultural trend analysis
• Competitive positioning &/or advertising analysis
• Ability to work directly with clients and develop relationship as a trusted advisor on behalf of the agency
• Ability to work simultaneously across multiple brands and projects
• A self-starter, able to work independently: shaping and delivering your own projects
• Creative mind: Ability to not just brief creative teams but to be an active partner in the creative development, from ideation to execution
• Great speaker and storyteller: Ability to present complex strategies and frameworks in a simple and
• engaging way
• Curiosity: Has a desire to know more, and is open to all possibilities. Looks beyond the obvious to ask \xe2\x80\x9cwhy?\xe2\x80\x9d, with a strong interpretation of information, and synthesizing it into a compelling point of view: spotting trends and patterns, an innate curiosity and insight into human behaviour, an instinct for popular culture, and a nuanced understanding of creative work are critical
• Courage: Shows bravery in making decisions and stands by values and beliefs
• Persistence: Shows determination to achieve the right results

How We\'ll Support YouOgilvy celebrates its people. Fully. Enthusiastically. Unhesitatingly. We\'ll empower you with the tools you\'ll need to succeed. We\'ll give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. We\'ll support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. And we\'ll provide opportunities for you to do work of which you\'ll be proud, with people you\'ll be proud to call your teammates.

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