Senior Brand Strategist
Are you an experienced brand strategist seeking to leave your comfort zone and fast track your development and growth – both as a strategist and as a manager?
Job Title: Senior Brand Strategist
Business unit: Strategy Team
Location: London
Reports to: Head of Strategy
ABOUT THE COMPANY
alan. agency are an insight-led creative marketing agency working with some of the leading brands in B2B and place + space, with one goal, to break the mould and redefine marketing.
As part of the independent and privately-owned Raconteur Group, alan. agency recently acquired award winning place + space specialists Sectorlight.
We are a team of marketing and brand experts, inspirational creatives, digital-doers and storytellers, passionate about bringing brands to life. We now have an enviable international team of bright minds across our offices in London and Dubai.
We work with leading brands in the world of Technology, Financial Services, Destination marketing, Luxury Real-Estate.
Our skills
Research, strategy, creative and content. Our unrivalled access to C-suite data makes us the most truth-driven agency group in B2B and placemaking. This, with our provocative ethos, attitude and practice is what sets us apart.
Who we work with
AWS, Mastercard, SAP, Google, Grant Thornton and KPMG, The Royal Atlantis, WeWork, Knight Frank, Mandarin Oriental, EcoWorld & W Hotels.
Why join us
Our agency has doubled in size in the past year – whilst adding more huge logos to our already impressive client roster alan. is a seriously exciting place to be right now. We’ve got big plans for the coming year and you will have the opportunity to make your mark in an ambitious agency that’s all about producing stand out work that breaks the mould. We offer a competitive salary and benefits package and we have a flexible hybrid working policy in place.
ABOUT THE ROLE & PERSON
Are you an experienced brand strategist seeking to leave your comfort zone and fast track your development and growth – both as a strategist and as a manager? Then this role is for you.
The core of the role will be working on full scale rebrands, as well as positioning and value proposition projects. Content strategy will also form a smaller part of the role. You’ll also gain and develop experience in:
Producing ideas and strategies for content and campaigns, which inspire and push the boundaries of marketing across digital and social platforms
Shaping measurement processes and protocols; working with our measurement specialists to demonstrate the ROI of our projects and campaigns
Managing and building strong client relationships; providing expert counsel
Supporting on proposals, pitches and meetings for both new and existing business
Key attributes we’re looking for:
Opinionated and constructively provocative
Brings the energy
Unapologetically geeky
Intellectually curious
Creative thinkers; ability to generate original ideas
Understanding and appreciation of content marketing
Passion for tech
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
Essential to have:
Experience working as a strategist at a B2B or B2C marketing agency is preferable but will consider other types of agencies
Demonstrable content/brand strategy experience
Nice to haves:
Tech and/or Financial Services experience
Brand project experience
Background in editorial content creation
SEO experience
OUR BENEFITS
Competitive salary
Vitality - Private health care and dental insurance
25 days holiday per annum, +1 additional day holiday for each year worked at the company (capped at a max of 3)
Flexible hybrid working policy
Discounted gym membership and a range of wellness deals through Vitality
Perks at Work subscription
Wellbeing - full service Employee Assistance Programme, access to meditation apps
Day off on your birthday
Cycle to work scheme
Early finish on Fridays
Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave.
If this sounds like the job for you we would love to hear from you! Please send your CV to our Head of Talent at: rosalind@alan-agency.com
At alan. we recognise that diversity is critical to our continued success, growth and enjoyment at work. We seek to hire, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool, and therefore encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of their age, race, sex, disability, religion/belief or sexual orientation.