Role: Senior Communications Strategist
Sector: Creative Studio
Permanent: Full Time
Location: London
Salary: £55,000 - £65,000
Ref: 2508LH
VisionFR is delighted to be recruiting a Senior Communications Strategist on behalf of a fab creative studio with ambitious expansion plans. This role is looking for a Senior Communications Strategist to help shape a progressive vision for clients working closely with the London and New York creative teams.
Key Responsibilities of the Senior Communications Strategist
- Providing leading-edge thinking from the world around us, this role will develop, and drive cut through communication strategies from content and social, to GTM launch and rebrand campaigns
- Create comprehensive, grounding comms strategy decks that can be easily translated to client’s internal teams
- Be the strategic storytelling lead on key projects; leading and delivering a robust audit and identifying the areas of opportunity at the start of a dedicated comms brief or as a composite part of a larger brand marketing project
- Act as an internal consultant for the creative team helping to provide a broader, more considered and communication viewpoint on all/any projects that are led by Senior Designers.
- Lead a full breadth of communication strategy projects (i.e. content, social, performance marketing, GTM, 360, partnership, and influencer) across multiple industries
- Identify revenue opportunities from existing clients and from the application of new methodologies
- Contribute to a highly collaborative and energised atmosphere in which collaboration and positive disruption are encouraged.
- Build trusted relationships with clients and a strong understanding of the client’s culture.
- Keep performance metrics and ROI in mind and be able to integrate these into your project work both from the outset and at project wrap
- Pull in commercially viable and culturally significant references for ideation
The Skills and Experience required of a Senior Communications Strategist
- A desire to think and search outside of the box, both creatively and strategically
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects and meet tight deadlines in a fast paced environment
- Comfortable working with and briefing a range of creatives including designers, photographers, videographers, producers, copywriters
- Ability to manage multiple stakeholders, both internally and externally and demonstrate the value that communications strategy will bring
- Building presentation packs
- Execution of campaigns and content across owned channels with a strong background in reporting, always bearing in mind business objectives and markers of success
- Excellent presentation skills, with the ability to persuasively and effectively communicate ideas and concepts
- A desire to think and search outside of the box
- Have a familiarity with comms data, research and trends, and processing provided reports from clients, whilst balancing campaign analytics
- Have knowledge of working within a design-led agency environment and utilise experience built across a broad range of sectors
- Demonstrate confidence with helping to coach designers on how they can add more commerciality in either the creative concept or how it is presented to the client
- Keynote and Figma
- Creative and strategic writing
- Comfortable working at a fast pace across multiple briefs
- Media reporting and analytics
- Performance marketing
- Excellent presentation skills
- Demonstrable interest in culture and creativity
VisionFR is committed to encouraging equality, diversity, inclusion and eliminating unlawful discrimination within our workforce and whilst fulfilling our Client recruitment needs.
Due to the high level of applications being received if you do not hear from us within 5 working days, please assume your application has not been successful on this occasion, usually due to other candidates having more relevant sector exposure, qualifications or required skills. We thank you for your interest.