Strategy Director

WHO ARE WE

We’re Mediahub, the industry’s best kept secret. This year we got our first Campaign School Report, coming in at number one for building the most ethnically diverse team in the industry. COMvergence ranked us as the UK’s fastest growing media agency for the second year running.

We bring a challenger mindset to everything we do.  Brands choose to work with us to disrupt category norms.

We offer the best of both worlds.  A start-up culture backed by Mediabrands.

Just some of the brands we work with – New Balance, Pinterest, FarFetch, Value Retail.

You’ll be joining an agency that is for everyone.

We live by our values:

Anticipate tomorrow - we are challengers, we are proactive in thinking about what needs to happen today in order to make tomorrow better

Hustle from the heart - we move fast, take ownership, and look out for each other

Perform with pride - we take pride and care in what we do and we strive for excellence

Believe you can - believe in yourself to make a difference; believe in each other to do great things

Stay curious - we have fun on the journey of discovery

Position overview: 

The Strategy Team at Mediahub is the strategic and planning powerhouse across all of Mediahub’s business. As a Strategy Director, you will be allocated to specific clients on a long-term basis and additionally there are ad hoc requirements for project based work, and new business work too. It’s an exciting role, with lots of variation and pleanty of opportunities to work on new challenges and find opportunities to grow. 

As Strategy Director, you will own the overall strategic direction for your clients, working directly with senior clients to help them sett their trajectory for business growth, and defining media’s role in that. You will be instrumental in translating strategies into media actionable tactics through developing communications frameworks that take the strategy all the way into implementational planning.

We have class-leading data, planning and analytics tools. You will use these to ensure strategy is grounded in data and insight, thoughtfully planned and delivered with clarity on what success metrics we will use and how we will measure them in order to assess the effectiveness of the work we have delivered.

At Mediahub your role and responsibilities will be centred around the below core competencies:

Strategy & Planning craft skills

• Develop and own the strategies to power long-term media-led business growth for your clients

• Write and own the strategies for shorter-term projects and campaigns

• Use our data and insight tools to generate insights to feed into strategy development

• Identify the need for, help design and manage, and interpret the outputs of, quantitative and qualitative research

• Use communications frameworks to turn strategy into media tactics

• Actively support and guide the implementationsl planning and buying teams, to ensure that your strategy is respected and comes to life in planning and media delivery

• Work with clients to help them identify and articulate their business problems and translate these into comms objectives and role for media

• Clearly articulate comms solutions

• Build rationales for strategic approach, channel selection and planning tactics

• Help educate clients and colleagues alike by sharing knowledge around best practice, industry insight and effectiveness data

• Give strategy support on large scale new business pitches

• Be a key lead on smaller new business pitches

• Be involved in new business pitches, and lead some of these 

• Support the delivery of award winning work, recognised by Campaign, Cannes and other relevant awards bodies

• There is an opportunity to write opinion / thought-leadership pieces, take part in industry events as a speaker, attend pannels and so on

Client Service and team collaboration

• Be a ‘trusted advisor’ to your clients, providing guidance on how bet to put advertising to work for effectiveness, support client decision making and build a sense of trust and confidence in Mediahub

• Work closely with the business leads on your accounts to jointly ensure that overall client service is superb

• Be a team player within Meduahub – as strategist you are often ‘the glue’ uniting the business, planning, buying and analytics teams, by developing clear strategies that make sense and which all can get behind

Employee Transparency

At Mediabrands and Kinesso, we celebrate difference and believe this makes us stronger. Mediabrands and Kinesso are equal opportunity employers and committed to championing an inclusive culture that provides a sense of belonging for all our employees. We do not discriminate against any applicant based on age, disability, race, colour, ethnicity, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, belief, marital status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Please reach out to our Talent Inclusion Specialist Jess at [email protected] if you would like to have a confidential conversation regarding any adjustments that would ensure our recruitment process is accessible for you. Please note requesting a reasonable adjustment will not affect your application.

The Perks

We aim to provide all our people with a supportive and fun work environment where you can develop your full potential and benefit from the broad range of opportunities within the agency. When you join us, we want to make sure you feel valued – and that you are rewarded for your fantastic work. So, we also offer a range of benefits:

• Flexi–leave, with 25 days annual leave to be taken as minimum. In addition to your holiday entitlement, the office usually closes between Christmas & New Year
• Free breakfast and free lunch
• Early finish Fridays
• Core Hours (Mon-Thurs, flexible start/finish times) 
• Retail discounts
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifices car scheme
• Wellbeing programme, including Headspace & flu jabs
• Interest free season ticket loan
• Paid time off for Volunteering
• Group Income Protection
• Life Assurance
• Private Medical Insurance or Health Cash Plan (dependent on level)
• Group Personal Pension Plan with matched contributions from 3-6%
• Generous Parental Leave & Pay 
• Independent mortgage advice
• Financial education
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Free eye tests
• Flexible benefits including Dental, Travel insurance, Cycle to Work, Gym Discounts and many more!