About the Role
We’re hiring a Growth Strategist to lead strategic growth initiatives for a portfolio of ambitious e-commerce brands. This role is focused on owning client growth strategy, shaping commercial direction, and driving high-performance execution across paid media and creative. You’ll act as a trusted advisor to clients, helping them identify opportunities, solve growth challenges, and scale profitably through clear strategic thinking and data-backed decision-making.
Responsibilities
- Own strategic growth direction for a portfolio of e-commerce brands.
- Build and lead growth roadmaps tied to revenue, acquisition, and profitability targets.
- Diagnose growth opportunities and bottlenecks across offer, conversion, creative, landing pages, and budget allocation.
- Turn performance data into commercially-focused recommendations clients trust and act on.
- Drive campaign execution alongside Media Buyers and Growth Executives to maximise quality and throughput.
- Lead strategic client conversations with confidence and clarity.
- Deliver measurable business outcomes through testing, iteration, and strategic thinking.
- Use AI tools daily to improve efficiency, accelerate insight discovery, and increase execution speed.
- Help clients connect day-to-day marketing activity to long-term commercial growth.
- Develop and own comprehensive growth roadmaps aligned to client commercial goals.
- Build accurate forecasts and growth models grounded in performance data.
- Identify opportunities across acquisition, conversion optimisation, retention, creative strategy, and offer positioning.
- Analyse account performance to diagnose issues and uncover scalable growth opportunities.
- Adapt strategy proactively based on performance trends, platform shifts, and client priorities.
- Recommend strategic solutions with confidence and commercial clarity.
- Work closely with Media Buyers and Growth Executives to ensure strategic plans are executed effectively.
- Clearly communicate strategic priorities, testing roadmaps, and performance objectives.
- Delegate effectively and create alignment between strategy, creative, and execution.
- Improve operational throughput by increasing clarity, efficiency, and accountability across accounts.
- Ensure campaigns, creative, and media buying efforts remain aligned to client growth goals.
- Build strong, trust-based relationships with clients as a true strategic growth partner.
- Lead strategic conversations and confidently guide clients through performance decisions.
- Present insights and recommendations in a clear, commercially-focused way.
- Set the narrative around account performance, opportunities, and next steps.
- Help clients understand not just what is happening in their business, but why it matters.
- Maintain a high standard of ownership, responsiveness, and communication.
- Use Shopify, Triple Whale, GA4, and ad platform analytics to monitor performance and identify opportunities.
- Translate complex data into actionable strategic recommendations.
- Continuously optimise account performance across creative, budget allocation, targeting, conversion rate, and offer positioning.
- Monitor key commercial metrics including ROAS, MER, CAC, AOV, contribution margin, and customer LTV.
- Drive a culture of experimentation and continuous improvement across accounts.
- Use AI tools daily to accelerate research, ideation, analysis, and strategic thinking.
- Leverage AI to streamline workflows, improve output quality, and increase operational efficiency.
- Identify opportunities where AI can unlock faster insight discovery or better decision-making.
- Stay ahead of emerging AI tools and workflows relevant to performance marketing and growth strategy.
Requirements
- Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience managing paid media campaigns across Meta and/or Google.
- Deep understanding of growth levers including offer strategy, conversion optimisation, creative performance, and budget deployment.
- Strong commercial acumen with the ability to connect marketing performance to business outcomes.
- Proven ability to diagnose account challenges using data and recommend strategic solutions confidently.
- Excellent client communication and presentation skills.
- Strong understanding of creative strategy and performance-driven messaging.
- Experience collaborating closely with Media Buyers, Creatives, and wider delivery teams.
- High proficiency in Shopify, Triple Whale, GA4, and e-commerce analytics tools.
- Strong AI fluency and comfort integrating AI into day-to-day workflows.
- Highly organised with strong attention to detail and prioritisation skills.
- You take extreme ownership of outcomes and accountability for performance.
- You are commercially minded and obsessed with results.
- You are proactive, solutions-driven, and calm under pressure.
- You communicate clearly and confidently.
- You thrive in fast-paced, high-performance environments.
- You are curious, adaptable, and continuously looking for ways to improve.
- You embrace AI and technology as leverage for better work and faster execution.
Skills
- Growth Strategy
- Performance Marketing
- Paid Media
- Meta
- TikTok
- Shopify
- Triple Whale
- GA4
- E-commerce analytics
- AI tools
- Client communication
- Presentation skills
- Creative strategy
- Data analysis
- Commercial acumen
- Offer strategy
- Conversion optimisation
- Budget deployment
Location
- Hybrid (UK-based)
- London office
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Mid-Senior
Salary/Compensations
- £50,000 – £60,000
Benefits
- Benefits Scheme
- 28 Days Paid Holiday
- Private Health Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Company Pension Scheme
- One-month annual work-abroad allowance
- Additional day of annual leave awarded each year after 2 years of service
About the Company
- The Soar Group is a UK performance agency group comprising three specialist agencies.
- With over £100M+ in yearly ad spend under management and a team of 130+, we work with 7-9 figure DTC and e-commerce brands across Meta, TikTok, and Google.
- Nominated for Meta's Creative Diversity Award 2025.
- Named the UK's #1 independent Meta agency group by Meta.
- Our creative department is the group's biggest growth lever - and this role is central to where it goes next.
- Our values: Extreme Ownership. Radical Curiosity. Kind Candour. Outcome Obsessed.
