About the Role
We are seeking a Strategist to join one of Australia's most awarded and effective strategy teams, working on iconic brands. This role involves shaping brand, communications, and creative strategies to solve client business challenges.
Responsibilities
- Shape brand, communications and creative strategies that solve real client business challenges
- Uncover human, cultural and category insights through qualitative and quantitative research
- Help identify opportunities for brands through a deep understanding of consumer behaviour, trends and culture
- Craft inspiring strategic briefs that set creative teams up for brilliant work
- Partner with creatives, account teams and specialists from brief to execution
- Contribute to strategic recommendations, workshops and client presentations
- Build your confidence in presenting and defending strategic thinking directly with clients
- Measure campaign effectiveness and turn results into sharp, actionable learnings
- Collaborate across disciplines to deliver integrated, meaningful outcomes
Requirements
- 1–3 years' experience in strategy or planning at a creative agency
- A track record contributing to brand, comms or creative strategy development
- Strong research and insight skills, and the ability to turn findings into clear recommendations
- Genuine curiosity about people, culture, brands and business
- Confidence in presenting ideas and holding your own in client conversations
- A passion for creativity and the strategic thinking that powers great communications
- A collaborative, always-learning mindset
Skills
- Strategy development
- Brand strategy
- Communications strategy
- Creative strategy
- Qualitative research
- Quantitative research
- Insight generation
- Consumer behaviour analysis
- Trend analysis
- Cultural analysis
- Strategic brief writing
- Client presentation
- Campaign effectiveness measurement
- Cross-disciplinary collaboration
Location
- Australia
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 1-3 years
Benefits
- Global mobility
- 16 weeks' gender-neutral paid parental leave
- Exclusive access to WPP Open, our global AI platform
- Brand-new Barangaroo campus
- Inclusivity & Impact Council
- SheCD
- WPP Unite
- Reconciliation Action Plan
- Tailored development plans
- Manager support
- Culture Amp-powered career conversations
- Access to World-class Behavioural Science practice
- Birthday leave
- Summer Fridays
- Loyalty leave
- Discounted health/fitness
- Yoga
- Meditation
- Wellbeing programs
- Telus EAP counselling
- Employee reward programs
- Referral bonuses
- perkSPACE discounts
About the Company
- We're a team of creative and strategic minds united by one purpose: building enduring brands and bold ideas.
- We partner with clients on work we're genuinely proud of — and we learn, create and win together, with plenty of fun along the way.
- Strategy & Planning is the springboard for Ogilvy Australia's best creative work.
- We're a world-class, globally recognised team of curious minds who arm creatives with the insight and confidence to be outrageously creative.
- We believe a strong brand is a superpower for growth, so we focus relentlessly on work that works.
