About the Role
This role is designed to ensure strategy remains a defining strength at 23red, working alongside the Strategy & Planning Client Partner to elevate strategic thinking, build an ambitious team, and influence senior clients and colleagues. The focus is on developing compelling strategies that inspire brilliant work and deliver measurable change, while championing effectiveness and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
- Elevate strategic thinking across the agency.
- Build on the culture of effectiveness.
- Ensure every brief, recommendation, and piece of work benefits from sharper thinking.
- Remain hands-on with key clients and pitches.
- Develop an ambitious, supportive, and high-performing strategy team.
- Grow the influence of strategy across the business.
- Lead the development of compelling strategies that inspire brilliant work and deliver measurable change.
- Build learning and measurement into projects from the outset.
- Champion experimentation, improvement, and effectiveness.
- Support efforts to demonstrate effectiveness to clients and through award entries.
- Encourage curiosity about new approaches and better problem-solving methods.
- Embrace experimentation and new approaches, including research, AI, emerging technologies, and new strategic methods.
- Ensure human judgment, creativity, empathy, and effectiveness remain central to the work.
- Build effective multidisciplinary teams across 23red, frog, and Capgemini Invent, and with Collective partners.
- Shape teams around problems, identifying the right mix of strategists and agency partners.
- Help grow and shape the future direction of the agency.
- Spot opportunities and shape new offers.
- Contribute to winning new business and building long-term client partnerships.
- Grow the agency's reputation through thought leadership, industry relationships, new business wins, and award-winning work.
Requirements
- Exceptional strategist with the judgment to simplify complex challenges.
- Ability to inspire creative work.
- Ability to influence senior clients and colleagues through insight, behavioral science, creativity, empathy, and rigorous effectiveness.
- Experience in building learning and measurement into projects.
- Curiosity about new approaches and encouraging better ways of solving problems.
- Ability to shape teams around problems.
- Ability to spot opportunities and shape new offers.
- Ability to contribute to winning new business and building long-term client partnerships.
- Ability to grow the agency's reputation through thought leadership, industry relationships, new business wins, and award-winning work.
Skills
- Strategy development
- Behavioral science
- Creativity
- Empathy
- Effectiveness
- Insight generation
- Learning and measurement
- Experimentation
- Research
- AI-powered approaches
- Emerging technologies
- Collaboration
- Strategic methods
- Team building
- Client relationship management
- New business development
- Thought leadership
About the Company
- 23red is a purpose-driven creative agency.
- We create brands, campaigns and experiences that change behaviour for the better and have a positive impact on people and the planet.
- We combine insight, creativity, empathy and evidence to solve complex challenges and create platforms for change.
- Our people are motivated by the impact of our work.
- Everything we do is guided by our values: Collaborative, Curious, Creative, Caring and Clever.
- We're part of Capgemini Invent globally and aligned with frog in the UK.
- We also frequently embrace the power of ‘Collective’ working with other expert partners.
- Together, we combine the agility of a specialist agency with the scale and expertise of a global consultancy.
Equal Opportunity
- DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
