About the Role
VML is seeking a Senior Engagement Strategist – Freelance for a global Pharma client. This role offers a unique opportunity to help build a Pharma brand from the ground up within a fast-growing team. The ideal candidate will have a strong curiosity for the engagement strategic process, developing strategy and tactics informed by category and target audience insights, creating briefs, and cultivating excellent work.
Responsibilities
- Translate client vision into a roadmap to achieve meaningful connections with target consumers that align with client goals.
- Develop insightful perspectives on new platforms and messaging.
- Build connections with audiences.
- Bring context to reporting.
- Drive client business forward through best practice engagement strategy delivery.
- Mine data from various sources including audience, market, cultural, and social trends.
- Conduct product and services research.
- Utilize qualitative and quantitative methods to support creative strategy recommendations.
- Gain insights into target audiences.
- Test ad concepts.
- Collaborate with analytics, creative, and account management teams to ensure flawless execution of client deliverables.
- Contribute intelligence analysis, KPIs, and program measurement.
- Extract key observations and nuances to inspire creative solutions.
Requirements
- 4+ years in a Strategy role for an Advertising or Marketing Agency.
- Demonstrated understanding of client engagement and brand strategies from an Advertising Agency, Marketing Agency, or Management Consulting perspective.
- Strong familiarity and comfort with multi-channel strategies and related analytics.
- Ability to align strategies with business needs across all channels.
- A positive attitude and capacity for thinking above and beyond the client’s initial ask.
- A self-starter approach and true sense of ownership regarding work at each point of delivery.
- Proven curiosity and willingness to dive deep into complex categories.
- Ability to juggle multiple priorities to meet deadlines.
- Ability to think on your feet and an eagerness to think outside the box.
- Ability to work autonomously while knowing when to engage the Strategy Lead and greater integrated team.
- Strong interpersonal communication skills for client and internal department interactions.
- Technically proficient in presentation planning and development.
Skills
- Engagement strategy
- Brand strategy
- Multi-channel strategy
- Analytics
- Data mining
- Creative strategy
- Client communication
- Presentation development
Location
- Global
Work Type
- Freelance
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $60—$75 USD
Benefits
- Competitive benefits package
About the Company
- VML, part of WPP, is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, creating connected brands to drive growth.
- VML is celebrated for its innovative and human-first, award-winning work for blue-chip client partners.
- VML’s global network is powered by 26,000 talented people across 55+ markets.
- WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands.
- WPP unites cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel.
- WPP is powered by exceptional talent and its agentic marketing platform, WPP Open.
Equal Opportunity
- WPP (VML) is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics.
- We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.
