Strategy Partner - Barclays

Agency: Omd Job Function: Strategy and Planning Job Subfunction: Strategy Job Description:

SUMMARY The Strategy Partner plays a leading role in shaping client vision, unlocking business growth, and elevating the agency’s strategic offering. You will lead the strategic charge across key client relationships — driving integrated, insight-led media strategies that connect brands to audiences in meaningful, measurable ways. Working closely with clients, planners, channel specialists, data teams and creative partners, you will translate business challenges into effective and progressive comms strategies. Your thinking will influence everything from audience architecture, comms frameworks, award-winning big ideas and measurement approaches. With a strong grasp of evolving consumer behaviour, marketing effectiveness and brand strategy, you'll help clients stay ahead of the curve and ahead of the competition.

Lead the development of audience-first, insight-driven communications strategies across key accounts, as well as new business pitches Guide the strategic vision across client portfolios, ensuring consistency, innovation and commercial impact. Serve as a senior strategic advisor to C-suite and marketing leadership, building deep, trusted relationships and get "upstream" to support them in tackling business challenges beyond paid advertising. Collaborate closely with client leadership teams to shape long-term roadmaps and proactive media solutions. Drive thought leadership and strategic counsel in response to client challenges, briefs and industry shifts. Provide strategic quality control and ensure delivery of best-in-class strategic output across all accounts. Actively contribute to both internal OMG and industry wide thought leadership – from written thought pieces, to speaking on panels and presenting at industry events. Work with the CSO/Head of Strategy to lead the strategic response for new business pitches and in shaping the strategic vision and objectives for the Strategy department. Identify new revenue streams for the department by identifying when existing specialist services might help meet a client need or by co-creating brand new / bespoke offerings. Manage the Strategy Directors in the team and support them in their career development. About the Agency At OMD UK, we help our clients make better decisions, faster to unlock extraordinary growth using three industry-leading capabilities: Decisions Science, Connected Performance and Agile Innovation. We transform better customer understanding into faster marketing impact with world-class talent and technology, and we do this with some of the world’s most iconic and influential brands.   We are part of the world’s largest media network, with more than 12,000 people working in over 100 countries and are currently AdWeek’s Global Media Agency of the Year.   https://omduk.com/    

 Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance. Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we’re focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us—we look forward to getting to know you. We will process your personal data in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice. Link to Recruitment Privacy Notice: https://www.omc.com/privacy-notice/