Senior Strategist- Riyadh

3 weeks ago

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Ogilvy MENA Full time

**Our Vision**:
Our vision is to inspire brands and people to impact the world. To create big ideas that make a significant contribution to the planet, society, and the bottom line. We believe in today's world this is the best way for our clients to achieve sustainable growth.

We achieve this by breaking down the barriers that restrict talent and ideas, we call this Borderless Creativity.

Which is why our teams work fluidly across 5 capabilities Advertising, Experience, PR, Consulting and Health. This allows us to not only operate but innovate at the intersection of capabilities and talent. We believe impact and magic lies at this intersection. Ogilvy scales this by seamlessly connecting and accessing the deep cultural expertise of 132 offices in 83 countries.

**Our mission**:We inspire brands and people to impact the world

**How we do it** : We innovate and operate at the intersection of people and capabilities

**What we do**: Borderless creativity

Today, Ogilvy is recognized as the world's leading creative agency. We are also one of the most effective networks globally

**About Memac Ogilvy**:
MEMAC Ogilvy is one of the leading creative networks in MENA with its flagship office in the UAE and a strong local footprint in the GCC and North Africa. It is part of the formidable worldwide WPP & Ogilvy network. It's the only truly integrated comms network - with Consulting, Advertising
- Brand & Content, PR, Experience & Health under 1 P&L and under single leadership. MEMAC Ogilvy is the most integrated modern creative and effective partner for client growth in MENA. We inspire brands and people to impact the world. We deliver on this by combining expert and new capabilities for modern marketing solutions, with solid project management expertise for agile and effective delivery as well as a thorough and passionate People agenda.

The agency is the most awarded Middle Eastern agency in Cannes as well as a big winner at the local award show Lynx. It counts around 500 staff members.

**What we're looking for**:
We're on the hunt for Senior Strategist who balances objectivity and empathy. You dive into the deep end to unearth valuable insights that can unlock the potential, not only of what is creatively possible for our client's brands, but also what is practical and purposeful.

The Senior Strategist should be able to create and nurture a strong relationship with our client from a content delivery and an account management perspective. This position will work very closely with the client to receive, manage and perform communication, and marketing strategy tasks. In MEMAC Ogilvy, Strategy Consultants go beyond performing strategy tasks at the client's request. While they do consult on the client's marketing and communication needs, they also pro-actively suggest new ways for the agency to be relevant to the client. This can only happen if the Consultant gains deep insight into the client's needs, pain-points and growth drivers and reached a level of knowledge that allows them to anticipate communication and marketing strategy needs. The point of this position is to become a close advisor to our client stakeholders on a pro-active and reactive manner, to smoothly manage the flow of tasks coming in from the client side and to parter with both the client and the rest of MEMAC Ogilvy's teams to deliver the best standards of strategy thinking.

If this sounds like you, now all you have to do is convince us that you're better for the job than anyone else

**To Succeed in This Role, You Need To**:
**Finding Good problems**:

- The ability to interrogate a client's brief in order to understand and articulate its requirements.
- The capability to rapidly understand the business and communication dynamics of various industries (includes: competition, market trends, communication conventions and international benchmarking).
- The agility to be able to synthesize key data points from within the client and external data to be able to extract valuable insight.

**Thinking Big Picture**:

- Demonstrate talent for abstract thinking, spotting trends and patterns. Be able to articulate strategic territories and products concepts and be able to write these.

**Coming Up with a Plan**:

- Create communication roadmaps (aka journeys) that will help the agency deliver on their big idea(s) in a modern, effective and omnichannel way.

**Inspire, Collaborate and Ideate**:

- Have an innate curiosity and insight into human behavior, an instinct for popular culture and an interest in creative work.
- Draft inspiring creative briefs.
- Make compelling arguments and tell good stories.
- Share great creative work from within the category or outside it as inspiration.

**Being Rigorous**:

- Conduct deep-dive interviews and/or workshops to extract necessary information.
- Have an insatiable desire to always learn.

**Account Management**
- Partnering with Ogilvy's integrated capabilities and discipline experts to identify new business op

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