Key responsibilities:
Strategy – existing clients
Leverage data, insights, trends and brand knowledge to develop digital strategies, including but not limited to social media, websites, video, podcasts and email campaigns for assigned clients. Focus is largely on projects and to support provide to editors as and when required for always-on strategies (eg content planning)
Work closely with creative leads and account directors to bring innovative ideas to the table, identifying synergies and strategic opportunities for existing clients
Proactively look out for opportunities to improve the work and drive better results in a collaborative way
Build trust with clients, earning respect and trust by bringing trends, ideas and innovation to strategic input
Strategy – new business
Support Leadership and Creative teams on new business pitches as required.
Trends
Research, source and introduce new digital trends to DENTSU CREATIVE, with a particular focus on formats, platforms and content channels.
Create and distribute trend reports designed to educate and upskill staff and clients in their understanding of new platforms and techniques
Build out relationships with platform representatives in South Africa
Reporting and Analytics
Review reports for assigned accounts, work with editors to refine reports and identify and implement insights and recommendations, ensuring that content is conintually optimized
Frequently review KPIs, ensuring that we meet, and exceed, objectives and show measurable ROI
Team management
Manage junior strategists as required
Develop your team’s skills and processes required to deliver on digital strategy
Mentor group members, in addition to being able to help manage their projects on a day-to-day basis and motivate them to push their thinking
Mentor and grow interns within DENSTU CREATIVE, ensuring their path to completing their internship is challenging and rewarding with the view to retaining the majority of the interns within the business.
GROWTH AND UPSKILLING
A skills development plan will be built in consultation between the Managing Director, Content Strategy Director, Digital Content Manager and Digital Strategist to capture training and/or coaching requirements.
Where possible, exposure to the wider dentsu cross-agency business will be encouraged and facilitated.
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