What you'll be doing…

This is an opportunity to join a team at a moment when we’re pivoting to a very creative new direction. If you’re a brilliant ideas person with an analytical, strategic mind and a love of new platforms, this is your chance to shape the direction with us and be a key player in building something new and exciting. You will be the key creative strategy lead for a growing creative team with a strong focus on branded content, social media, and influencer marketing.

You will collaborate closely with the Creative Director, Head of Planning, and the creative and planning teams on responding to new briefs. You will thrive off deconstructing a brief and understanding the client's need that drives it. You will have an innate flair for balancing the strategic objectives with being able to spot and amplify the creative opportunity - and a healthy hunger to keep getting better at this.

You will be adept at plugging influencer and social ideas into brief responses but you won’t stay in your lane. You’ll be someone who sees campaigns and content “in the round” - always with an eye on an extension idea or a “something we’ve never done before”.

You’re a pragmatic optimist whose standard MO is asking: “What if?” and “Why not?” A positive team energiser.

Experience that will put you ahead of the curve…

You will be a specialist in social and ideally an influencer as well, with a deep knowledge of social platforms, best practices, and current and emerging trends in the space. You probably currently work at a specialist social, influencer, or content agency.

In this role, you will oversee a tight team of social activation specialists, so you will need to be able to be an escalation point for them, for new and live paid social campaigns across Meta, TikTok, and other social platforms. 

• Experience gained in a media or creative agency, and ideally in a specialist social, content, or influencer agency
• Experience in an agency-side strategy role
• Proven experience in delivering successful projects/campaigns/programs of work in social and/or influencer
• Proven experience of successful delivery in a strategy role

What's in it for you…

We have a number of awesome perks available to our staff.  We offer huge opportunities to learn and develop, whether through professional qualifications, exposure to incredible business projects, or informal lunch & learns, hosted by your colleagues. We have a fantastic culture where we really do care about our people and want everyone to succeed. Varied roles mean you’re not pigeonholed into one finite area but get the opportunity to develop a wide range of skills and experience

And to top it all off, not only do we offer unlimited holiday because we trust you to manage your workload and time but we also offer a share in our success whereby every colleague is eligible to join our profit pool bonus scheme - if Future hits their performance targets all colleagues may receive a bonus.

Internal job family level C4

The expected range for this role is £49,000- £70,000

This is a Hybrid role from our London Paddington Office, working three days from the office, two from home 

Who are we…

We’re Future. We’re 3000+ colleagues over 250+ brands speaking to 400 million people every month across the globe through websites, events and magazines. We’ve got ambitious plans that build on our growth momentum and unlock new opportunities and we’re looking for talented people who want to be a part of it. 

Our Future, Our Responsibility - Inclusion and Diversity at Future

We have a voice and we’re going to use it. We promote diversity and inclusion not just in our recruitment processes, but everything we do. We’re an equal opportunity employer and we will continue to ensure our recruitment process is free of bias and our workplaces are inclusive, positive, free of discrimination and respecting of all backgrounds and beliefs. Our culture is underpinned by our values and employees - current and future - are treated with respect and fairness.

Please let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments made so we can give you the best experience!

Find out more about Our Future, Our Responsibility on our website.

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