Job Description:
We are looking for a Senior Strategist to be employed in our Milan office.
Role Description
We are looking for Senior Strategist with boundless curiosity, a true passion for advertising, culture, and brand building. A professional with a proven track-record and experience in creative environments. Someone that enjoys strategy and creativity regardless of channels (ATL, BTL, digital etc.) because ultimately that’s the passion at the heart of why we do what we do: making brands famous through effective creativity.
As a Senior Strategist in Dentsu Creative’s award-winning strategy dept. you will be expected to look beyond the screen, with the eagerness and drive to dive into action, collaborating with all the Dentsu Creative teams in inventing new ways of making brands relevant and iconic.
You will work closely with all the Dentsu Creative verticals (Adv, Events, Luxury, Gaming, Design, Social, Influencer Marketing, and more) as a true 360º expert of consumer, industry and cultural trends & insights, developing brand and communication strategies for some of the biggest Global and Italian brands.
From creative briefs to innovation projects, we are looking for someone who’s ultimate responsibility will be to question everything, and then find the right answers.

Key Responsibilities

• Experience in advertising agencies working alongside the creative department to guide them and inspire creativity.
• Definition of a mainstream brand strategy or its repositioning. You know what it takes to make a brand authentic, distinctive and relevant and how to explain this to creatives and clients alike.
• Work directly with clients, being a point of reference for them and their questions and doubts.
• Research and synthesize consumer behaviours, cultural trends, competition and industry trends and benchmarks into challenges and insights capable of unlocking transformative strategies and ideas.
• Work in collaboration with our data team — part of the strategy department — to weave data and consumer primary research into your thinking.
• Define the future vision for existing brands, becoming the agency brand guardian for your clients.
• Design integrated communication plans to roadmap that turn ideas into reality. This will also be, when and where needed, in collaborating with Dentsu’s Media strategy teams.
• Help the agency and the strategy department evolve its methodologies and ways of working with proactive ideas and suggestions.
• Guide, mentor, and lead members of the team, and directly support Strategy Directors when necessary.

Who we are looking for

• You are insatiably curious about what makes people tick, brands distinctive, and ideas relevant in culture and in people’s lives.
• You are a cultural omnivore, able to become an expert in topics of the widest variety with skill and confidence in a short amount of time.
• You know how to get to the point, both in your spoken and written outputs.
• You believe that any good strategy can be summarized into a sentence.
• You like to challenge the status quo and hate clichés and norms.
• You are passionate about effectiveness and want to make work that works.
• You have a propensity for teamwork, listening and mediation.
• You continuously challenge yourself, your thinking, and your knowledge of the strategic discipline.
• You are proactive and willing to go beyond the mere execution of your tasks, exploring new and different solutions to accomplish them.
• You know how to lead internal teams and clients with simple, powerful, substantiated rationales.
• You have excellent written and spoken Italian, fluent in written English, with a good spoken English skills as very-nice-to-have.

Skills & Experience

• 6+ Years agency experience
• Strong verbal and written communication and data presentation skills
• Obsessed with attention to detail
• Ability to effectively balance high quality with strict deadlines
• Team working and collaborative attitude
• Resource mentoring and management
• Self-motivation and a problem-solving attitude
• Your mother tongue is Italian, but you’re fluent in English

Location:
Milan
Brand:
Dentsu Creative
Time Type:
Full time
Contract Type:
Permanen

• Experience in advertising agencies working alongside the creative department to guide them and inspire creativity.
• Definition of a mainstream brand strategy or its repositioning. You know what it takes to make a brand authentic, distinctive and relevant and how to explain this to creatives and clients alike.
• Work directly with clients, being a point of reference for them and their questions and doubts.
• Research and synthesize consumer behaviours, cultural trends, competition and industry trends and benchmarks into challenges and insights capable of unlocking transformative strategies and ideas.
• Work in collaboration with our data team — part of the strategy department — to weave data and consumer primary research into your thinking.
• Define the future vision for existing brands, becoming the agency brand guardian for your clients.
• Design integrated communication plans to roadmap that turn ideas into reality. This will also be, when and where needed, in collaborating with Dentsu’s Media strategy teams.
• Help the agency and the strategy department evolve its methodologies and ways of working with proactive ideas and suggestions.
• Guide, mentor, and lead members of the team, and directly support Strategy Directors when necessary