Senior Manager, Strategy
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What you will do
- Create and articulate strategy recommendations for senior marketers with a commercial/product marketing mindset, demonstrating the value of comms planning through your work
- Develop plans considering paid, owned, and earned media channels with clear KPIs to evaluate success
- Lead strategic discovery processes including research, audience understanding, and competitive analysis to inform planning decisions
- Translate strategy into actionable media recommendations and plans, while considering context, culture, consumer, and content
- Partner with Data, Creative, and Media teams to build integrated solutions that connect strategy to execution
- Apply an evidence-based approach in developing recommendations for clients
- Embrace a positive mindset and an inclusive approach in receiving feedback from clients
- Share your point of view confidently and seek opportunities to elevate planning
- Mentor and develop more junior strategists, supporting a collaborative and high-performing team culture
Requirements
- Experience in driving integrated comms planning across multiple stakeholders
- Experience in cross-channel media strategy and planning
- Demonstrated ability to turn business challenges into clear strategic frameworks and actionable media plans
- Deep understanding of how audiences behave across paid, owned, and earned touchpoints, and how channels work together to shift behaviour
- Ability to brief and challenge channel specialists to ensure strategic consistency across planning and activation
- Comfortable working with qual, quant, performance, audience, and cultural insight sources
- Proficient in using key industry tools to drive insights and plans
- Demonstrated success in delivering results in multi-channel environments
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders, challenge thinking, and build trusted advisory relationships
- Understanding of business models, growth drivers, and commercial levers that connect marketing activity to measurable outcomes
- You can develop plans considering Paid, Owned, and Earned media channels with clear expectations/KPIs
Salary
Leeds - £55,000 - £65,000
Manchester - £57,000 - £68,000
Diversity & Inclusion
Journey Further takes pride in creating an environment where everyone can be themselves. This starts with recruitment.
We pledge to make our roles as open as possible and to provide equal opportunities to everyone that is kind enough to give us their time. All recruitment decisions we take will be based solely on the positive skills and behaviours that applicants display and absolutely nothing else.
We do not discriminate based on any personal characteristic, we are a people first agency and we care about and celebrate individuals.
If something is important to you, it's important to us. If you have a particular need during the application process or during your time at Journey Further, please let us know.
- Department
- Strategy & Insight
- Locations
- Leeds, Manchester
- Yearly salary
- £55,000 - £65,000
- Employment type
- Full-time
Perks & Benefits
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Flexibility
We understand that everyone works differently, so we provide them the freedom to work how they want, when they want and where they want. No role is ever fully remote as we want people to be spending time with one another in person – however, we will support you in making sure you are supported in what ways of working suit you best.
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Experience
Work alongside one of the most experienced digital teams in the industry, and collaborate directly with clients at some of the world’s largest brands and high-growth startups.
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Wellbeing
We actively care for our team’s physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
We run various company initiatives to help promote physical wellbeing – yoga, running club, 5-a-side football to name a few.
We believe in taking a proactive approach when it comes to all our people’s mental wellbeing. As such we have partnered with experts from Vitality as well as trained Mental Health First Aiders, who our people can turn to in times of need
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Trust
We believe in giving ambitious people incredible autonomy in their work. You’ll have the freedom to tackle complex problems and the support of some of the talented people in the industry to do so.
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Learning
Through our Learn Together sessions, Book Club and Podcast, we learn from the best minds in the world and apply the most valuable insight to the work we do and how we run the business.
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CSR
CSR is a key priority for the business. We’re currently working on how we can make a lasting, positive impact on the world around us.
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Benefits
Our benefits package is constantly evolving. In the UK it currently includes:
- Pension matched up to 4%
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- Private medical insurance
- Personal health fund
- Home working allowance
- 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and Christmas shutdown
- Unlimited unpaid holiday
In the US it currently includes:
- 401k matching
- Subsidized Medical, Dental & Vision
Company Life Insurance - Enhanced Maternity & Paternity cover
- Flexible and Remote working
- 19 days paid time off plus 12 federal holidays & office closure between Christmas and New Year.
- 1 additional day for observing a cultural, religious, or a personally meaningful occasion of their choice
- Unpaid time off
About Journey Further
Journey Further is a performance marketing agency working with the world's leading brands and fast-growth start-ups. We blend strategic thinking, creativity, digital channels and experimentation taking brands beyond performance.
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