Mid-Weight Strategist (Gauteng)

2 months ago 54
Remuneration:market-related 
Location:Gauteng
Job level:Mid
Type:Contract
Reference:#AA-44
Company:Avatar Agency

Job description

Role Overview

To take strategic ownership of the portfolio of leading banking client, ensuring high-quality, consistent, and brand-aligned thinking across all communications and campaigns.

What Success looks like

  • Work consistently reflects the brand's intent and standards.
  • Fewer strategic misalignments or late-stage rewrites.
  • Increased client confidence in the agency's strategic leadership.
  • Ability to foster a collaborative relationship among colleagues, partner agencies and clients

Requirements

Duties

Core Responsibilities:

  • Lead strategic development across all client work-streams.
  • Translate brand platform proposition into clear, actionable communication strategies.
  • Develop integrated campaign strategies spanning brand, content, and channel planning.
  • Partner closely with creative teams to shape ideas that are both powerful with confidence.
  • Ensure consistency and coherence across multiple campaigns and touch-points.
  • Maintain strategic rigour under pressure and across scale.

Key Skills and Experience:

  • Mid to senior-level strategist experience, ideally with large, complex, or regulated brands. 
  • Strong grounding in brand strategy, communications planning, and storytelling.
  • Experience working with structured brand frameworks.
  • Excellent articulation, structuring, and presentation skills.
  • Calm, detail-oriented, and resilient in high-governance environments. 
  • Strong collaborative mindset with clear strategic point of view.

Posted on 11 Feb 15:41, Closing date 12 Mar

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Avatar Agency is a trailblazer in Africa’s creative landscape, with a legacy spanning over a decade. Our vision is to liberate African creativity for client impact, and we are at the forefront of shaping and evolving the creative industry in Africa.

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