Creative Strategist - Manager
M&C Saatchi Group
IndiaremotePosted 17 days ago
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Key highlights
- 3-5 years of experience required
- Global role supporting APAC, EMEA, and the Americas
- Collaborative, forward-thinking team environment
- Equal Opportunity Employer with inclusive culture
Role overview
We are a leading performance marketing agency with a mobile-first legacy, delivering data-driven, ROI-focused solutions by blending media strategy with creative excellence. We seek a Creative Strategist to fuse data, media insights, and creativity to develop bold ideas for our clients. This role sits at the intersection of strategic planning and creative concept development, collaborating with media, data, and creative teams to bring ideas to life across platforms. Reporting to the Global Strategy Director in Sydney, the role supports APAC, EMEA, and the Americas as part of a centralized global strategy team.
Responsibilities
- Transform consumer insights and media data into compelling, creative-led strategies.
- Develop big ideas and solutions that bridge media and creative, ensuring they align with client objectives.
- Craft narratives that bring creative strategies to life, demonstrating how they will perform across digital and traditional media channels.
- Utilize quantitative and qualitative data to inform and validate creative solutions, ensuring campaigns are insight-led and results-driven.
- Collaborate with media planners and account teams to ensure creative ideas are scalable and tailored to key media platforms.
- Ensure creative output is grounded in a deep understanding of the customer journey and digital behaviors.
- Present creative strategies, ideas, and recommendations to clients in a compelling and articulate way.
- Work closely with internal creative, media, and account teams to ensure seamless integration of creative solutions into broader marketing strategies.
- Champion the role of creativity within the agency and with clients, driving innovative thinking and approaches.
- Stay on top of emerging trends in media, creativity, and technology to inform and inspire new ideas.
- Identify innovative ways to leverage media platforms and creative formats to push boundaries and deliver impactful campaigns.
Requirements
- 3-5 years of experience in strategic planning, creative strategy, or brand strategy.
- Proven ability to develop big creative ideas rooted in insights, with experience bringing those ideas to life across channels.
- Strong understanding of digital media platforms (Paid Social, Programmatic, Search) and how creative impacts media performance.
- Ability to translate data, audience insights, and trends into actionable creative strategies.
- Excellent storytelling, presentation, and client-facing skills.
- A collaborative mindset, with the ability to work across disciplines and markets in a fast-paced environment.
- Passion for innovative thinking, creativity, and the evolving digital marketing landscape.
Nice to have
- Experience across multiple markets.
Benefits
- Part of a global team that thrives on creative and strategic innovation.
- Opportunity to drive creative solutions for some of the world's leading brands, backed by strong insights and a collaborative, forward-thinking team.
Additional details
- M+C Saatchi Performance as part of M+C Saatchi Group has pledged its commitment to create a company that values difference, with an inclusive culture.
- M+C Saatchi Group continues to be an Equal Opportunity Employer which does not and shall not discriminate, celebrates diversity and bases all hiring and promotion decisions solely on merit, without regard for any personal characteristics.
- All employee information is kept confidential according to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
- Originally posted on Himalayas.