To support our growth we are looking for an additional leadership-level digital marketing strategist to help create the right digital marketing approaches for our clients and their agencies. This is an outstanding opportunity for an experienced consultant to work with some of the world’s leading brands to create, shape and land digital marketing strategies. You’ll […]
To support our growth we are looking for an additional leadership-level digital marketing strategist to help create the right digital marketing approaches for our clients and their agencies. This is an outstanding opportunity for an experienced consultant to work with some of the world’s leading brands to create, shape and land digital marketing strategies.
- You’ll be a graduate and have spent more than 10 years in the digital and marketing industries, and be at the top of your game
- You’ll be a gifted communicator, who can inspire teams while delivering deep knowledge
- You’ll be a brilliant digital strategist who can intuitively sense weaknesses in marketing campaigns and digital ideas
- You’ll be experienced working on global brands, at the cutting edge of the digital media industry
- You’ll be as confident creating the digital strategy for a brands as you are training marketing teams to give them the knowledge and skills they need to plan digital effectively
- The digital disciplines you’ll be confident in leading discussions on include search, content strategy, analytics, social media, ecommerce, and advertising
- You’ll be high energy in your presentation delivery, practical in your approach and comfortable rolling up your sleeves to build a strategic plan
- Your experience will include multinational roles, working with large organisations across many countries
- And you’ll thrive in leading edge environments, sharing your knowledge and skills with talented managers – and you’ll be ready to join an elite team who share these passions with you
We’re recruiting this leadership team role to deliver our international digital marketing strategy programmes that transform the knowledge, confidence and skills of some of the world’s best marketers. The role blends digital marketing training, management coaching, digital strategy and management consultancy together to provide a uniquely rich and transformative leap for brands and their teams.
Leading digital marketing coaching
This aspect of the role involves using our processes and materials to train teams of marketers on how to deliver digital marketing brilliantly. You’ll lead a small internal team which includes project management, research, analyst and event management support.
Leading digital strategy development
Using a mix of our processes and those of our clients’, you’ll be leading a client team to refine or build key elements in a brand’s digital strategy. The nature of international project delivery means there is likely to be significant travel, typically in Europe, Asia and the Americas.
Desired digital skills and experience
10 years in leading roles in digital and marketing, with deep knowledge and experience in most of these areas:
- Reading market data; identifying trends
- Customer insight: Using analytics to explain behaviour
- Web content: Content marketing strategy and deployment
- Websites: Design principles and technical fundamentals
- Search: Key approaches for successful optimisation and advertising strategies
- Advertising: Web ad creative and online media planning techniques
- CRM: Email consumer relationship marketing
- Social: Social media and social marketing to build both engagement and reach
- Mobile: The latest range of tools and tactics
- Gaming: Gamification and its role in marketing
- Ecommerce: Online retailing and tactics for boosting sales
- Analytics: Monitoring with accountability to make effective decisions
- Strategy: Approaches to digital strategy for FMCG brands and other key sectors
Desired consulting skills and experience
You’ll be an experienced consultant with the energy and charisma to lead junior and senior teams
- An MBA is preferable, although not essential if you can demonstrate equivalent experience through your career
- Experience in coordinating international training is highly beneficial
- Having client-side experience or digital start-up experience is highly beneficial
- Experience in FMCG is highly beneficial
How to apply?
Email your CV and covering letter to [email protected] As we are recruiting for several roles please include “Digital Trainer & Strategist” in the subjectline. Only contact us by email please.
No recruitment agencies please
We like to talk directly with candidates so we can understand your needs, interests and fit with our team. Only direct applications from candidates will be considered. If agencies are needed we will use our existing roster.
Under-qualified and not sure this is for you?
We’re looking for a highly experienced, world class marketer and digital strategist with a proven track record.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted
We will aim to reply to your application within two weeks. Only those shortlisted for interview will be contacted. We hope you’ll understand.
Closing Date
The closing date for applications is 28th November. Applications received after this date won’t be considered.
Travel requirements and nationality
Digital Strategy Consulting group is an equal opportunity employer, however as this role involves high amounts of travel across Europe, Asia and Americas, it would be best suited to holders of passports that permit easy travel arrangements.
About the Digital Strategy Consulting group
We were created in 2000 by some of the founders of the UK internet industry to help digital publishers and digital agencies build their digital approaches and capabilities. Since then we’ve been helping global brands get their digital strategies right, including product development, content marketing strategies, social media strategies and digital change management. We partner with large organisations to create or refine their digital strategy, develop the capability of their teams and deploy digital and marketing training programmes. We work with marketers who are themselves at the top of their game in sectors that include FMCG, pharma, finance, retail, children’s toys, technology and online media. From our base in London we support teams in more than 50 countries and are recognised as world class in accelerating brands and the teams behind them.
What is it like working at Digital Strategy and the Digital Training Academy?
We have cutting-edge thinking that will keep you ahead of the market. Working with leading global brands will prove insightful, inspiring, demanding and rewarding. We pride ourselves in developing ground-breaking digital thinking about how organisations can accelerate in this space. We are recognised as a world-class specialist, and remain independent of the global agency networks.
The Digital Strategy Consulting group was created by the founder of the Internet Advertising Bureau and has helped brands and agencies in more than 60 countries.
Find out more at www.DigitalTrainingAcademy.com and www.DigitalStrategyConsulting.com
