Mid-Weight Strategist
| 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