Senior Strategist

Storyful is an equal opportunity employer

Job Description :

Storyful, a News Corp company, is a global leader in social media news and intelligence, specializing in contextualization and verification. With a unique ability to gather and streamline data from the vast landscape of an increasingly complex media landscape, we believe in the power of social for a deeper understanding of global events and cultural phenomena.

Storyful Intelligence, our consultancy arm, provides leaders in marketing and

communications with critical, data-driven insights and strategic consultancy, focused on mitigating reputational risk.

Job Summary:

As Sr Strategist, you will play an instrumental role in developing and delivering business-critical insights for our clients. Drawing on both your strategic and analytic experience, you will provide our clients with insight and strategic guidance to drive marketing and comms success. Your ability to drive data-driven strategies from conception to completion and your talent for storytelling will help us provide great experiences for our clients.

Responsibilities:

Client Engagement and Growth

Develop a strong understanding of the client’s business and strategy to ensure deliverables are aligned with strategic objectives

Translate data and analysis into actionable social insights to produce impactful strategies that can be applied to client needs

Lead presentations to clients across the project lifespan, including research briefings and strategic workshops

Serve as a key point of collaboration to drive client engagement across programs

Own ideation around client recommendations, working with internal and external stakeholders to develop impactful ideas that can be put into action

Research and Insights Management

Take ownership of the client brief, translating client needs into achievable research and strategy questions that inform research design

Serve as the arbiter of quality across outputs produced for clients, working with editorial, project management and design teams to meet internal standards

Manage the lifespan of the client project, coordinating internal resources and maintaining oversight of team outputs to ensure on-time delivery

Conduct research across a diverse set of sources, specifically social and digital media, influencer engagement, consumer sentiment and narratives to drive recommendations

Innovation and Thought Leadership

Work with team leadership to maintain and improve existing methodologies and approaches to ensure Storyful stays ahead of the curve

Collaborate with product teams to drive tool development and innovation

Drive internal expertise around relevant industries, staying ahead of emerging trends and the opportunities they may represent for our clients

Serve as a subject matter expert to support insight production for marketing and pre-sales engagements, including authoring blogs and newsletters

Skills & Experience desired:

Four to six years of relevant experience within a social media, corporate communications, marketing, consultancy, media or brand environment

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Strong qualitative and quantitative research abilities; including ability to glean creative insights across disparate data signals

Experience delivering strategic guidance and insights for clients, which could include cultural, audience and digital insights for marketing, comms or strategic use cases.

Strong project management skills, preferably in a high-paced environment with a deadline-driven culture

Ability to brainstorm and ideate, ideally both internally as well as in client workshops

BA/MA qualified in a related discipline

Fluency in a non-English language is a plus, but not required.

Experience using online monitoring tools such as Brandwatch, Zignal, Meltwater, Netbase Quid, and BuzzSumo a plus.

Join us at Storyful Intelligence and be part of a team that shapes the future of data-driven insights and strategic consultancy in the ever-evolving world of media and communications. Apply now to make an impact with Storyful!

Job Category:Storyful - Intelligence

Pay Range: 55,000 - 72000

We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, location, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.

Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Similarly to salary, for bonus eligible roles, targets are set based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice.

For benefits eligible roles, in addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce.

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