Senior strategist with FS experience FTC 2.5 days a week at M&C Saatchi

About the Role

A fixed term contract from 1st Nov - 31st Mar 2026 at 2.5days a week. 

Option for this to be flexible, working more days some weeks and condensing others. 

This Senior Strategist role is to work on a new business win in the financial services category for the Investment Authority (IA).

It’s a brief unlike any other as it’s ambition is to create a new culture of investing in the UK. The IA has got backing from a vast number of high street banks, digital banks  and investment companies to launch what will be a multi-channel large scale campaign by March.  

What you’ll do

• Understand the category and wider landscape in which our clients business operates  
• Create briefs which can be the springboard to extraordinary work focussing on demonstrating effectiveness.
• Be responsible for the evaluation and optimisation of strategies and creative work accordingly. 
• You will feel confident talking to, developing briefs for and presenting strategies and work to senior clients (to Marketing Manager/Director level), with the support of the Head of Strategy. 
• Understand the latest platform developments and capabilities across digital channels 
• Create briefs and help tailor creative which works across channels understanding which channels reach audiences, how platforms are being used and optimise communications across channels 
• Be able to write social first strategies that create talked about ideas  

About You 

You will be in fearsome pursuit of driving strategies which can springboard into brilliant creative ideas  (which might live at any part of the consumer journey). You will bring a positive, up-for-it, interested  approach to everything you do and be a cultural lighthouse in order to fuel creativity. 

What you bring

• Experience in integrated campaigns that drive effectiveness 
• Confidence around creative work, influencing and shaping creative ideas 
• Experience of financial services is a bonus but not mandatory