Senior Manager - Strategy & Insights

Saatchi & Saatchi has grown from a start-up advertising agency in London in 1970 to a global creative communications company with 114 offices in 67 countries and over 6500 employees. Saatchi & Saatchi is part of the Publicis Groupe, the world’s third largest communications group We are a full service, integrated communications network and we work with 6 of the top 10 and over half of the top 50 global advertisers. We’re in the business of getting people to fall in love with our clients’ products and services. We have an unshakeable spirit and unbeatable attitude that Nothing is Impossible, a concept we apply to all our clients and work. We believe in effecting positive change through creativity, always. While we seek out the most brilliant minds to help us on our quest, we’re also passionate about nurturing the best talent from within. Which is why when you join us, your journey can be one of continuous evolution. 

Self

-Takes ownership for actions and deals with consequences in a mature manner. 

-Takes an active role in the change process and gives credit and support to those driving the change. 

- Builds strong relationships with others through trust and honesty. 

 -Is a transformational talent with a deep understanding of the organization’s purpose. 

- Adjusts job performance based on past experiences and feedback. 

- Remains open to ideas of others and leverages them when beneficial for the business. 

- Shows a strong sense of prioritization and effectively manages communication on deliverables with relevant stakeholders. 

- Ability to self manage projects from start to finish. 

- Shows a high level of ethics and integrity.  

 -Is passionate, enthusiastic and makes that contagious within the team and the agency. 

 -Positively challenges the status quo. 

- Is confident and a great presenter and storyteller. 

- Able to juggle many projects and responsibilities and manage expectations effectively. 

People

-Is a formal leader in the team and seen as a mentor by junior strategy and communications consultancy team members. 

-Drives close working relationships with internal communication consultancy teams to understand business challenges consistently. 

-Manages relationships with communication consultancy and creative teams to uncover and build solutions that deliver and exceed client expectations.

-Holds an understanding of groups within Publicis Groupe and their key value propositions and proposes those to strategy leadership. 

-Is a go-to person for Groupe leadership on proactive initiatives for the agency, earned through consistent proactivity and enthusiasm.

-Is a supporter and endorser of diversity in the workplace in interactions and on client briefs. 

-Displays conscious inclusion at the workplace and on client briefs. 

Business Acumen & Operations

-Is knowledgeable about the client's category and business. 

-Oversees successful reviews of work and final delivery of assignments and tasks for clients and pitches.

-Oversees development of client presentations that succinctly but effectively tell the story and appropriately positions the work for success.

-Oversees category and competitive landscape assessments.

-Plans client workshops and actively participates.

-Ensures monitoring of social, cultural and technological trends along with their impact on attitudes and behaviours.

-Displays attention to detail when producing reports and updates to stakeholders.

-Ensures consistent monitoring of every campaign's performance for clients - brand, business and media, and builds optimization plans for the next campaigns.

-Nourishes and safeguards client relationships, maintains contact, is proactive with knowledge-sharing and builds a strong rapport.

-Strategic & Transformative 

-Market Research: Designs and executes original methods of primary research producing actionable reports.

-Ideation: Sythesizes complex information into compelling stories and inspiring creative opportunities.

-Competitive Analysis: Drives  analysis about (and hence, is aware of) threats and opportunities for clients. Shares with others.

-Presentation Development: Engages in presentations with clear narratives that are insightful and distinctive vs. typical strategists.

-Strategic proactivity: Keeps cross-functional teams focused on higher-level strategic goals of the brand, and keeps inspiring through proactive opportunities.

-Strategic partnership: Maintains an authentic trust with clients and agency teams, based on competence, reliability and value.

-Technical & Product

-Actively uses and advocates the Publicis Groupe FUEL platform.

-Deconstructs past award submissions to identify key components of a successful story and discusses findings consistently. 

-Comes up with proactive briefs for clients based on qualified opportunities.

-Leads the client's Effectiveness awards entries and submissions, regionally and globally.

-Support creative teams on Creative awards for clients.

-Is focused on being revelatory vs. boring as a strategist. Insights need to be insightful vs facts or observations.

-Is persistent about improving the craft of the strategic thinking behind briefs.

-Attends trainings - internal and external - promptly.

-Drives the team to scour culture for new uses of tehcnology, data and design to weave innovative thinking into strategic work.

-Leads and creates focused, insightful and inspiring connections plans with creative briefs (not just a briefing springboard).

-Manages and drives support primary and secondary research: 1) for clients, and 2) for the agency.

-Shows ability to synthesize qualitative and quantitative data from sources available, to provide strategic implications and creative inspiration.

-Participates in agency new business pitches and creates an impact through detailed and distinctive strategic thinking.

-Min 7 years experience working in a strategy role

-Agency experience would be preferred

-Bachelors degree is a must

-Self starter & Self motivated

-Fluency in Arabic would be preferred