Job Description
Job purpose:
At FCB, we look for strategists who can craft insightful strategies that inspire great ideas to solve real business problems. Our purpose is to unleash creativity across the consumer journey, to simultaneously build brands and drive businesses. We want people who embrace that challenge. We firmly believe that there are more than enough incredibly talented people in this world who also happen to be nice. Those are the ones we hire.
Our ambition for you: we want you to do the best work of your career here.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Creates inspiring strategies and is able to pull the strategy through the entire creative process from start to finish
- Serves as a resource for creative team on brand and consumer, brand and business issues
- Can easily identify potential hurdles for the business and take the lead on solving them
- Serves as lead on multiple projects
- Strong leadership skills to guide internal teams as well as client conversations, workshops and direction
- Demonstrates an understanding of social platforms and digital media and an ability to develop strategies for those channels
- Forges strong relationships with mid and senior-level marketing clients
- Is equally comfortable with creative teams and clients
- Earns the trust and respect of team members through understanding of consumer issues, leveraging insights, writing briefs and conducting briefings
Qualifications:
- Has earned a bachelor’s degree or college degree/diploma in a relevant field
- Collaborative nature with strong strategic rigor
- 5+ years of relevant industry experience
- Has a wide comfort zone when it comes to interpreting Quantitative and Qualitative research, and in using results for both insight and creative development
- Easily translates high-level creative thinking into actionable steps
- Displays a proven record of innovative ideas, approaches and final work product
The Company welcomes and encourages applications from people with visible and non-visible disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruiting and selection process.
FCB is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in our agency. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and to be recognized by Ad Age as one of the Best Places to Work 2020. FCB does not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of citizenship, race, place of origin, ethnic origin, colour, ancestry, disability, age, creed, sex/pregnancy, family status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression, or any other protected ground under applicable law.