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The Senior Executive role in the Strategy & Insights Team is responsible for:
Implementing researches and trendhunting
Implementing effective strategies
Implementing effective presentations
Driving effective creative inspiration
Building a positive repute and rapport with internal teams and clients
Main TasksTechnical & ProductActively uses and advocates the Publicis Groupe FUEL platform.
Actively contributes to every Groupe and Agency OPEN brief.
Reviews past award submissions to identify key components of a successful story and discusses findings consistently.
Plays an active part in the Effectiveness awards entries and submissions.
Plays a part in supporting creative teams on Creative awards.
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.
Scours culture for new uses of tehcnology, data and design to weave innovative thinking into strategic work.
Develops focused, insightful and inspiring connections plans with creative briefs (not just a briefing springboard).
Initiate, conduct as well as 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.
Business Acumen & Operational EfficiencyUnderstands the client's category and business.
Ensures successful reviews of work and final delivery of assignments and tasks for clients and pitches.
Builds client presentations that succinctly but effectively tell the story and appropriately positions the work for success.
Conducts category and competitive landscape assessments.
Assists senior strategy staff in planning client meetings and workshops, and contribute actively in them.
Monitors social, cultural and technological trends along with their impact on attitudes and behaviours.
Participates in client-conducted researches.
Displays attention to detail when producing reports and updates to stakeholders.
Consistently monitors every campaign's performance for clients - brand, business and media.
Able to analyze, interpret and contextualize raw data to derive insights to generate creative solutions, improve campaign performance and drive key learnings
Innovative & Analytical MindsetMarket Research: Formulates a clear hypothesis and consistently recommends both formal and informal research for clients and agency.
Ideation: Inspires creative thinking, elevating ideas and concepts.
Competitive Analysis: Conducts analysis about (and hence, is aware of) threats and opportunities for clients.
Presentation Development: Contributes to and delivers incremental value to a client presentation.
Strategic proactivity: Plans strategic briefs for problems of clients that have not been discussed yet - through active reading and hunting.
Strategic partnership: Builds a detailed profile of client/s that is inclusive of potential challenges to their business or category.
Bachelors or Masters degree in marketing, research, data or business
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