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    Mid-Weight Strategist

    Remuneration:market-related 
    Location:Gauteng
    Job level:Mid
    Type:Contract
    Reference:#AA-44
    Company:Avatar Agency

    Job description


    Role Overview

    To take strategic ownership of the portfolio of leading banking client, ensuring high-quality, consistent, and brand-aligned thinking across all communications and campaigns.

     

    What Success looks like
    • Work consistently reflects the brand's intent and standards.
    • Fewer strategic misalignments or late-stage rewrites.
    • Increased client confidence in the agency's strategic leadership.
    • Ability to foster a collaborative relationship among colleagues, partner agencies and clients

     


    Requirements


    Duties

    Core Responsibilities:
    • Lead strategic development across all client work-streams.
    • Translate brand platform proposition into clear, actionable communication strategies.
    • Develop integrated campaign strategies spanning brand, content, and channel planning.
    • Partner closely with creative teams to shape ideas that are both powerful with confidence.
    • Ensure consistency and coherence across multiple campaigns and touch-points.
    • Maintain strategic rigour under pressure and across scale.

     

    Key Skills and Experience:
    • Mid to senior-level strategist experience, ideally with large, complex, or regulated brands. 
    • Strong grounding in brand strategy, communications planning, and storytelling.
    • Experience working with structured brand frameworks.
    • Excellent articulation, structuring, and presentation skills.
    • Calm, detail-oriented, and resilient in high-governance environments. 
    • Strong collaborative mindset with clear strategic point of view.

     

     


    Posted on 11 Feb 15:41, Closing date 12 Mar

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    Avatar Agency is a trailblazer in Africa’s creative landscape, with a legacy spanning over a decade. Our vision is to liberate African creativity for client impact, and we are at the forefront of shaping and evolving the creative industry in Africa.
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