Senior Communication Strategist
About The Position
The Senior Communication Strategist leads the development of communication strategies and helps teams identify new possibilities for bringing ideas to life. The role moves across channels, consumer behavior, creative ideas, and business objectives to turn complexity into compelling communications stories and provide clear direction. The strategist develops communications architectures and integrated campaign plans, translates business, brand, audience, cultural, and media insights into strategic opportunities, and recommends channels, platforms, partnerships, and experiences. The role partners with creative teams, media agencies, and other stakeholders; leads workstreams and presentations; guides and reviews junior strategists’ work; teaches communications strategy fundamentals; and stays current with changes in media behavior, platforms, culture, technology, and measurement. The position calls for a collaborative, organized, media-fluent strategic thinker and persuasive storyteller who can manage multiple workstreams, navigate cross-functional teams, and develop others. Omnicom policy requires employees to work in the office at least three days per week, unless additional in-office days are directed by the agency or manager.
Requirements
- Approximately 4–7 years of relevant experience in communications planning, media strategy, integrated strategy, or a related discipline.
- Strong knowledge across a diverse range of media channels and consumer touchpoints.
- Demonstrated ability to develop communication strategies independently.
- Experience identifying insights and building strategic narratives.
- Strong presentation and client-facing skills.
- Ability to guide junior team members and direct their work.
- Cross-discipline experience across Creative, Brand, Media, Analytics, and Account.
- Ability to turn information into insight and insight into action.
- Strong storytelling skills and the ability to create clarity from complexity.
- Comfort expressing and defending a point of view.
- Collaborative and emotionally intelligent, with the ability to navigate different disciplines and personalities.
- Proactive, highly organized, and able to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously.
Responsibilities
- Lead development of communications strategies, architectures, and integrated campaign plans.
- Translate business, brand, audience, cultural, and media insights into clear strategic opportunities.
- Develop compelling insights and strategic narratives that inspire creative and media thinking.
- Recommend channels, platforms, partnerships, and experiences based on the role each can play in an idea.
- Bring creative media thinking into the process by identifying unexpected ways ideas can live, engage, and spread.
- Partner closely with creative teams to strengthen ideas.
- Work with media agencies and partners to ensure media recommendations support strategic and creative ambition.
- Lead key workstreams and presentations with clients and internal teams.
- Navigate cross-functional teams, resolve ambiguity, and provide direction to more junior strategists.
- Review and improve junior team members’ strategic work.
- Teach communications strategy fundamentals across the department and agency.
- Stay ahead of changes in media behavior, platforms, culture, technology, and measurement.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
