Senior Strategic Planner

Ogilvy Health Canada • Toronto, ON

2d • CA$90,000 - CA$140,000

About The Position

The Senior Strategic Planner is responsible for leading high-impact strategic initiatives for clients and brands and serves as a key strategic partner for day-to-day requests on strategic needs. This role is a key internal support for both Account Services and Creative to raise the overall quality of our deliverables, communications, and creative output. The Senior Strategic Planner leverages industry knowledge to provide critical insights and will deliver compelling research, ideas and strategic recommendations for positioning a client’s business/products to customers/consumers.

Requirements

• 5 to 7 years of strategic planning experience within an advertising or marketing agency
• A customer-first mindset with sound knowledge of data, statistical analytical methods, and measurement principles.
• Deep marketing knowledge, business acumen, and an inherent curiosity to uncover the truth behind consumer and patient behaviors.
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills, with a natural presence that builds trust with clients and internal teams.
• Proactive, with excellent collaborative skills and the ability to identify strategic opportunities across brands, campaigns, and markets, balanced with a high degree of personal accountability.
• Hands-on experience with professional analytics platforms (e.g., Google Analytics/Adobe Analytics, custom dashboards, e-commerce) and social media analytic tools.
• Experience collecting socio/psycho/demographic and behavioral information through primary research and secondary data collection, including experience with social listening platforms (such as Brandwatch).
• Strong understanding of search engine marketing (SEM/PPC), social media marketing (paid and earned), and digital media dynamics.

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience or deep interest in pharma, healthcare, and/or wellness is highly valued.

Responsibilities

• Identify, gather, and analyze information from various sources to understand customer, patient, and consumer behaviour, as well as emerging market trends.
• Strategize and architect holistic, digital-first go-to-market plans for a diverse portfolio of brands across the Canadian market, guiding agency teams during the definition, brief, design, and development phases.
• Lead high-profile strategic workshops internally, with clients, and with their cross-functional teams to collaborate on brand strategies, patient journeys, and tactical planning.
• Drive customer engagement strategies as an expression of broader brand strategies, developing integrated campaigns across email, web, search, media, and social channels (as well as leveraging creator collaborations and emergent technologies).
• Partner with internal creative, account, and production teams to distill insights and build comprehensive strategies that include customer journeys, messaging maps, tactics, and campaign blueprints.
• Review and audit established plans to identify gaps, trends, and opportunities within an omnichannel marketing ecosystem, using data to optimize campaign impact.
• Provide internal and client-facing consulting when crafting channel-specific recommendations, actively keeping teams ahead of the curve regarding best practices and emerging digital trends.
• Contribute to new business pitches and organic growth opportunities by developing compelling integrated strategies that showcase the agency's modern strategic capabilities.

Benefits

• Ogilvy Health celebrates its people. Fully. Enthusiastically. Unhesitatingly. We’ll empower you with the tools you’ll need to succeed. We’ll give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. We’ll support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. And we’ll provide opportunities for you to do work of which you’ll be proud with people you’ll be proud to call your teammates.
• Ogilvy Health Canada employees are encouraged to bring their ideas, experiences and perspectives, gleaned from their varied backgrounds to the workplace. We strive to create an environment in which all employees can feel comfortable to contribute to their fullest potential without regard to their race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed