Digital Strategist (Senior) - Midrand at Accenture

Responsibilities (include but not limited to):

• Brand Stewardship Business Partnership
• Build client relationship at a senior level, by consistently delivering strategic counsel that adds value to the client's business
• Partner with our client to build strong, successful brands in the respective category
• Demonstrate a clear and in depth understanding of the client's business and drive advertising that delivers effectively against their business objectives
• Help to identify digital strategy and creative opportunities

Creative Excellence

• Actively work with creative teams to provide a deeper understanding of the brief at hand to successfully deliver stand out creative and digital work
• Provide inspiration from insight and thinking that will give way to ideas that accelerate creative and digital success with the client
• Manage information sharing with client and disciplines to enable creative opportunities to be more easily identified
• Assist in selling creative work and ensuring the quality of work
• Keep abreast with advertising and digital trends within industry best practice

Cultural Fit

• Drive digital thought leadership with all internal stakeholders
• Contribute to a happy, focused and motivated Strategy department
• Support and collaborate with Client Service on a day to day basis
• Assist in building integrated relationships across and with all stakeholders

Qualifications

Qualification/ Experience / Skill

• Tertiary qualification in Marketing or Digital Marketing
• Minimum 4 years working experience as a Senior Digital Strategist in a Digital Agency or an Advertising Agency
• Proficient in Office 365 (i.e. MS Teams / SharePoint / Word / Excel etc.)
• TTL & Digital experience is essential (well versed in Digital)
• A good command of the English language (written and verbal)
• Strong research skills (ability to interpret all findings)
• Strong time management skills
• Strong presentation skills

Personal Attributes

• Team player with the ability to work independently
• Ability to work collaboratively with team members and take feedback and guidance gracefully
• Ability to remain calm in a fast-paced environment
• Innate sense of curiosity and open to new ideas and new ways of working (and technologies)
• Resilient
• Reliable
• Accountable
• Meticulous with attention to detail
• Other: Comfortable to work on-site