Strategist

Location : Saudi arabia, Riyadh

department : strategy

Type : Full Time,

Minimum Experience : mid level

ABOUT FOOTBALLCO

Footballco is a global, football focused, digital platform with an ambition to own the entire non-live football landscape worldwide and become THE digital destination for all football fans across the globe. Combining some of the most forward-thinking minds in football, an award winning creative and production function, as well as digital platforms that are loved by 400M fans globally, Footballco aims to own the digital fan ecosystem across the world’s biggest sport.

With 300 permanent employees across the world, Footballco is a diverse, disruptive, brave, dynamic, agile and fun organization. Our work-hard, play-hard attitude supports these values – with the football fan always front of mind, leveraging a world class tech platform and our track record of being first to market. We connect fans to football and brands to fans.

ABOUT the role

Footballco is looking for a dynamic, creative and passionate strategist to join our expanding team and supercharge our output. The strategy team sits at the heart of our business, working in partnership with sales, creative, content and client services teams to raise the value of Footballco’s content output and deliver creatively brilliant, and effective, campaigns for our partners and drive meaningful engagement with our audience.

The successful candidate will have the ability to think calmly and creatively under pressure and challenge perceived wisdoms in the drive to find the best solution. You will be expected to be extremely comfortable dealing with senior client contacts and collaborating with multiple senior stakeholders within our own business.

This position is based in our Saudi offices. You will report into the Strategy Director.

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What you'll be doing

• Work closely and collaboratively with key internal stakeholders including sales, client services, creative and editorial teams

• Clarify briefs and commercial challenges

• Support local sales teams on individual proposals and guide them to help improve the overall quality of our commercial proposal output

• Identify relevant insights, and package them in relevant ways

• Be able to identify, validate and communicate a strategic solution to a commercial, brand or audience challenge.

• Clearly brief, inspire and feedback to creative and content eams

• Evaluate concepts and creative work against the original strategy

• Craft content strategies that get the best out of social and digital platforms, delivering measurable results

• Use your ability to clearly communicate, collaborate and persuade to drive projects through to successful conclusions, often within challenging timelines.

• Present proposals to senior client & agency stakeholders

WHAT YOU HAVE

• Over 3 years working in a media, sports marketing, agency or brand strategy role.

• Experience in developing strategic & creative media campaign proposals that deliver on marketing objectives either at an agency, client or media owner.

• Ability to collaborate with commercial and account management teams and comprehensive understanding of how to deliver content-driven campaigns.

• Understanding and experience of the sports, media or entertainment industries within Saudi market.

• Ability to analyse the needs/objectives of brands, media, rights-holders and talent.

• Strong understanding of digital and social platforms and the changing landscape of sports content consumption.

• A rigorous, analytical mind with the ability to combine creativity with performance metrics.

• The ability to create and deliver compelling presentations.

• A collaborative, open and curious mindset

Footballco is a global organization and as such we are fortunate to have employees across a diverse range of backgrounds. We aim to build an environment that is inclusive to all and where everyone feels empowered to be their authentic self.

Footballco is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category.