Senior Strategist

ABOUT GAIN INBOUND

Gain Inbound is a contemporary creative and media agency with expertise in driving relevance for clients and delivering impactful business results. The independently-owned agency was founded in 2016 and has offices in Muscat, and Dubai.

Overall Purpose

Strategy at Gain Inbound provides a crucial perspective on the business dynamics. We are a human-centric, culture-obsessed discipline where we dive deep into audience insights, media trends, cultural shifts, and tech innovations that inform our strategic recommendations. Our team is collectively redefining and modernizing the way our clients harness consumer and cultural intelligence, develop brand strategy and plan for attention.

KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

Design research recommendations through the use of insights resources and proprietary tools
Design and deploy quantitative surveys and analyze data for actionable insights and intelligence.
Well versed with the ability to leverage Gain Inbound tools, research, and platforms to:
- Identify the most valuable audiences for our clients, balancing longer-term brand building objectives and real/near-real-time results to be achieved.
- Conduct social listening and content audits.
- Conduct audience, category, and brand analysis; leveraging our data, licensed data, and/or clients’ 1st Party data.
- Collaborate with Analytics and Media to ensure a robust plan to measure the performance (in real/near-real time), increasing the probability of success through ongoing optimization.
Brings the consumer’s world to life for creative teams and clients using qualitative and cultural mining and insightful synthesis of quantitative research to inform a strategic approach.
Develop distinct and differentiated audience segmentations that are connected to strategic decisions and creative ways-in.
Articulate effective strategic rationale and logic flow that will help form a compelling story
Input to the strategic development of client presentations and other important communication in a clear manner
Develop weekly learning agendas in partnership with Strategy leads, and execute all relevant research and data analysis.
Be actively involved in the briefing of creative teams for ideation and steer/facilitate brainstorms and workshops.
Ability to manage your workload, understanding how to prioritize and communicate when support is needed.

EXPERIENCE/KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED

3-5 years experience with strategically building brands, within the advertising industry
Experience using secondary research tools such as Crimson Hexagon, MRI, and Mintel, and is able to select and mine appropriate resources efficiently and effectively to answer insights requests.
Familiarity with, and ability to capably review qualitative and quantitative research plus behavioral data to draw and interpret insights.
Ability to collaborate with the people of an organization, fostering strong cross-functional teamwork and positive results.
Strategic thinking ability with a balanced analytical and creative approach to integrated marketing planning.
Understanding of multiple channels for communications and connections, and their role in brand and content marketing.
Self-motivated and demonstrates initiative in identifying opportunities, discerning a clear path forward, and acting upon them swiftly.

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