Senior Strategist

The Mx Group is looking for a Senior Strategist to work on global brands making a significant impact on our world — in fiber packaging, energy technology and manufacturing. This is a unique opportunity to work with companies who are transforming their categories with innovative solutions. The ideal candidate is an independent thinker with a bias for action. You’ll have an innate curiosity for content, deep understanding of digital channels avid interest in emerging tactics, best practices, and technology platforms. A follower of popular culture with a developed eye for excellence in creative work, you’ll focus on building out a best-in-class B2B marketing programs that includes brand activation, customer acquisition, and advocacy.

What You’ll Do

• Insights | Provide rich audience, category and competitive insights to develop innovative approaches to solve client’s core business challenges.
• Client Partnerships | Partner with account leadership to support the overall management of client business relationships including strategy development, creation of briefs and briefing teams, campaign performance monitoring, and results reporting.
• Data Analysis | Collect, analyze, and interpret information from a variety of sources: market data, cultural and social trends monitoring, products and services research, qualitative interviews/conversations, observational research to support business plans and creative strategies.
• Inspiration | Work with a multi-faceted team of strategy, creative, CX, technology and data professionals frame and inspire client deliverables, leading to flawless execution. Apply intelligence analysis, key performance indicators, and program measurement to make observations and surface insights that can inspire creative and lead to innovative, exciting solutions for clients’ business/product.
• Thought Leadership | Use your experience and knowledge to inspire and motivate agency and client teams.

Who You Are

• A connector | Creator with a desire to bring people together. Innate ability to help people see the value in ideas.
• Open | Our team is growing and supportive, but still forming. You should feel comfortable with ambiguity as we solidify best practices and create better ways of working.
• An entrepreneur | You’re excited by opportunities to explore new ideas in an independent, private company, rather than rely on existing paradigms, and you view technology as a tool that can drive this creativity not just automation.
• Ego-less | No job is too big or small for you. We all think big and dive deep to ensure our success.
• Storyteller | Distill and synthesize information to tell a narrative that matters; strive for a story arc when building brand, program and campaign briefs and messaging

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years in a strategic or account planning role with strong digital experience and understanding of the landscape.
• An understanding of data sources, qualitative and quantitative research methodologies, and a keen eye of when and how to apply them to client challenges.
• Social and digital experience using analytics and experience mapping to illuminate the target audiences’ experiences.
• A self-starter approach and true sense of ownership regarding work at each point of delivery.
• Ability to work autonomously knowing when to engage manager and greater integrated team.
• Strong interpersonal/communication skills; you will be face-to-face with clients and internal departments at their busiest moments.
• Technically proficient in presentation planning and development.

About Us

A leading B2B marketing agency, The Mx Group is one of the fastest growing agencies in the U.S. We consistently receive awards for both our work and our company culture, including being named one of the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For in Chicago for seven years in a row. We’ve been solving complex marketing challenges for more than 30 years. We accomplish this by harnessing the power of connections, delivering significant impact to our clients’ revenue and growth. We call this “The Power of X.” The exponential transformation that results in connecting the customer experience through strategy, creative, demand generation and digital development.

Why You'll Love Working Here

In a word: people. In a broader sense: company culture. And some pretty sweet benefits, too.

At The Mx Group, you’ll find we genuinely value and support each other — as people and as coworkers — as we produce award-winning work together. You aren’t likely to find another team so focused on collaboration and so dedicated to success. People choose to work at The Mx Group and choose to stay here because they are empowered to do their best work and able to grow.

We’re proud of the environment we’ve nurtured, and proud to be stronger than ever as we navigate the "new normal." Wherever we're located, we lift each other up and celebrate together, from the latest new business win to the start of Friday summer hours to a rewarding week off at the end of each year.

Plus, we offer a hybrid model and a full benefits package, including gym membership reimbursement, paid parental leave, medical/dental/vision insurance and a 401(k) program. In short, you’re going to love being part of the Mx team.

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The Mx Group is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. That means we not only provide equal opportunity and consideration to all employees and applicants for employment — we welcome it. We won’t unlawfully discriminate on the basis of gender identity or expression, race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, physical or mental disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, and any other category protected by law, because we believe diversity drives us to deliver more valuable and meaningful experiences to clients and employees.

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