Deputy Head of Strategy & Planning
Are you passionate about dev people, solving complex client challenges, generous with your thinking, excited by the opportunity to shape great work and grow 23red strategy. We would love to chat
23red is a purpose-driven creative agency. We create brands, campaigns and experiences that change behaviour for the better and have a positive impact on people and the planet.
Whether it's powering climate action, tackling inequality or helping people live healthier lives, we combine insight, creativity, empathy and evidence to solve complex challenges and create platforms for change.
Our people are motivated by the impact of our work. Everything we do is guided by our values: Collaborative, Curious, Creative, Caring and Clever.
We're part of Capgemini Invent globally and aligned with frog in the UK. We also frequently embrace the power of ‘Collective’ working with other expert partners. Together, we combine the agility of a specialist agency with the scale and expertise of a global network.
OVERVIEW OF THE ROLE:
As our clients' challenges become more complex and our strategic offer continues to grow, we're creating this role to ensure strategy remains one of 23red's defining strengths.
Working alongside the Strategy & Planning Partner, you'll help shape the future of strategy at 23red. This will include continuing to elevate our strategic thinking across, building on our culture of effectiveness and ensuring every brief, recommendation and piece of work benefits from sharper thinking than the last.
You'll remain hands-on on our most important clients and pitches while also focusing your time on continuing to continue to develop an ambitious, supportive and high-performing team where people are challenged to do their best work and growing the influence of strategy across the business.
You'll be an exceptional strategist with the judgement to simplify complex challenges, inspire creative work and influence senior clients and colleagues through insight, behavioural science, creativity, empathy and rigorous effectiveness. You will lead the development of compelling strategies that inspire brilliant work and deliver measurable change across campaigns, brands, experiences and partnerships.
You'll champion work that works. From the outset you'll build learning and measurement into projects, helping continue our culture of experimentation, improvement and effectiveness. Supporting efforts to demonstrate our effectiveness to clients and through award entries.
You'll help shape how we work. You’ll be curious about new approaches and encourage better ways of solving problems – continually improving how strategy is practised. This means encouraging experimentation, embracing new approaches - through research, AI-powered approaches, emerging technologies, collaboration and strategic methods - while ensuring human judgement, creativity, empathy and effectiveness remain at the heart of our work.
You will build effective multidisciplinary teams. Working across 23red, frog and Capgemini Invent, and with our Collective partners you'll work with the Strategy and Planning Partner to shape teams around problems - identifying the right mix of strategists and agency partners (behavioural scientists, researchers, subject matter specialists) for challenges.
You'll help grow and shape the future direction of the agency – spotting opportunities, shaping new offers, contributes to winning new business and building long-term client partnerships. And you’ll help grow our reputation too through thought leadership, industry relationships, new business wins and award-winning work.
Success in this role
Within your first few years you will have helped ensure that:
· Strategy continues to be recognised as one of 23red's defining strengths.
· Our work consistently delivers measurable impact for clients.
· Our strategists are growing, ambitious and producing their best work.
· We win more exciting opportunities because of the quality of our thinking.
· We continue to evolve how strategy is practised as we become closer to Capgemini and frog colleagues, while staying true to what makes great planning great.
DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
We are committed at 23red to creating a team that represents the rich diversity of society and we strive to create a working environment that ensures everyone can be heard and valued for their contributions. We welcome all applications, especially those from individuals who are underrepresented in our industry. This includes people from ethnic minorities, LGBTQI+ people, individuals with disabilities (both seen and unseen) and people of any age and class. In considering candidates, we look for culture add rather than culture fit – we do not seek to create a homogenous culture and value the diversity of perspectives the team bring to the table.
We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.
- Department
- Strategy
- Locations
- London
- Remote status
- Hybrid
London
Perks and Benefits
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Flexible Working
We have a hybrid approach combining 3 days per week working from the offices we share with our Capgemini colleagues in London's St Pauls, and working from home. We also offer flexi-hours.
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Family Friendly Benefits
We offer enhanced Maternity Leave, Paternity Leave, and our gender-neutral Shared Parental Leave policy which is market leading in it's design. It enables fathers / partners to take as much time off, with the same payment terms, as mothers.
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Health and Wellbeing
We have a wealth of Wellbeing benefits including an Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders, a Cycle to Work Scheme and Second Hand Bike Scheme. We also cover costs for eye tests and flu vaccinations, among other things!
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Socialising
Our social committee 'The Saints' organise lots of social events, from our annual summer party, our 'Spool of Yule' Christmas festivities, to cheese and wine evenings, Halloween Spooky Social and more!
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Learning and Development
We hold the IPA's Platinum Award for our learning and development programme. We offer time off for study and endless development opportunities!
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Cultural Allowance
Our much-loved Cultural Allowance provides all staff with £240 per year to spend on any cultural activity that they wish - from theatre, to gigs, to festivals (yes you can spend it on Glasto!) to art classes and gallery trips.
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Incentives and bonuses
We have a company bonus scheme along with our spot awards for work well done (our 'CAKE award') and our 'Do Ron Ron' quarterly award for innovation
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Volunteering
We provide all staff with two paid days per year to volunteer - you can use it as one day or break it into chunks!
Workplace & culture
Our culture is a manifestation of our values. We are:
- Collaborative - none of us are at our best when we work alone. When we work together, we do truly wonderful things!
- Clever - clever is what happens to smart when we overlay a sense of originality and ingenuity.
- Curious - as Lewis Carroll put it "we love jumping down rabbit holes and are quite often so much surprised that for the moment we quite forget how to speak good English."
- Creative - again Lewis Carroll's Alice says it best: "Why, sometimes I've beileved as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
- Caring - we are a people business, and we look after our people.
About 23RED LIMITED
We’re 23red, a creative agency on a mission to create purposeful work that transforms people’s lives.