Sr Manager, Strategy

Senior Strategy Manager

A Senior Strategy Manager leads the development of integrated communications strategies within a media agency, turning complex business challenges into clear, actionable plans.

Working across a major fashion retailer and a global aeronautics client, this role balances cultural relevance with commercial impact, shaping strategies that drive both brand and business growth.

Partnering closely with planning, investment, analytics, activation, and creative teams, the Senior Strategy Manager develops audience‑first communications strategies that connect insight, media, and data to deliver measurable business outcomes.

The role is hybrid, with three days onsite each week and two days of remote work flexibility.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategy & Storytelling
• Lead end‑to‑end strategy development, from insight to activation
• Translate business challenges into clear communications tasks and channel roles
• Craft compelling narratives that align creative, media, and data
• Present confidently to clients and internal stakeholders
• Build simple, scalable frameworks that elevate strategic output on both a local and global level
• Client Leadership & Integration
• Act as day‑to‑day strategic lead for key client workstreams
• Build trusted relationships with mid‑to‑senior client stakeholders
• Lead integrated discussions across creative, media, and activation teams
• Run workshops, planning sessions, and project meetings independently
• Act as a strategic sparring partner to creative and other teams, ensuring ideas are rooted in audience insight, media behaviour and measurable communications effect
• Insight & Planning
• Identify and apply shifts across culture, consumer behaviour, category, and brand
• Turn insights into clear opportunities and actionable strategies
• Shape full‑funnel, connected ecosystem plans with defined roles for each channel
• Ensure a clear link from insight through to execution in all outputs
• Define clear measurement frameworks, learning agendas and effectiveness principles that connect strategy to business outcomes, media KPIs and post‑campaign optimisation
• Growth & Agency Contribution
• Play a key role in new business pitches and strategic responses
• Mentor junior team members and elevate team output
• Contribute to thought leadership and case studies
• Bring fresh, distinctive thinking that pushes the agency forward
• Identify emerging media, technology and cultural opportunities, including AI, creator, commerce and partnership‑led solutions, and translate them into practical client recommendations

Requirements

• 4–7 years’ experience in media, communications, or advertising strategy
• Strong strategic thinking and commercial understanding
• Excellent storytelling and presentation skills
• Confidence leading projects and client conversations independently
• Collaborative mindset with the ability to inspire cross‑functional teams
• Curiosity, resilience, and a drive to continuously improving
• Entrepreneurial streak, excited to bring ideas and new opportunities to the agency
• Highly skilled individual looking to learn, push and build something special in a casual and collaborative environment
• Location
• London, UK (Hybrid/Flexible – 3 days onsite, 2 days remote)
• Employment Type
• Full‑time, Permanent
• Right to Work

Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application. Crossmedia is unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role.

Benefits

• Flexibility to work in hybrid manner with in‑office and work from home options (depending on role)
• Open/Flexible PTO with US & UK specific policies
• Sponsored healthcare options and agency‑wide physical & mental health support
• 401k with company match (USA), and generous Pension (UK)
• Paid sabbatical at significant milestone anniversaries
• Generous paid parental leave policy
• Life milestone recognition & support
• The Pursuit of Happiness Fund devoted to helping Crossmedians find their happiness (be it travel, enrichment class, fitness membership or professional development)
• Cell phone/tech reimbursement
• Student Loan payment plan (US)
• Tuition reimbursement
• Learning & Development and training programs
• Burgers – lots and lots of burgers
• Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Crossmedia is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and creating a diverse and inclusive company culture and that does not discriminate against candidates and employees because of their disability, sex, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law.

All job requirements are subject to possible revision to reflect changes in the position requirements, business necessities and/or to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.

Essential and other job functions are subject to modification.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to which will be required in this position.

Employees will be required to follow other job‑related duties as requested by their supervisor/manager (within guidelines and compliance with laws in the US and UK).

Continued employment remains on an “at‑will” basis.

Reasonable accommodations may be provided to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions in compliance with the American with Disabilities Act of 1990 (US based).

• Physical Demands
• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer. Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time.
• Ability to stand, bend, and reach
• Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer.
• The ability to communicate information and ideas so others will understand. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations.
• The ability to observe details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).

If you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation to apply for a position with Crossmedia, please email people. team@xmedia. com (US based candidates).

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