Strategy Consultant, Data Analysis in City of London

Medialab is the UK’s leading independent media agency, and one of the fastest growing in the industry. We’re a media agency that’s made differently: purpose-led, data-driven, founder-run and proudly independent. There are no limits to what you can achieve here, which our employees agree with, evidenced by being a Campaign Best Place to Work for six consecutive years and one of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2025. As well as this, we’re Campaign’s Independent Agency of the Year for both 2024 and 2025 and Media Week’s Independent Agency of the Year 2025.

We work with a wide variety of clients including Hovis, IG, Sharps Bedrooms, SunLife, Standard Life, Ancestry, Laithwaites Wine, Save the Children, Guide Dogs, Alzheimer’s Society, RNLI and Clearscore.

Working at Medialab comes with lots of perks including:

• Competitive salary package
• Pension
• Season ticket loans
• Cycle to work scheme
• Weekly social events
• Big summer / end of year parties
• 22 days holiday (+Christmas holiday closure)
• A day off for your birthday
• Holiday buying scheme
• Flexi-hours and work abroad scheme
• Hybrid Working – Balance between home and office (3 days in the office)
• Meritocratic approach to progression with quarterly reviews
• CPD Platinum accredited training
• Mentoring and leadership support
• Private medical insurance
• Health cash plan
• Gym discounts
• Wellbeing apps
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Free professional counselling
• Enhanced parental leave pay
• Flexible working and life assurance
• Paid charity days and sustainability initiatives
• Retail discounts
• Long-service trips
• An unforgettable team culture

We’re looking for a Strategist to bring focus, direction and energy across a range of our client accounts. You won’t be tied to a single client; instead, you’ll have the opportunity to work across a number of accounts, providing variety and an opportunity to work with a diverse group of media planners. You will be part of the central Media Planning & Strategy team and have a close working relationship with the agency's senior leadership team and Board members.

We are looking for an individual who has real enthusiasm and experience in media and communications planning. Your role is to bring a different perspective, to elevate the quality of our work and create the space for others to do their best work.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leadership of your allocated clients’ strategic output – working with Planning Leads to ensure innovative, cross-channel and insight-led responses on client briefs.
• Help to grow our clients’ business and ensure Medialab is seen as a trusted partner.
• Be the strategic lead for new business pitches, in partnership with the pitch lead, developing a strategy that can be translated through to brilliant planning and effective execution.
• Create strategies that inspire the media planning teams to generate effective, distinctive work that delivers client outcomes and success.
• Coach and inspire Planning Leads and planning team members to become more strategic in their thinking, sharing best practice and innovation.

Requirements:

• Proven experience in media and communications planning, ideally across a variety of categories or brands and experience working on both brand and performance.
• Confidence in audience and industry planning tools and effectiveness frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of industry and audience tools, the ability to analyse and identify the 'so what' from data sets.
• Proven ability of developing strong working relationships with key stakeholders, from client planning teams to senior clients.