ABOUT NORTH STRATEGIC

North Strategic is Canada’s fastest-growing, national public relations and digital media agency. In just six short years, North has grown to three offices across Canada with more than 60 full-time team members specialising in PR, social media, and content creation. The first PR agency in Canada to eliminate timesheets, our unorthodox structure allows every member of our team the complete flexibility to work collaboratively and cross-train between each of our three disciplines.

North is agency of record for many of the most recognized and sought after brands in Canada – including Samsung, Canada Goose, American Express, Cadillac Fairview and many others – due in large part to our team’s track record for creating exciting, disruptive, and market-leading work. Our industry has noticed.

North is the only PR agency to be named to Marketing Magazine’s Top 10 agencies in Canada for three consecutive years. North was also recognized by the prestigious New York City-based Holmes Report as Canada’s PR Agency of the Year in 2015 and in 2017 we won Canada's Top 10 Most Admired Corporate Culture in the Growth category.

These achievements are a strong reinforcement of the work we do for our clients, but it is our unwavering commitment to our team – the people who create our award-winning content – that has positioned North as one of the most desired agencies to work for in Canada.

Are you the kind of entrepreneurial, creative, dynamic and just generally awesome person we’re looking for?

If so, it’s time to Go North Now.

POSITION OVERVIEW

As a Senior Digital Strategist, your job is to partner with clients to relentlessly pursue the best ROI, with a focus on identifying and leveraging new trends, executing programs, and developing client relationships. An essential ingredient of your success is the ability to partner and collaborate with a number of internal and external stakeholders.

This role requires a passionate team leader with very strong creative, strategic thinking and organizational abilities. A strategic, creative and analytical thinker who can create omni channel media strategies for our clients.

In this position, you will be developing and managing digital strategies, programs and teams coupled with a solid understanding of the constantly evolving media landscapes. You are a passionate team player with very strong creative, strategic thinking and organizational abilities.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:

CLIENT FOCUS:

• Develop and oversee integrated digital marketing strategies – Search, Display, Email & Social
• Provide and lead the digital and social strategy for campaigns and programs and ensure that all objectives are being met - Analyze client goals strategically and creatively present insights and strategies as appropriate
• Creation of strong, compelling and strategic media recommendations on how digital channels can be used to integrate the consumer journey and being able to define the role of digital
• Experience leading and executing paid media programs on social and digital channels including Google, Facebook and Display – Identify trends and insights, to optimize spend and performance based on the insights
• Inform the buy optimization process, ensuring that the rationale and actions are clearly aligned with digital strategy and managed with client
• Design the measurement framework and KPIs based on clients’ desired outcome
• Analyze campaigns, recommend solutions and translate into plans as well as actions for ongoing campaign improvement
• Understand North’s digital and social media reporting tools; ability to independently manage or guide account teams in creating digital reports for existing clients
• Work with creative team to inform direction based on data and insights
• Provide insights on emerging media and new, digital opportunities
• Demonstrate a superior understanding of the Canadian digital and social landscape and update broader team on emerging trends in the industry
• Participate in client presentations and support new business pitches specific to digital, social strategies, research, campaign analysis, etc.
• Be a preferred point of contact and demonstrate the ability to work effectively with numerous platform partners and vendor relationships
• Ability to work collaboratively with other agency partners
• Exercise financial and organizational discipline: help manage budgets to ensure agency profitability
• Seek out organic business opportunities by providing recommendations for future campaigns within campaign reports, based on platform/industry news or seasonal opportunities
• Evaluate emerging technologies and capability to market. Provide thought leadership and perspective for adoption where appropriate

COLLABORATION / TEAM LEADERSHIP:

• Passionately committed to collaboration
• Coaching, developing and mentoring junior team members – lead direct report(s) in planning and execution
• Understand your strengths and how to transfer your knowledge to others in order to help them succeed
• Delegate effectively, setting clear expectations and deadlines, and providing needed resources for success
• Contribute to the career development process of team members by serving as a strategic mentor
• Ability to work in a collaborative, creative, entrepreneurial and fast-paced environment
• Excellent communication skills, dynamic, team player, excellent time management and organizational skills Excellent cross-functional leadership, presentation and communication skills; dynamic team player
• Strong interpersonal abilities to effectively manage all internal and external relationships, vendors and agency partners

INNOVATION / CREATIVITY:

• Attend conferences & liaise with key partners (i.e. Facebook/Instagram, Google etc.) to remain at the forefront of new trends and platform updates to share with broader team & explain potential impact on clients
• Consider impact and long-term implications of decisions before taking action
• Track and share new industry best practices and apply to client opportunities
• Demonstrate abilities as a creative thinker and encourage others to think outside the box
• Demonstrate strategic thinking and research capabilities to support the development of innovative campaigns
• Track record of developing creative digital & social strategies and programs

ENTREPRENEURSHIP:

• A passion for working with exciting international brands
• Shows strong initiative as an entrepreneurial thinker taking independent actions and calculated risks
• Superior time management and organizational abilities
• Entrepreneurial spirit and excitement to become an integral part of a new kind of agency
• Ability to be flexible in a changing work environment and work well under pressure
• Share learnings and feedback with colleagues
• Become a source for trends, best practices & expertise
• Keep up to date with updates on paid media and share knowledge with team members
• Develop and host Lunch & Learns for broader team to update on emerging social and influencer trends and processes
• Proactively attend industry events and speaking opportunities to further develop core skill set

Our ideal candidate will also possess the following:

• 7+ years of experience in a digital agency
• Digital and Social media buying expertise
• Proven digital and social media expertise an absolute must coupled with holistic media planning capabilities
• Skilled at analyzing data, deriving insights and building creative output to meet client objectives
• Genuine curiosity about how technology and innovation affects how we communicate and evolves social behaviors
• Bachelor’s & post-graduate degree in Digital Marketing or a related field
• Passionately committed to collaboration
• Excellent cross-functional leadership, presentation and communication skills; dynamic team player
• Shows strong initiative as an entrepreneurial thinker taking independent actions and calculated risks
• Superior time management and organizational abilities
• Strong proficiency in social platforms and effective measurement frameworks for social programs
• Experience leading complex and highly strategic digital engagements
• Strong interpersonal abilities to effectively manage all internal and external relationships, vendors and agency partners
• Ability to be flexible in a changing work environment and work well under pressure