Brand Strategist

Apply to the Brand Strategist role at Rise at Seven | Search-First Content Marketing Agency in Manchester, England.

As a Brand Strategist in the Demand Campaigns team, you’ll be the strategic engine powering our boldest ideas. You’ll own the day‑to‑day strategic thinking on key accounts, where research, data, and creativity collide to shape campaigns that don’t just land, but demand attention.

Reporting into the Head of Brand, you’ll translate brand challenges into sharp positioning, clear audience insights, and actionable campaign plans. You’ll partner closely with strategy, social, PR, and influencer teams, ensuring every idea is rooted in strategy and built to deliver measurable impact.

You’ll act as the trusted strategic partner for clients, bringing clarity, structure, and fresh thinking to their toughest challenges. Internally, you’ll set the pace for strategic excellence, collaborating with juniors, specialists, and creatives to ensure our work drives performance while pushing cultural and creative boundaries.

This hybrid brand strategy and creative content marketing role invites you to shape strategy through positioning and audience insight while turning it into campaigns and content that bring ideas to life.

• Lead day‑to‑day strategic direction across demand campaign accounts, ensuring work ladders up to client business objectives and brand positioning.
• Develop and deliver brand positioning frameworks, audience insights, and campaign strategies that drive measurable performance and cultural relevance.
• Act as the bridge between research, data, and creativity, ensuring insights are translated into clear, actionable briefs for creative and social teams.
• Maintain client satisfaction scores of 8+, acting as a trusted partner and strategic advisor.
• Deliver at least one significant strategic pivot or campaign evolution per quarter, based on insights and performance data.
• Collaborate across departments (social, creative, PR, influencer, SEO) to build fully integrated campaign strategies.

• Lead daily/weekly strategy touchpoints across demand campaigns.
• Translate business challenges into sharp, actionable campaign strategies.
• Ensure creative briefs are insight‑led, audience‑focused, and culturally relevant.

• Act as the strategic voice in client meetings and presentations.
• Build strong day‑to‑day relationships with client stakeholders.
• Manage approvals, feedback, and reporting for strategy‑led deliverables.

• Conduct brand, competitor, and audience analysis to shape campaign thinking.
• Translate research and data into insights and frameworks that fuel creativity.
• Develop campaign narratives, positioning statements, and customer journeys.
• Partner with creative, social, and influencer teams to ensure ideas are on‑strategy.
• Provide strategic guidance throughout campaign development and execution.
• Review concepts and outputs to ensure alignment with brand positioning.

• Track campaign performance against brand and demand KPIs.
• Analyse results and surface insights to refine future strategy.
• Identify upsell opportunities and work with commercial leads to drive growth.

You’re a strategic thinker with a creative edge who can turn audience insights and cultural trends into campaign strategies that make brands impossible to ignore. You’re comfortable owning the strategic vision day‑to‑day, but equally confident rolling up your sleeves to dig into research, data, or positioning decks.

You’re naturally collaborative, able to bring structure and clarity to complex challenges while working fluidly with creatives, social teams, and clients. You have a sharp understanding of brand positioning, audience behaviour, and campaign planning, and you know how to connect all three to drive results.

• 4‑6+ years’ experience in brand strategy, comms planning, or integrated marketing strategy (agency experience preferred).
• Strong experience in brand positioning, insight development, and campaign planning.
• Proven ability to bridge data and creativity—turning numbers into narratives that unlock big ideas.
• Confident client communicator…