Handle Recruitment
Head of Creative and Strategy
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Head of Creative and Strategy
About the Role
An excellent opportunity has arisen for an experienced Head of Creative & Strategy to join an established content and creative agency at an exciting stage of its growth.
This is a senior leadership position for an agency professional who combines strong strategic thinking with creative leadership. The role will be responsible for developing effective content and campaign strategies, leading creative ideation, supporting new business activity, and managing a small team of creatives and strategists.
The agency delivers content, creative campaigns, film, photography, social media, and digital communications work for a diverse range of clients across both B2B and B2C sectors.
Working closely with the leadership team, you will help shape strategic direction across client projects and new business opportunities, ensuring insight-led thinking informs creative development from brief through to execution.
You will lead the development of audience, channel, campaign, and content strategies while supporting the creation of compelling creative concepts that drive engagement and deliver measurable outcomes.
The successful candidate will be a confident presenter, experienced in leading client discussions, facilitating workshops, and delivering persuasive pitch presentations.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead strategic development across new business pitches and client projects.
- Develop audience, content, channel, and campaign strategies.
- Conduct discovery sessions, workshops, and research activities to inform strategic recommendations.
- Translate client objectives into clear strategic frameworks and creative briefs.
- Utilise AI-enabled research and planning tools to support insight generation and strategic development.
- Work closely with creative and production teams to ensure strategic objectives are reflected throughout project delivery.
- Lead creative ideation across pitches and client work.
- Support the development of integrated content and campaign concepts.
- Create and present high-quality proposals and presentations.
- Provide creative direction throughout project delivery.
- Facilitate internal creative workshops and idea-generation sessions.
- Stay informed on industry developments, audience behaviours, platforms, and content trends.
- Collaborate with producers, designers, filmmakers, editors, animators, and content specialists to deliver high-quality work.
- Review creative outputs to ensure consistency and quality.
- Manage and develop a small team of creatives and strategists.
- Contribute to wider business planning and growth initiatives.
- Identify opportunities to develop and expand client relationships.
- Support new business activity through strategic and creative leadership.
- Maintain awareness of project scope, delivery requirements, and commercial considerations.
- Foster a collaborative and high-performing team environment.
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- 8-10+ years' experience within a creative, content, marketing, communications, or integrated agency environment.
- Strong experience developing creative campaigns and content strategies.
- Proven ability to develop audience, channel, content, or communications strategies.
- Experience working across digital, social, video, photography, and content-led campaigns.
- Strong presentation and stakeholder management skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience leading and developing creative teams.
- Sound understanding of production and post-production processes.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced agency environment.
- Commercially aware, collaborative, and solutions-focused.
This is an excellent opportunity for a senior creative and strategic leader seeking a role with significant influence, autonomy, and scope to contribute to the continued growth of an established content and creative agency.
This is a hybrid role and will be based in the central London office 3-4 days a week. We cannot consider remote applications for this role unfortunately.
Handle actively welcomes applicants from under-represented backgrounds - we pride ourselves on attracting the best talent for every opportunity through a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.
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