Pulse Advertising
Manager, Strategy
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Manager Strategy – Social Media Consulting (m/f/x)| Pulse Advertising
The Role
We’re shaping the future of social and strategy, placing deep insight, creativity, and data-driven thinking at its core.
As Manager Strategy at Pulse Advertising, you’ll lead the development of bold, insight-driven social media, influencer, and paid social strategies for a diverse portfolio of global clients. Determined by robust data, AI, and culture*—your work won’t just target audiences, it will drive measurable impact that actually moves brands forward.
Your Tasks
- Own brand, digital, and social media strategies from initial benchmarking and insight through to client presentation and execution handover.
- Serve as a **trusted strategic partner, advising clients on social media, influencer marketing, creative, and integrated communications—with pitch-perfect adaptability to market nuances, cultural context, and local consumer insights.
- Leverage social listening, audience segmentation, and trend analysis using tools like GWI, Brandwatch, Audiense, Pulsar, or B4P to deliver sharp, actionable recommendations tailored to client goals.
- Develop creator, influencer, and UGC strategies across industries, including FMCG, retail, automotive, luxury, and tech.
- Contribute to pitch and new business winning, combining strategic rigor with quick creative thinking and a confident, differentiated point of view.
- Collaborate closely with Client Services, Paid Media, and Data teams to ensure cohesive, executable strategies across regional markets.
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What We’re Looking For
✅ 3+ years in an agency strategy role, specialising in social media or digital marketing—with diverse industry experience (geoness, high-growth success? Prove it).
🔍 Deep expertise in the creator economy
- Mastery of Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and emerging platforms—plus a nuanced understanding of market-driven behaviour and cultural differences.
- Extract sharp strategic insights from consumer data, platforms, and macro trends—in fluent long-form and at peak speed.
🤖 Agile ally to AI
- Demystifies AI marketing tools and elevates their value in strategy, recommendations, and creative problem-solving.
- Moves beyond quick wins—data + insights = human-connection strategies.
🎯 Local swan/speedboat hybrid
- Creative agility: ability to ideate and pivot inside client conversations, not just "outside" the deck.
- E-from-minute sit-ups: English fluency mandatory; German, French or Italian a huge plus.
👥 Collaborative & multi-tentacled networker
- Low ego, high ideas—you want to grow with us, leveraging 1:1 coaching, team workshops, and connections across agencies, markets and corners-of-the-world we’ll impact.
- Hybrid & normal flair: thrive in a fast-moving international environment where bold thinking meets cultural humility.
Why Join Us?
🌍 Your desk is everywhere—choose to base your work in Paris, London, Milan, Hamburg, or Berlin, or our wild helicopters. 🤝 We like to see you grow—from careers-style coaching to office dogs (fur siblings are welcome!). 🎉 Play hard: team retreats, virtual celebrations, and the rewarding push-pull between work and world-building. 🏢 Too lazy for the office? 2-day hybrid remote policy lets you craft your connection. 🐕 Fido-friendly zones: all our urban HQs are built for four-legged coworking.
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Our Difference
We’re meaning-making machines. Founded in 2014, Pulse Advertising was built on the belief that advertising can have substance. We guide brands to social success—through influencer marketing, paid social advertising, and social media content that hooks hearts and wallets.
You’ll join a creative colony of direction-changers, all united by ambition, inclusivity, and the mission to make advertising less clamorous, more Pulsed.
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Apply now and let’s craft the smarter, smarter verbose, but friendlier way to communicate on social—globally and germane.
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