Are you our next Senior Strategist?

Have you dreamt of working with a global financial services group to figure out how to drive true financial inclusion? Perhaps you’ve got the ideal skillset to help develop the sustainability strategy for an apparel icon. Or you’re the best person to turn to, to demystify the regulations, and craft a compelling report that’ll actually drive change.

We’re looking for a Senior Strategist to join our market-leading sustainability offer. Using our magic blend of technical expertise, strategic thinking, and creative storytelling, you’ll be responsible for leading our wide-ranging strategy, reporting, and communications work with clients as varied as Microsoft and Danone. Ultimately, you’ll play a vital role in achieving RY’s vision… To create a world that believes in business.

With such a fast-growing offer and limitless opportunities to work with some of the world’s most interesting companies, we’re looking to expand our team at a senior level. Joining a team of ambitious, bright, and energetic strategists, you’ll be responsible for leading sustainability strategy, reporting, and wider communications work for some of our biggest and most complex clients, collaborating with designers, project managers, and strategists across the agency. We don’t just create belief through our client work – it’s just as important within our own agency too.

Sustainability has been a core aspect of our work at RY for over 20 years, and it’s continuing to grow, driven by an incredible team of ambitious strategists, designers, and project managers. Working in the sweet spot between technical sustainability and creative communications, we help some of the world’s biggest, most complex, and inspiring organisations define their strategy and then tell their story with credibility and flair.

Remit and responsibilities

• Lead on insightful sustainability reporting programmes. You’ll act as a lead strategist on client accounts to deliver insightful, rigorous, and engaging sustainability reporting across a range of channels. Balancing technical knowledge with creative flair and compelling storytelling, your work will span the entire reporting lifecycle, from setting the direction inspired by the latest sustainability developments and themes, to defining the content strategy, advising on appropriate standards and frameworks, interviewing stakeholders, and partnering with copywriters and creatives to bring it all to life.
• Support clients’ alignment with key frameworks. You’ll work with analysts and strategists to help clients prepare for and align with key reporting and sustainability frameworks, standards, and regulations (such as ESRS, ISSB, UK SRS GRI, TCFD, and PAI) through gap analysis, benchmarking, value chain mapping, and identification of relevant disclosure requirements.
• Work on impactful sustainability strategy work. You’ll deliver progressive sustainability strategies for our clients – from in-depth double or context-based materiality assessments to ambitious and communicative strategic frameworks and targets.
• Develop topic-specific communications and campaigns. Whether communicating an organisation’s climate transition plan, or creating a communications plan around specific human rights issues, you’ll lead the development and execution of topic-specific communications and campaigns for clients across a range of sectors.
• Pitch to win. You’ll lead proposals, pitches, and new business meetings, working with teams of project managers, creatives, and business development partners to win work with new clients and grow existing accounts.
• Raise our profile. Naturally curious and entrepreneurial, you’ll proactively come up with inspiring ideas and unique points of view, and develop content for thought leadership and marketing material. You’ll draw upon your extensive network, building relationships and speaking at events to champion our thinking.
• Build sustainability knowledge internally. You’ll help upskill the broader RY team around sustainability topics, running Sustainability Sessions and training for colleagues in other functions, e.g., employee experience, brand, digital, film.