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Senior Strategist - Commerce

Chicago, Illinois, United States

ABOUT US – MOMENTUM WORLDWIDE 
Momentum is an agency of doers. We make the industry’s most disruptive, entertaining, shareable, unforgettable experiences for our clients and their fans. We do it by bringing people closer to what they love, in original and unexpected ways. Whether it’s a physical activation, a virtual experience, or a piece of unique branded content, it’s all part of what we call the Total Brand Experience — ideas that solve business challenges, through best-in-class Consulting, Strategy, Analytics, Experience Design, and Production. 

We want you to help brands do amazing, unprecedented, wild things, creating experiences that people never forget.

WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT FROM MOMENTUM

At Momentum, we expect our employees to embody our values!
Our Core Values of Be One, Do Great Work, Have Fun, Give Back and Grow empower an environment where we challenge ourselves professionally and encourage each other personally.

At Momentum, we make our differences matter!
Who we are matters.  We choose to hire diverse voices from all walks of life.  We choose to make our culture one where everyone can be their authentic self and speak in their voice. We choose to give each other permission to get things wrong, so we can learn to make them right.  We choose to celebrate the bravery of our peers and we choose to be collectively responsible.

At Momentum, we make our actions matter!
Making it matter means always choosing the sustainable option. It means designing waste out from the start.  It means working with the right materials. Sourcing locally, innovating off-the-shelf solutions and reusing and repurposing. It means powering smarter. Traveling less. And only working with vendors who do the same. Make it matter means becoming the first experiential agency in the world to receive 2 ISO certifications.

At Momentum, we make our people matter!
We choose to make your workplace part of your wellbeing. We choose a hybrid work model. We choose no meeting Fridays. We choose to let ourselves take as much Time Well Taken (vacation) as we need. We choose education programs that help our people develop professionally and personally. We choose tuition reimbursement. We choose to match your 401K. We choose to make your financial wellbeing our priority. We choose to make our people’s lives matter.

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR

As a Senior Strategist on the Commerce team:

• You’ll support and collaborate on strategy development to bring to life the most disruptive ways a brand can show up in the right place, at the right time, with the right message.
• You’ll structure problems with innovative frameworks, synthesize insights across multiple data sources, and assert a strategic point-of-view to guide the marketing priorities of our clients’ business while extending it into each project.
• You’ll partner with strategists, creatives, business leads, research, other commerce experts and other disciplines within Momentum’s network to ensure strategy is properly diffused through the work while delivering on our clients’ objectives.
• You’ll help uncover inspiration and innovation from the fast-evolving commerce and brand experience landscape to help evolve the agency’s POV on consumer/shopper behavior and experiences.
• You’ll partner with senior strategy and business leads to take on a consultative role with our clients, working with them to understand their business, identify opportunities, and build proactive thought leadership and solutions.
• You’ll actively present key findings, insights, and overall strategic thought to internal teams and external stakeholders.
• You’ll love connecting dots and problem-solving for consumer-facing brands in the retail environment.
• You consider yourself an overachiever, someone who takes pride in their work and delivering the highest quality output regardless of the task.

HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL DO (RESPONSIBILITIES)

STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT

• Act as brand champion, collaborating on strategy development for assigned account(s) with obsessive eye toward delivering on your client’s business goals and objectives.
• Digest and synthesize cultural, brand, shopper, and business data points and trends into compelling, actionable insights that drive effective, human-first marketing initiatives. Inform and partner with research team on qualitative & quantitative studies as needed.
• Leverage existing frameworks and methodologies to structure strategic issues and drive decision-making – opportunity to build new frameworks.
• Identify and solve brand and retail business issues through marketing strategies and tactical plans that drive powerful commerce activations.
• Work as consultative partner clients to determine and identify objectives, KPI’s, and strategic imperatives, and ensure these goals are delivered.
• Execute omni-channel strategies and tactics for agency across our process, products, people and clients.

COMMERCE EXPERTISE

• Support the strategy practice in proactively building knowledge and understanding across the modern commerce landscape (e.g., the retail environment, digital landscape, and where they both come together etc.) and use this knowledge to consistently elevate our work, capability, and client credibility.

CREATIVE INSPIRATION & EXCELLENCE

• Provide internal team with understanding of the cultural landscape, consumer behavior, competitive activity, and emerging technologies as well as larger global trends.
• Support and lead the crafting of high quality, compelling, and inspirational creative briefings to jumpstart creative ideas and activation ideation.
• Partner with strategy, creative and business leads to review creative work & direct idea development to remain on-brief and delivering on client objectives, constraints, and market realities.
• Thoughtfully communicate strategic POVs with clients; deliver well-devised, clear, concise, and compelling client presentations that earn audience confidence (across multiple stakeholder audiences).

GROWTH

• Act as a thoughtful, consultative partner to our clients, building strong relationships and working to identify challenges and structure solutions that Momentum (or broader network partners) can solve.
• Participate in the identification, prioritization and framing of client strategic opportunities, including new business proposals.
• Supporting Momentum’s Values.
• All other duties as assigned.

 
HERE’S WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR (QUALIFICATIONS & REQUIREMENTS)

• Must have 3+ years’ relevant experience within agency, consulting, retail media, retail, or large CPG company role. 
• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Demonstrated expertise in shopper, retail, and/or commercial strategy & planning, with experience across both traditional and digital- or ecommerce-led execution.
• Strong business acumen and successful leadership of project-based work, with experience with client service or strategic consulting.
• Strong presentation development, design, and creative writing capabilities.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and clients at once, attacking with agility and managing time & resources efficiently to deliver on the needs of each.
• Hands-on qualitative and quantitative research experience.
• Able to lead projects both independently and partner with a team of highly driven individuals.
• A hunger for a growing career in this field.
• A strong passion and dedication for something creative or personally inspiring that isn’t your job—this is just work, after all.

MOMENTUM BENEFITS

• Time Well Taken (our flexible benefits plan that allows you take the time you need)
• Hybrid Work model – ability to work from home or in office
• Holidays and Winter Break (agency closes between Christmas and New Years holidays)
• No meeting Fridays
• Curated DE&I programs and initiatives
• Medical, Dental and Vision plans
• Short- and Long-term disability
• 401(K) with company match
• EAP – Employee Assistance Plan
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Work from Home stipend
• Referral bonuses
• Training and development opportunities
• Flexible Spending Account
• Health Saving Accounts

At Momentum Worldwide, we value diversity and the uniqueness of all people. We thrive in an inclusive environment, and we recruit, hire and promote without regard to race, gender, age, color, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, ethnic or national origin, citizenship, religion, sexual preference, military or veteran status, marital status, family status, physical or mental disability – or any other legally protected categories as set forth in the applicable state, federal or local laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment including training, compensation, benefits and all other privileges of employment.

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