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via Greenhouse · 10 September 2026 ·9 days ago

Strategy Partner

wppmedia

London

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<div class="content-intro">About WPP Media
WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. With exceptional talent, trusted data and intelligence, and world-class partnerships – all united by our pioneering agentic marketing platform, WPP Open – we help clients navigate change, capture opportunity, and deliver transformational growth. 
WPP Media is WPP's AI-driven media operating unit, bringing together media, data, and partnerships to deliver creative personalisation at scale. Connected through WPP Open and powered by Open Intelligence, clients see exactly where, how, and why their media investment is working.
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Role Summary and Impact
Are you curious about human behavior, and always looking for inspiration for a collection of sources beyond the norm? Do you wish to challenge the status quo, and bring strategies to life in exceptional ways? Wavemaker UK is looking for a curious and provocative strategy partner to join our department. Wavemaker UK are experiencing exceptional growth, offering interesting brand challenges for strategists to take on, and bring our ethos of Positive Provocation to all the unrivalled work that passes through our doors at Sea Containers. 
 In this role, you will drive strategic thinking across: 
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<li>Client Work: Build relationships with senior client and partner agency stakeholders to be their confidante and drive brand growth outside of just briefs. Be quality control check for all presentations and workshops with client. </li>
<li>Pitches: Own the narrative for the entire pitch story (including written response and any chemistries), ensuring the strategy lives and breathes in all elements of the pitch, in addition to owning and developing the comms strategy for the pitch brief, building a robust understanding of the audience, working with audience science to build any bespoke research (i.e. focus groups of otherwise), and ensuring the strategy comes through in activation and any big ideas. </li>
<li>Thought leadership: Write regular thought leadership pieces that feature in top industry titles and contribute to agency thought leadership projects like Growth Trends and Positive Provocation. Speak on industry panels, network within the industry to have a finger on the pulse on the latest thinking </li>
<li>Agency: Cement Wavemaker’s Positive Provocation and further develop it as the agency evolves. Drive the strategic direction of initiatives to that make a positive impact on the work across the agency: i.e. training, inclusive planning, sustainable planning. As well as coach and mentor junior agency members who have a strategic nous. Make the work better though optimising ways we respond to briefs, the way we plan, the way we brainstorm ideas, etc. </li>
<li>Awards: Have oversight of the awards on your client patches, rewrite entries, and ensure they are the strongest they can be. </li>
<li>Team: Lead debates, inspiration sessions, and constantly share news research, tools and inspiration stimuli with the team. Be engaged and involved in team meetings and initiatives, including participating in brainstorms, and inspiration outings. Lean in and help on accounts needing resource during team absences or during client clashes. </li>
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Skills and Experience
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