About Jungle Creations

We are Jungle Creations, an award winning social media agency and publisher. Since our creation in 2014, we have built a community of over 147 million followers on and beyond social. In 2019 we launched The Wild, our publisher-powered social agency, that helps brands unlock social through data and insights, so they can build communities and break into culture

Jungle Media is the home of our portfolio of award-winning social media brands. We have pioneered some of the world's biggest communities; from Twisted on food and drink, to VT on entertainment, Four Nine on female lifestyle, Craft Factory on DIY and family and Lovimals, Level Fitness and Futurology on pets, fitness and tech. With over 147 million (and counting) followers across all major social platforms, our team of creators, content producers and social strategy specialists know how to create content that gets people watching, talking and reacting. Our brands reach millions of people every single day through our video content, websites, podcasts (and even restaurants).

The Wild is a publisher-powered social and influencer agency born out of Jungle Creations. We saw an opportunity to unlock data & insight from Jungle’s 140M+ global audiences and bring a decade of our social publisher expertise to brands. With a roster of international clients including Red Bull, PepsiCo and Disney, we drive brands to unlock social, build community, and break into culture - on and beyond social.

Role Purpose

We are looking for an established and experienced strategy director to boost our growing strategy department, including working closely with junior team members to help them develop. The right candidate will have demonstrable experience in multi-channel planning but should revel in social-first; naturally planning from culture back to brand, not brand out.

The role will sit as part of the Senior Management team of The Wild.

While we believe that strategy roles are inherently creative, we are looking for a strategist who feels as comfortable traversing creative as well as getting stuck into data, is fluent in all things paid media and thrives when planning platform and channel ecosystems.

Responsibilities

Responsible for managing, supporting, and building The Wild's social strategy team across both the agency and brand partnerships business. In conjunction with managing The Wild's social strategy team, will also be asked to provide social media strategies, trends analysis, PoVs, frameworks, and analyses (both internal and external), along with structured solutions and measurable results that apply to The Wilds unique approach as a publisher powered agency. (Data & insights, Planning, Creative Editorial, Influencer Marketing, Paid Social).

Organisation and team management of strategy team within The Wild. Presented to senior-level clients as the most senior strategic agency resource for The Wild.

As our go-to leader for strategy, you’ll play a central role in pitching for new projects and the strategic development of existing projects.

Oversees multiple strategy & brand planning projects working hand in glove with the social, creative and data and insight teams.

Leads in developing brand planning in relation to social, insight creative, media and strategy for New Business.

Must have excellent communication and presentation skills

Strategic development through interpreting our own proprietary data and insights, market insights and cultural consumer trends into a brand/comms strategy that is simple yet powerful and aligned with what the clients’ brands really need.

Performs all strategy tasks as needed to support new business, identify opportunities or course-correct at-risk projects.

Strong understanding of culture and emerging trends and an ability to apply these to content thinking.

They are highly visible to the client's senior management and working team members and are responsible for presenting program thinking and planning to both audiences.

Be able to provide guidance to the strategy team to develop briefs for big platform ideas that will be translated across channels with a focus on building brand equity and driving measurable ROI.

You raise the bar of our work through simple but bold planning, social-first innovation and magnetic pitching.

Background and Experience:

Proven leadership ability in a fast-paced, high-profile organisation; with a track record of leading strategic work that has demonstrably had proven success

Experience in differentiating core creative ideas from their executional treatments, and astute in assessing when these meet the brief and how they will influence behaviour;

Proven to be capable of guiding and nurturing creative work that meets clients’ briefs

An ability to multi-task, and manage multiple initiatives at different development stages

A natural ability to think strategically about a business and individual topics and issues

A drive for results and a challenge, being action orientated and pragmatic in approach

Experience in presentation and communication to a range of stakeholders and the ability to ‘bring people along’ on a journey and meeting deadlines

Interest in using and learning AI tools to support insight writing and idea generation a bonus

Core skills and competencies:

Proven experience devising and delivering complex strategies for major consumer brands. We’re looking for a Strategy Director with a breadth of experience across social/ digital /and comms strategy.

The ability to communicate ideas that inspire, both verbally and written

A skilled collaborator with excellent relationship building skills, both internally and externally.

Exceptional communication skills including the ability to present ideas and work collaboratively with others

All employees are expected to comply with the company code of conduct, act professionally with colleagues, and treat colleagues and the workspace with respect; It is your responsibility to ensure your behaviour, attitude and appearance always positively reflect Jungle Creations and doesn't do anything that would bring the reputation of the company into disrepute or cause a loss of confidence in its work.

Measures of success and key stakeholders:

Employees are monitored with bi-annual KPIs to measure their performance; these KPIs are made up of both skills and behavioural competencies. Jungle is committed to rewarding those employees who consistently exceed their bi-annual KPIs and will ensure those employees advance within the business.

We want you to add to our culture

At Jungle Creations, we aim to ensure our workforce reflects the diverse society we live in. Our different ideas, our different perspectives and our respect for one another enables us to be innovative, creative and build a sense of belonging that actively encourages our people to add to our culture. We want everyone to feel that Jungle Creations is a place where they belong and that is the reason why we look for the cultural add, not the cultural fit.

Our mission

‘We exist to create ideas that get people to thrive online and in the real world’

Our values

This is who we are. These qualities are the things we look for in new Jungle talent, the things we celebrate and reward our people for, and the things clients discover about us and our work.

Collaborate.

Whether in a small or large capacity, every one of our departments work in collaboration with each other. Encouraging this total collaboration means our people can team up with ease, and create the perfect environment for idea sharing, creative thinking, and working closely with clients and partners alike.

Innovate.

In a business and world that is forever changing, we pride ourselves on how agile and adaptable we are. Striving to experiment, take risks and be bold, Jungle celebrates how quickly its people can innovate and move with the times, ensuring we are at the forefront of change and the best in industry.

Champion.

We champion our people, their ideas, and their differences. Our people respect one another and the things that make each of us unique. We aim to support all voices internally and reflect this in the work we do. We actively encourage our people to add to our culture and want everyone at Jungle to feel that they belong.