Senior Partnership Strategist.

How you will contribute:

• Partner with sales to develop proactive and reactive strategies to engage and develop clients.
• Be able to understand and interrogate a client brief to pull forward critical information to inform the development of a proposal.
• Lead end-to-end proposal development, using insights to craft solutions that deliver impact.
• Lead Qualitative Insight Discovery for your proposals and the PSD team as needed.
• Manage Audience Insights
• Direct brainstorms, contributing strategy, and creativity to pull the best ideas forward.
• Be a creative thinker. Generate and develop creative ideas that will appeal to a client's target audience and connect to a client's brand story in a compelling way.
• Partner with analysts, content creators, event producers, digital strategists, media strategists, and social media specialists to understand and utilize the full suite of Impact capabilities
• Understand and guide the investment; matching client objectives with value while ensuring profitability by aligning costs and budgets.
• Own the proposal document: outlining the structure, writing copy, selecting images, designing timelines, etc. based on contributions from teams across the business.
• Track working proposals, evolve/revise programs to address client feedback.
• Participate in client meetings and pitches as needed.
• Join milestone meetings for programs in the execution phase to ensure strategies are fully realized and help identify opportunities for growing partnerships by being actively engaged.

The ideal skills for the role include:

• Creative ideation, exceptional writing skills, storytelling and ability to connect the dots from insights to potential outcomes
• Experience developing content recommendations and programs for clients that span paid, owned and earned platforms.
• The ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment developing multiple proposals each week
• An understanding of the content marketing landscape and areas of opportunity for the business
• Experience with thought leadership brands
• Creative, analytic, and strategic thinking
• Effectiveness as a team member and at relationship building and collaboration
• Strong knowledge of digital marketing and content formats
• Excellent proposal/presentation development skills (Google Slides or PowerPoint)
• Have a design sensibility and be able to envision how content can be presented beyond written formats
• Be intellectually curious; demonstrate interest in driving impact in the world through thought leadership

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