4 Creative Strategy jobs in the United Kingdom

Future is the name behind market-leading brands and some of the world’s most popular media titles. We connect people to their passions through the high-quality content we create and the innovative technology we pioneer. 

We're looking for a Brand Marketing & Strategy Director to play a critical role in shaping the future of our leading media brands.

What you'll be doing.

Reporting to the Senior Marketing Director, you'll set the strategy to develop compelling and insight-driven brand propositions that deliver audience growth and engagement.

You'll be part of our marketing centre of excellence and will implement brand-building best practice across Future’s brands. You'll generate a deep understanding of our audiences and work cross-functionally to generate new brand strategies and ensure successful, measurable outcomes.

Experience that will put you ahead of the curve.

• Experience leading branding and brand strategy efforts for digital media brands
• Experience with media business models such as advertising, data, paid subscriptions
• Experience working with international brands and marketing teams 
• Line management experience

What's in it for you…

• Uncapped leave, because we trust you to manage your workload and time
• When we hit our targets, enjoy a share of our profits with a bonus
• Refer a friend and get rewarded when they join Future
• Wellbeing support with access to our Colleague Assistant Programmes
• Opportunity to purchase shares in Future, with our Share Incentive Plan

… Plus more great perks based on your location

Internal job family level Editorial 3

The expected salary range for this role is up to £80,000

This is a Hybrid role from any of our UK offices (Bath, London or Cardiff), working three days from the office, two from home

Who are we…

We’re Future, the global leader in specialist media. With over 3,000 employees working across 200+ media brands, Future is a prime destination for passionate people worldwide looking to consume trusted, expert content that educates and inspires action - both online and off - through our specialist websites, magazines, events, newsletters, podcasts and social spaces.

We’ve got ambitious plans that further build on our growth momentum and unlock new opportunities – and we’re looking for driven people who want to be a part of it!

Our Future, Our Responsibility - Inclusion and Diversity at Future

We have a voice and we’re going to use it. We promote diversity and inclusion not just in our recruitment processes, but everything we do. We’re an equal opportunity employer and we will continue to ensure our recruitment process is free of bias and our workplaces are inclusive, positive, free of discrimination and respecting of all backgrounds and beliefs. Our culture is underpinned by our values and employees - current and future - are treated with respect and fairness.

Please let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments made so we can give you the best experience!

Find out more about Our Future, Our Responsibility on our website.

Requirements

Benefits

**Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?**
Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world's leading financial groups. Across the globe, we're 120,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.
With a vision to be the world's most trusted financial group, it's part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.
Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.
**NUMBER OF DIRECT REPORTS**
Between 9 - 15 indirect (dotted line) reports, direct reports TBC.
**MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE**
The Head of Strategy and Architecture, Digital Engineering Services & Solutions (DES) is responsible for articulating, developing, leading and driving the strategic direction and technical architecture of the Digital Engineering Services & Solutions department.
The role will cover Digital Engineering Services & Solutions incorporating Infrastructure and Service Management across EMEA Bank and International Securities and the countries that those entities operate in (15 plus).
The role will be accountable for leading and driving the department's strategic plans ensuring alignment and integration with MUFG's strategic goals, including Medium Term Business Plans (MTBP) across the Business and Technology.
The role will establish and design robust technical roadmaps to support a drive and transformation to a modern and digital technology architecture across the department, working closely with the various functions in the department to define a path to reach business needs. To enable this the role holder will have proven capability of designing modern, digital architecture and strategy fit for immediate and future technology advancements.
The Head of Strategy and Architecture, Digital Engineering Services and Solutions will play a pivotal role in driving transformation, identifying emerging technologies and leveraging them to gain competitive advantage. The role holder will have extensive proven experience of establishing, creating and driving delivery of strategic digital transformation in global organisations.
The role holder will have indirect leadership of a team of Strategy and Architect leads, fostering a culture of technical enterprise architectural and engineering excellence. The role holder will have proven experience of leading and influencing both directly and indirectly in global organisations.
This is a senior leadership position and an integral part of the Digital Engineering Solutions and Services Leadership team.
The role will require proven experience of influencing and communicating with C level and Board level executives.
**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**
+ Lead the design, development, operation and management of the departments strategy and architectural roadmaps ensuring alignment with business requirements and strategic goals.
+ Develop the departments short, medium and long term strategic goals and objectives, including defining the vision and mission.
+ Collaborate with business units, operational teams, application owners and enterprise architecture to shape, document and execute the Digital Engineering Services and Solutions department strategy.
+ Maintain a clear architecture vision for the Digital Engineering Services and Solutions department that represents the 3 - 5 year roadmap for the department and organisation highlighting the key milestones required to achieve this.
+ Articulate and align Senior Stakeholders on the department's strategic direction, communicating progress towards the milestones.
+ Develop appropriate strategic measures to monitor progress against the strategic objectives ensuring they are visible to relevant stakeholders. Establish clear measurable goals aligned with the strategy to analyse department progress and KPI'S.
+ Champion adoption of the department's strategic roadmaps across the business.
+ Continuously review the department's strategy to ensure its validity and appropriateness for MUFG to achieve its business goals. Identifying opportunities to develop and refine the departments strategy.
+ Work with Digital Engineering Services and Solution Pillar Leads to define roadmaps and feed into the wider department's strategy.
+ Contribute to and align with the Enterprise Architecture.
+ Represent Digitial Engineering Services and Solutions department at the Architectural Review Board with authority to approve designs on the department's behalf.
+ Lead a team of Strategy Leads and Architects to provide technical strategy and roadmaps on behalf of Digital Engineering Services and Solutions to shape the departments landscape.
+ Regularly assessing and improving the departments technology landscape, incusing identifying opportunities for innovation and optimisation
+ Interpret relevant regulatory, requirements and security, design and technical best practices and translate these to business aligned Digitial Engineering requirements.
+ Work closely with industry partners, vendors and the wider technology ecosystems to leverage external expertise and best practices.
+ Conduct market research and competitive analysis to identify emerging technologies and trends
**SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE**
Essential:
+ 10 yr. plus years in technology strategy definition and business case development. Experience in applying strategic frameworks and tools for analysing strategic problems and developing strategies.
+ Extensive experience in Senior Strategy within Technology, Infrastructure and Operations ( Service Management). (10 years plus)
+ To enable this the role holder will have proven capability of designing modern, digital architecture and strategy fit for immediate and future technology advancements.
+ The role holder will have extensive proven experience of establishing, creating and driving delivery of strategic digital transformation in global organisations.
+ Proven experience in developing and implementing long term technology strategy and roadmaps specifically around Operations (Service Management) and Infrastructure that aligns with business goals
+ Proven track record of collaborating with senior stakeholders and influencing at C-Suite level to develop and gain support for a clear and compelling Technological vision, strategy and roadmap (10 year plus).
+ Strong strategic thinking and visionary skills with the ability to co-develop and drive the department's technical vision, strategy and roadmap development aligned with the company' overall business strategy and translate actionable strategic plans.
+ Extensive experience in IT strategy and enterprise architecture frameworks and tools. (10 year plus)
+ Extensive experience of strategic management with executive leadership.
+ Proven experience of directly managing a Team of Strategy Leads and Architects leading the development of the team and driving the service forward (10 year plus)
+ Proven ability in identifying and solving complex technical problems, translating technical issues into non-technical terms and providing clear strategic direction to teams.
+ Have experience working on complex digital transformation programmes; working and present across different levels of architecture abstraction; and working with multi-disciplinary teams.
EDUCATION / QUALIFICATIONS/ TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
Functional / Technical Competencies:
Essential
+ Deep knowledge of Financial Services technologies, including Cloud, Platforms, Telecommunications & Networks, Digital Workplace, Data Management and Artificial Intelligence including GenAI.
+ Proven experience in enterprise architecture, IT Strategy and IT Transformation at scale.
+ Strong understanding of business models, operational processes and the application of technology to drive transformation.
+ Setting roadmap, KPIs
+ Expereince of working and delivering strategy within agile environment and product and platform models.
Education / Qualifications: Industry technology strategy qualification
Essential:
+ Industry technology strategy certifications like ITIL 4 Strategic Leader or the Professional Certificate in IT Strategy and Planning.
+ Certified in TOGAF, SAFe, and/or AWS/Azure/GCP and other enterprise platforms
+ Familiarity with applying key frameworks such as APQC Process Classification Framework, Zachman Framework, ITIL and Scaled Agile Framework
+ Excellent general knowledge of IT Infrastructure (hardware, software, database, networking and cloud technologies) and Technology Operations (Service Management).
**PERSONAL REQUIREMENTS**
+ Exceptional written competency and communication skills.
+ Excellent analytical, strategic planning and problem solving skills.
+ Strong leadership and people management skills, able to inspire and lead high performing teams.
+ A calm approach, with the ability to perform well in a pressurised environment.
+ Ability to drive and lead strategically
+ Results driven with a strong sense of accountability for delivery
+ Customer centric mindset
+ Creative and innovative approach and advantage
+ A proactive, motivated approach
We are open to considering flexible working requests in line with organisational requirements.
MUFG is committed to embracing diversity and building an inclusive culture where all employees are valued, respected and their opinions count. We support the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion in recruitment and employment, and oppose all forms of discrimination on the grounds of age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy and maternity, race, gender reassignment, religion or belief and marriage or civil partnership.
We make our recruitment decisions in a non-discriminatory manner in accordance with our commitment to identifying the right skills for the right role and our obligations under the law.
At MUFG, our colleagues are our greatest assets. Our Culture Principles provide a roadmap for how each of our colleagues must think and act to become more client-obsessed, inclusive and innovative. They reflect who we are, who we want to be and what we expect from one another. We are excited to see you take the next step in exploring a career with us and encourage you to spend more time reviewing them!
**Our Culture Principles**
+ Client Centric
+ People Focused
+ Listen Up. Speak Up.
+ Innovate & Simplify
+ Own & Execute

LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We're also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that's built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun - where everyone can succeed.
Join us to transform the way the world works.
At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.
Our Sales Operations organization is responsible for building the ultimate go-to-market engine to connect our solutions with customer needs at scale. As a Sales Strategy & Operations Associate, you will be partnering with senior sales executives to crack the most important strategic topics in the sales organization, driving revenue growth and improving sales productivity and customer value. The Associate is also responsible for leading, executing and scaling operational and planning processes (e.g. building sales territories, setting sales targets) in partnership with cross-functional stakeholders (e.g. Finance)?
The Associate should have strong strategic mindset and communications skills and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to drive critical business decisions. The candidate should also be able to handle highly sensitive, confidential, and non-routine information, be open minded to challenge the status quo and work on a rapidly changing organization while inspiring excellence from them and their business partners?
Responsibilities:?
+ Lead and provide recommendations on a variety of decision-making projects that will shape LinkedIn's future go-to-market model?
+ Act like an owner in driving strategic planning processes through data-driven recommendations (e.g. customer segmentation, headcount, financial and territory planning, quota setting)?
+ Track business performance and provide insights and recommendations to advise sales leadership on forecasting?
+ Lead operational processes of the sales organization, such as: quota management, territory allocation, audits, report and dashboard development?
+ Establish strong working relationships with peers in other Sales Operations teams and cross functional partners (business operations, sales leadership, compensation, finance and systems teams) to achieve objectives?
Basic Qualifications:?
+ 3+ years of experience in management consulting, finance, sales operations, business operations, or an analytical/operational role?
+ 2+?years of experience?with Excel, SQL and PowerPoint?
Preferred Qualifications:?
+ Ability to leverage numbers and insights to influence & drive sound decision making?
+ BA/BS degree?
+ Experience in communicating effectively and present to Senior Executives?
+ Ability to build strong partnerships and collaborate with stakeholders?
+ Experience in working with Tableau?and/or Presto?
+ Motivation to stand out from the crowd, disrupting the norm to help the business win?
+ Ability to effectively solve complex problems from high priority strategic initiatives?
Suggested Skills:?
+ Analytical?
+ Prioritization?
+ Communication?
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