Average Strategist salary in the UK

Job title: Junior Strategist Department: Strategy Reports to: Head of Strategy Location: London We're Droga5. You know our name, you know our work, but we want to introduce you to our future and invite you to be part of it. Where legendary creativity meets world class tech. We are looking for a Junior Strategist to join our London office. It’s a big break for a curious, ambitious thinker who wants to start their chapter with us. Are you? Someone that wants to kick off their career in one of the most famous creative agencies in the world? Someone who looks at businesses, culture, and people and asks "why"? You might be a fresh graduate, a planner with a year of experience, or someone coming from a totally different background with a unique perspective and a hunger to enter the industry and grow. What matters is that you have a desire to learn, a distinct point of view, and want to help make work that makes other strategists jealous. This role is for someone who: Sparks imagination:Are you the one who finds the weird, wonderful, and unexpected nuggets of information? The one who provides the raw material that gets creative teams excited? Lives in culture:Do you understand how ideas travel online and in the real world? Can you spot a trend before it peaks and help us understand how brands can play a role in it? Finds their voice:Can you organize your thoughts and present a clear point of view? Are you ready to learn how to command a room, articulating a vision that is compelling, original, and clear? Wants to build a contemporary toolkit:Do you see a problem and immediately want to help solve it? Are you eager to learn the full variety of tools, tech and capabilities that make the modern strategist? If that sounds like you, then Droga5 London would love to meet you. Who we are Droga5, part of Accenture Song, is a creative agency with offices in London, New York, Sydney, Dublin, Tokyo and São Paulo. From integrated communications and experience innovation to business design, Droga5 exists to build the most influential brands. Droga5 has been recognized as Agency of the Year more than 25 times. Job Summary This role will put you in the engine room of our strategic output. You will support Strategy Directors and Senior Strategists on some of Droga5 London's most important client accounts and be a support player in new business pitches. You will be expected to bring fresh energy and set the standard for curiosity. Job Responsibilities Research detective:You will become the expert on the consumer, the category, and the culture surrounding our brands. You will dig deep into research. From social listening to reading industry reports and trawling through data to find the insights that can help build strategies and unlock great work. Brand guardian:On your key accounts, you will learn your client’s business inside out. You will be obsessed with understanding what makes the brand successful and how to help it win vs the competition. You will be the reliable right-hand to the senior strategy team, ensuring we always have the latest and most useful information to hand. Creative partner:You will support your strategy lead by working closely with creative teams throughout the process. You’ll help with arming them with additional insights, consumer data or whatever they need strategically to develop their ideas and executions. Effectiveness student:You will learn the importance of proving the impact of work. You will help compile case studies and reports for your key accounts and learn how to demonstrate how creativity drives business results.

Growth Strategist Who are weWe’re Accenture Song’s Venture Studio - brought in when clients need to evolve what works now, reimagine what’s next, or build something entirely new. We make it real, fast, and together. Our team is made up of Growth strategists, Product builders, and Creative designers who make growth happen, and we do it for truly game-changing businesses like L’Oréal, IKEA, British Airways, Virgin and JLR. The impact we are having is changing the way people live, shop, bank, work, and travel. We are not your typical consulting team and we are much more than your traditional design studio. We’re a team of founders, operators and creatives who’ve launched products, scaled businesses and been recognised by Fast Company and beyond. We don’t just advise - we build. Fast-moving teams that test, learn and scale what matters. Scale isn’t easy to come by, but being part of Accenture enables us to truly stand behind that word. We connect the dots across diff erent parts of this organization to be able deliver at true scale, for the biggest brands in the world.This is a one-of-a-kind place to forge your career. Where the brightest, most ambitious minds are let loose on the biggest, most impactful problems. Your roleAs a Growth Strategist, you are here to bring together strategic thinking and excellent execution to every project, from early-stage idea generation to detailed digital design, build and operation. We are looking for passionate generalists who exhibit interest and relevant experience in growth, product and or venturing. You will be responsible for the outcomes of a single workstream such as commercial or market analysis. You will have the autonomy to plan and execute across your workstream, delivering work independently, with guidance from a Senior Growth Lead. Key responsibilities Deliver excellent work across the entire venture building process. Example activities in this process might include:Carrying out primary customer research and market analysis to identify new venture opportunitiesRunning in-market tests to validate demand for new venture ideasContributing to the business, growth or product strategy thinking that guides our clients’ decision-makingDeveloping op models and governance structures for running new venturesDeveloping product roadmaps and working with technical teams to scope out features and delivery timelinesDesigning go-to-market strategies for products to win in marketDeveloping the commercial models that identify and articulate the value and commercial dynamics of our venturesContribute to the smooth operation of your venture team by running key project management initiatives (i.e. end of week meetings and team energisers)Build on the culture of the Venture Studio, by sharing your ideas and participating in company forumsThroughout, you will work hand-in-hand with our creative team to push the quality of thinking and storytelling

Role: Content Strategist– Remote in UK    Salary: £40k - £50k per annum DOE WorkingHours: Monday – Friday 37.5 hours per week 8:00am- 17:00pm    Benefits: 20 holiday days + bank holidays Remote working Flexible working Private Healthcare with Vitality. Pension Incentive bonus Elevation Recruitment - Marketing are excited to be exclusively  partnering with an international engineering company. This role is focused on a strategic, hands-on content leader who understands that search is changing - and knows how to create content that performs in both traditional search engines and AI-driven discovery tools. This role translates business objectives into content strategies that feel authentic, discoverable, and shareable—while building a consistent brand strategy that ladders up to broader campaigns and growth goals. As our Content Strategist, you'll develop and execute a modern content strategy focused on Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO) by developing messaging frameworks and strategic guidelines that unify creative across social, owned, and earned channels. This role goes beyond blog posts and landing pages - it's about structuring and packaging information so that it's visible, cited, and trusted by search engines, AI assistants, and customers alike. In collaboration with marketing team, you will also develop and update content across written communications, videos/scripts, and digital content for use on the web and live delivery. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker who is also willing to execute content development in-house, significantly reducing reliance on external agencies. A background in technical content, engineering and / or manufacturing is highly preferred. Responsibilities: Lead Content Strategy & Planning Develop and guide solution-oriented storytelling that connects products, services, and customer needs across sectors. Create content frameworks that support full-funnel marketing and drive engagement.Build and manage a strategic content roadmap that supports brand storytelling and sales enablement.Own the end-to-end content strategy - from editorial planning to production workflows - across our websites, landing pages, social channels and sales content.Build and manage a content calendar aligned with product marketing, demand gen, and SEO/AEO goals.Collaborate with internal teams to identify content gaps, prioritise topics, and map them to the customer journey. Create & Optimise for AI-First Discovery Create and guide the development of whitepapers, case studies, landing pages, video scripts, multimedia assets including video, animation, and interactive content to enhance campaigns and increase engagement, in collaboration with the Marketing team.Develop AEO-optimised content that directly answers high-intent buyer and user questions.Apply structured content techniquesExperiment with emerging AI search tools and discovery platforms to extend content reach. Measure, Analyse & Iterate Monitor and analyse performance across organic, AI, and referral channels.Translate insights into action by refining strategy and improving content formats.Stay ahead of evolving search and AEO trends. Requirements: 5-10 years of content strategy experience, ideally in the B2B industrial space or in a fast-paced marketing team.Proven success developing content strategies that drive awareness, organic engagement, and audience growth.Strong grasp of how brand, creative, and media intersect across social, web, and earned channels.Portfolio of demand-generating content and programs tied to measurable business outcomesExperience briefing and producing written and multimedia content in partnership with internal teams or external vendorsStrong analytical skills with ability to translate performance data into actionable optimisationsDemonstrated ability to apply Gen-AI tools or automation to marketing workflowsExpertise in writing and structuring content for both humans and machines.Strong editorial instincts with the ability to simplify complex topics.Familiarity with tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, etc. - and how to integrate AI into your workflow.Ability to balance quick-turn execution with long-term brand storytelling.Comfortable working cross-functionally in a large scale, global environment. Nice to Have Experience in managing freelance writers or agency partners.Background in journalism, technical writing, or UX writing.Proficient in additional languages: German, Spanish and Chinese