Digital Strategist
LONDON, BIRMINGHAM, MANCHESTER OR EDINBURGH
About Emperor
Emperor is for your great ambitions. We're an employee-owned corporate communications and creative agency with more than 300 partners specialising in reporting, brand, digital, employee engagement, change and sustainability.
Founded in 1996, we are experts in communication, specialising in corporate reporting, brand, employee engagement and sustainability across a range of channels. From two men and an Apple Mac, we are now one of the UK’s leading strategic and creative communications agencies with over 300 colleagues. We have achieved this through continuously developing and evolving our proposition, delivering great work, expanding our geographic presence in key locations, making smart acquisitions, recruiting quality people and building long term client relationships.
In 2020, we became an employee-owned business. This decision not only fulfilled a long-standing ambition of the founders, but is driving growth, providing long-term clarity, and helping to attract and retain the best talent. It reinforces our desire to remain an agile and people-focused business that fosters transparency and innovation for clients.
We are one of the largest employee-owned creative agencies in the UK, unrivalled in scale with a unique national presence. We are the only corporate communications agency with a network of creative hubs in strategic locations across the UK in London (HQ), Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh, and in Dubai.
Emperor is in the 26th – and most impressive – year of its history to date. Performance has been materially ahead of expectations, despite the uncertain environment, and the quality of work has never been higher. In 2022 we achieved double digit growth, more than 20% ahead of all our expectations and revenue of over £26m.
In September 2022 we became a Certified B Corporation. B Corp is a movement committed to using business as a force for good and transforming the global economy to benefit all people, communities, and the planet.
There is no better foundation on which to build.
Our People
We want to be the agency of choice for ambitious talent. So, we’re looking for brilliant people who actively want to create great things with us.
Our culture is one where you’re free to do, learn and achieve better. We welcome every partner to experience a sense of belonging; whoever you are, wherever you’re working from, whatever your role. Our values guide how we work every day, with each other, our clients, and suppliers. And with our friendly inclusive environment, effort and empathy, we make the feeling real.
Our Pledges represent commitments from Emperor to each partner designed to promote personal and collective wellbeing, plus raise awareness of and address some of the bigger societal and environmental challenges, nurture our unique culture and make the business a healthier and more responsible place to work.
The wellbeing of our partners is a big focus at Emperor which why wThe rolee have a dedicated Wellbeing and Pledges Manager to ensure our mind and bodies are working in sync to support our great ambitions.
The role
Digital empowers our world. It is the transformational force. From how we communicate, consume and create, to driving the world’s most successful organisations. Precise, personal, and predictive digital experiences are augmented into every aspect of our lives. The demands have never been higher.
Our digital strategists empower clients to harness the value of digital to communicate better, design better services and, ultimately, do better business.
You’ll join a full-service digital team, combining deep specialist knowledge of the corporate and consumer worlds to craft innovative, creative, and measurably better experiences, for clients you will have heard of, such as BT, SSE & Reckitt.
What you’ll be doing in this role
The responsibilities that we’ll trust you with in the role include:
- Providing clients with clarity, by rigorously interrogating their needs to identify issues and opportunities.
- Identifying significant research findings and synthesizing them in actionable reports.
- Developing recommendations that deliver positive client content and channel outcomes.
- Defining what effectiveness looks like and analysing the effectiveness of our work to make future recommendations.
- Creating high quality outputs, no matter the format.
- Clearly and intelligently presenting complex ideas, systems, and strategies.
Collaborating with colleagues to deliver brilliant outcomes
What you’ll need to be successful in this role
- Experience in a digital agency environment.
- Proven ability to develop comprehensive digital communication plans, and optimise digital presences, including websites, social media profiles, and other platforms.
- Skill to monitor and measure the effectiveness of digital campaigns, analyse data, and prepare reports to inform future strategies and decisions.
- Stay up to date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to continually improve digital strategies and outcomes.
- First class communication skills (both verbal and written), successfully presenting ideas to engage your audiences.
- Regularly engaging with clients to provide updates, insights, and recommendations on digital strategies and performance.
- Demonstrate our values – Aim High, Creativity Everywhere, Infectious Enthusiasm, Always Learning and Razor Sharp
It’s a bonus if you have
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or related field.
- Experience working in corporate communications.
- Experience of hybrid working, or collaborating across remote teams.
- Experience with content management systems (particularly Umbraco) and digital experience platforms (DXPs).
- Familiarity with marketing automation platforms (e.g., Hubspot, Marketo, Pardot)
- Knowledge of HTML/CSS, website design, and UX/UI principles
Next Steps
If you are successfully shortlisted for the role, the recruitment team will be in touch via email, and the process will begin from there. We endeavour to contact you within 5 working days of your application, however, this may vary depending on the volume of applications we receive. Good Luck!
As an employer, we are committed to ensuring the representation of people from all backgrounds regardless of their gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, or any other aspect which makes them unique. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to apply and would encourage you to let us know if there are steps we can take to ensure that your recruitment process enables you to present yourself in a way that makes you comfortable.