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# Senior Strategist at OLIVER Agency

- **Company:** OLIVER Agency
- **Location:** Barcelona, Spain
- **Posted:** 2026-11-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-12
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/oliver/jobs/8358856

## Job description

Established in 2004, OLIVER is the world’s first and only specialist in designing, building, and running bespoke in-house agencies and marketing ecosystems for brands. We partner with over 300 clients in 40+ countries and counting. Our unique model drives creativity and efficiency, allowing us to deliver tailored solutions that resonate deeply with audiences.

As a part of The Brandtech Group, we're at the forefront of leveraging cutting-edge AI technology to revolutionise how we create and deliver work. Our AI solutions enhance efficiency, spark creativity, and drive insightful decision-making, empowering our teams to produce innovative and impactful results.

## SENIOR STRATEGIST

LOCATION: Barcelona, Spain

REPORTING TO: Strategy Director

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE ROLE AND TEAM

Working in direct partnership with a leading European pet care client (part of a major international food group), the Senior Planner / Strategist will play a pivotal role in shaping the strategic direction for four leading pet care brands.

Embedded within our dedicated on-site agency hub in Barcelona, you will collaborate closely with the client's Global Brand Teams on high-impact global briefs. Your focus will be upstream and conceptual: uncovering transformative consumer and cultural insights, authoring inspirational creative briefs, defining brand and communication strategies, and building comprehensive global master toolkits.

This is an exceptional opportunity for an ambitious, culturally attuned, and insight-driven strategist to establish foundational strategic frameworks, elevate creative ambition, and influence the global trajectory of major pet care brands.

## WHAT IS REQUIRED

Global Brand & Communication Strategy

- Partner directly with the client's Global Marketing Leads and Brand Managers to define overarching brand, communication, and campaign strategies across cat and dog portfolios.
- Architect robust Global Master Toolkits, guidelines, and campaign architectures designed for global consistency and seamless future adaptation across regional markets.
- Interrogate client challenges to uncover the real commercial and cultural problems strategy needs to solve, converting complex business goals into clear, actionable creative propositions.

Audience Insight & Cultural Intelligence

- Dig deep into pet owner (pet parent) behaviours, motivations, and cultural trends using qualitative discovery, social listening tools, and audience data platforms (e.g., GWI, category research).
- Translate data and category trends into rich, inspiring human insights that ignite breakthrough creative ideas.
- Help clients stay at the forefront of modern marketing, championing audience-first and culturally resonant thinking across all touchpoints.

Creative Partnership & Briefing

- Work as a trusted partner to the Creative Director, Art Directors, and Copywriters, guiding conceptual thinking from discovery through to final presentation.
- Craft sharp, inspirational creative briefs and lead energising briefing sessions that give creatives a clear springboard for conceptual work.
- Provide constructive strategic feedback during the creative review process, ensuring ideas are both strategically sound and creatively daring.

Client Partnership & Ways of Working

- Establish strong, consultative relationships with client brand teams, becoming a trusted advisor on brand positioning, consumer journeys, and creative effectiveness.
- Collaborate with the Strategy Director and cross-functional leads to establish best-practice strategic frameworks, briefing templates, and workshop methodologies for the account.

## WHAT GOOD LOOKS LIKE

- Experience: 6-10+ years of brand and communications planning experience within top-tier creative agencies, brand consultancies, or dedicated/in-house client setups.
- Sector background: Proven experience working on FMCG, CPG, Pet Care, or consumer lifestyle brands. Experience navigating multi-brand portfolios is a significant plus.
- Global & conceptual scope: A demonstrated track record delivering global briefs, brand platforms, and master campaign toolkits (brand and communication planning, not solely channel execution).
- Strategic craft: A balanced blend of analytical rigour and creative intuition, capable of mining data for genuine insights and distilling complexity into punchy narratives.
- Storytelling & presentation: Outstanding written, narrative, and verbal presentation skills, with comfort facilitating workshops and pitching strategic platforms to senior global stakeholders.
- Collaborative spirit: High EQ, curious, and proactive, with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative embedded agency environment.
- Languages: Professional working fluency in English is essential, as it is the working language for global briefs. Proficiency in Spanish is a strong advantage.

Req ID: 18671

#LI-JP1 #LI-Midsenior #Onsite Our values shape everything we do:

Be Ambitious to succeed

Be Imaginative to push the boundaries of what’s possible

Be Inspirational to do groundbreaking work

Be always learning and listening to understand

Be Results-focused  to exceed expectations

Be actively pro-inclusive and anti-racist across our community, clients and creations

Our recruitment process does not employ artificial intelligence for selection. We use AI to support efficiency and consistency, not to replace human judgement. Candidate evaluation and selection are conducted without AI-supported screening or decision-making. We are committed to a fair, thoughtful, and equitable experience for every candidate.

OLIVER, a part of the Brandtech Group, is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodivergence, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.

OLIVER has set ambitious environmental goals around sustainability, with science-based emissions reduction targets. Collectively, we work towards our mission, embedding sustainability into every department and through every stage of the project lifecycle.

## About OLIVER Agency

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: OLIVER designs, builds, and runs bespoke in-house agencies and marketing ecosystems for major brands, driving marketing change from the inside out.
- **Entity Type**: Private (part of The Brandtech Group)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2004
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Marketing services, creative agency, in-house agency design and operations
- Target customers: Large enterprise brands across sectors (B2B, B2C, consumer goods, retail, tech, etc.)
- Mission: To build better marketing from the inside out, helping brands achieve average savings of 30% on marketing spend through more efficient and effective creative work.

## Products & Services
- **Bespoke In-House Agencies**: OLIVER assembles dedicated, embedded teams that operate as an extension of the client’s own marketing department, covering strategy, creative, data, content, and engineering disciplines.
- **OLIVER Marketing Gateway**: Proprietary technology platform that accelerates marketing change and streamlines workflows within client ecosystems.
- **GenAI & Creative Optimization**: Services leveraging AI tools (e.g., GenAI Creative Optimization/Performance Analysts) to enhance creative efficiency and decision-making.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Revenue**: Not publicly disclosed (private company); annual revenue estimated in the hundreds of millions based on 5,000+ people and 300+ clients.
- **Key Metrics**: Over 300 clients, 1,500+ brands, 50+ markets, 5,000+ people globally.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: The Brandtech Group (formerly You & Mr. Jones) – parent company; partnerships with clients like Unilever, Diageo, Coca-Cola, and many others.
- **Growth Signals**: Named #1 on Adweek’s Fastest Growing List 2020; Campaign’s Digital Innovation Network of the Year (2020); UK’s Best Companies to Work For 2021; 275 active job postings (LinkedIn, 2026) with yearly job posting growth of +99.3%.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Exclusive focus on in-housing**: OLIVER is the only global agency dedicated entirely to building and running bespoke in-house agencies, enabling deeper brand integration and cost savings.
- **Embedded model**: Teams work inside client organizations, gaining intimate knowledge of the brand and business challenges, leading to faster decision-making and more relevant creative.
- **Scale + agility**: Access to a global network of 5,000+ talent while delivering tailored, local teams – combining the resources of a large agency with the nimbleness of an in-house operation.
- **AI & technology edge**: Proprietary Marketing Gateway and strong GenAI capabilities keep the agency at the forefront of marketing innovation.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expanding GenAI capabilities**: Actively hiring roles like “GenAI Creative Optimization/Performance Analyst” and “Senior Project Manager – AI & Creative Operations” to embed AI into every client engagement.
- **Geographic expansion**: Continued growth in existing hubs (London, Toronto, Singapore, Amsterdam, Paris, etc.) and emerging markets (South Africa, Middle East, India).
- **Deepening client partnerships**: Moving beyond traditional creative work into data, technology, and long-term strategic partnerships.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Named a UK Best Company to Work For; strong emphasis on wellbeing, flexibility, and local support (“healthcare, retirement, paid leave, and local protections”).
- **Work environment**: Hybrid/office presence depending on location; many roles require on-site presence at client offices (e.g., London, Slough, Weybridge, Durban, etc.).
- **Perks**: Continuous training on latest tools, platforms, and LLMs; benefits tailored by country (health & wellbeing, life outside work support).
- **Engineering/Creative culture**: Opportunity to work inside world’s biggest brands, surrounded by top creative and technical talent; roles span strategy, creative, data, content, and engineering.

## Sources
1. [oliver.agency](https://www.oliver.agency/opportunities/)
2. [oliver.agency](https://www.oliver.agency/?gh_src=22v7i6t71us)
3. [job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/oliver)
4. [uk.linkedin.com](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/oliver-agency)
5. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/oliver-agency/faq/workplace-perception)

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