Senior Brand & Strategy Manager

We’re MATTA, and we believe sport, fitness, and well-being matter. We believe they improve people’s lives, and make the world a better place.

We’re an award-winning, independent creative agency specifically for sports, fitness, and well-being brands. We’re one of the fastest growing sports businesses in the country, and in 2020 we were ‘Agency of the Year’ three times over.

We build strategies, design brands, hatch big ideas, create advertising campaigns, produce content, and we have a design, video, and edit studio in-house. We’re based in London, but the majority of the work we do is global.

MATTA is seeking to recruit an experienced Senior Brand & Strategy Manager. The Brand & Strategy role at MATTA is non-traditional in its set up and requires candidates to employ an unusual combination of skills. The role requires both outstanding commercial leadership of accounts and client management in conjunction with a forensic brand strategist brain that is able to unpick thorny briefs to create searing creative clarity for internal teams.

As a senior member of our Brand & Strategy team, you will be passionate about developing outstanding marketing strategies for exciting brands in the world of sport. You will lead the development of commercially successful client relationships, while also supporting new business pitches for MATTA. You will have the opportunity to steward first hand your strategies coming to life on shoots and in our acclaimed marketing assets.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop commercially successful client relationships by providing leadership in all interactions with clients and agency stakeholders.
• Be 100% on top of the commercial aspect of the relationship, from budgeting, costing and assuming full P&L accountability for the success of your clients.
• Apply sound marketing judgement to ensure that all activity proposed will be effective and meet the objectives you agree with clients.
• Apply Matta’s Four Step approach to brand strategy development in orchestrating the creative response to briefs.
• Create and assimilate all the strategic inputs to a project.
• Be the pivot point in the ideation process, instinctively knowing what will and will not work, and guiding the team to the best course of action.
• Be responsible for the preparation and complete assimilation of client presentations and manage the internal team so that they are marshalled and well prepared in advance of client meetings.
• Be responsible for leading and writing award submissions for nominated campaigns that you work on.
• Keep your finger on the digital pulse, and stay involved in monitoring digital campaign metrics and analytical KPIs.
• Build trust and rapport with your direct reports, growing their skills and confidence through proactive leadership and coaching.

Requirements:

You have the ability to quickly and intuitively get under the skin of brand positioning and strategic planning, and demonstrate a flair for precise brand communication through Brand Equity creation and building complete brand / campaign planning models.

You are a natural relationship builder with the gravitas to quickly enable trust, rapport and respect.

You display a consistent capability for outstanding organisation and project planning. You accurately scope projects, targets, budgets and project planning timelines to manage client expectations with regards to campaign planning and anticipated project delivery.

A true agency professional, you are skilled at negotiating the best ‘win win’ commercial relationships and successful financial outcomes. You will be completely on top of budgets, client invoicing schedules and payment terms. You will be down to earth enough to enjoy rolling your sleeves up and lead the management of projects end to end - on time and to budget.

You will ensure project objectives are always delivered because you are fanatical about execution and its detail and because MATTA’s reputation relies on their successful delivery.

More about MATTA:

Our clients are some of the most recognised and prestigious global brands in sport and health and include ESPN, F1, UEFA, ATP Tour, England Football, Wattbike, Manchester United, England Cricket, World Athletics, Club Wembley, Movember, and World Rugby.

We’ve launched fitness equipment, kits, and nutrition brands. We’ve created new competitions, leagues, and tournaments - as well as rebranding, revitalising and repositioning existing ones. We’ve sold out multiple World Cups and European Championships, pushed women’s sports forward, driven participation, and led campaigns for equality and against discrimination and drugs. We’ve worked up close and personal with some of the most iconic sports stars and sports teams on the planet, shooting campaigns all over the world.

At MATTA you can expect a fast-paced, but relaxed atmosphere, and everyone is passionate about sport, fitness or wellbeing in some way. And we believe happy and healthy people produce the best work - which is why you’ll get a gym membership, private health insurance, regular team away days - and plenty of holiday. In addition to your annual leave you get a further three ‘MATTA Days' to spend playing sport, getting fit, and focusing on your well-being.

We believe sport, fitness and wellbeing has the power to change the world. Come and work somewhere where, whatever you do - it matters.