Strategist - Freelance

Who We Are VML, part of WPP, is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, creating connected brands to drive growth. VML is celebrated for its innovative and human first, award-winning work for blue chip client partners including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Microsoft, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy's. The agency is recognized by the Forrester Wave™ Reports, as a Leader among Marketing Creative and Content Service Providers, Commerce Services, Global Digital Experience Services, Global Marketing Services and, most recently, Marketing Measurement & Optimization. In addition, VML’s specialist health network, VML Health, is one of the world’s largest and most awarded health agencies. VML’s global network is powered by 26,000 talented people across 55+ markets, with principal offices in Kansas City, New York, Detroit, London, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, and Sydney. About WPP WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com . . Who we are looking for: VML is looking for a Senior Engagement Strategist – Freelance for a global Pharma client. This is a unique opportunity for an experienced senior engagement strategist to be part of a fast-growing team to help build a Pharma brand from the ground up. You’ll have an innate curiosity in the engagement strategic process, developing strategy and tactics that leverage category and target audience insights, while creating briefs and cultivating a portfolio of excellent work. At VML our senior engagement strategists develop and implement plans to build meaningful connections between a brand, its organization and their target audience. They will analyze customer behavior, market trends, and engagement metrics to create strategies that enhance interaction, increase loyalty, and align with business goals across omni-channel media. What you’ll do: Strategy Delivery | Under the Strategy Lead, support account leadership to translate our client’s vision into a roadmap that will achieve meaningful connections with target consumers that align with client goals. You must be able to develop insightful, perspectives on new platforms, messaging and build connections with audiences, bring related context to reporting and drive our client’s business forward through best practice enagement strategy delivery. Insight Mining | Dig in to data from a variety of sources: audience data, market data, cultural and social trends monitoring, products and services research, qualitative and quantitative methods, to support creative strategy recommendations, gain insights into target audiences and test ad concepts. Collaborate | Work with the analytics, creative and account management teams to ensure all client deliverables are flawlessly executed and on-strategy. Contribute intelligence analysis, KPIs, and program measurement to extract key observations and nuances that can inspire creative and lead to innovative, exciting solutions for our client’s business. Who you are: A builder | Innovator with a desire to bring people together. Innate ability to marshal people and create gravity around ideas. Open and collaborative | Our team is close-knit and supportive and we’re working with a lot of unknowns – you must be a champion of team environments that are comfortable and encouraging, especially when working across disciplines. An experimenter | Embrace the unknown and ready to break process. You’ll be excited by opportunities to explore new ideas rather than rely on existing paradigms, and you view technology as a tool that ca…