Senior Strategist

OLIVER

You'll be the strategic engine behind Dove's social presence, turning audience understanding, cultural signals, and platform data into briefs, frameworks, and recommendations that guide the creative team to produce stand-out work. Working across always-on content, campaign activations, creator partnerships, and reactive cultural moments, you'll ensure Dove's social output is strategically coherent and creatively ambitious.

We're looking for someone who can think at brand level and act at platform level, someone equally comfortable articulating a long-term content strategy as they are writing a sharp brief for a trending moment on TikTok. Success means social work that is rooted in real insight, aligned with Dove's brand purpose, and demonstrably effective in driving engagement, conversation, and brand affinity.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Lead social-first strategy for Dove, developing content strategies, campaign platforms, and always-on frameworks that connect brand purpose to audience behaviour on social
• Mine consumer, cultural, and category insight to identify opportunities for Dove to show up meaningfully in social conversations and cultural moments
• Translate platform data, social listening, and audience research into actionable creative briefs that give the team a clear strategic springboard
• Develop audience and community strategies that deepen Dove's connection with diverse audiences across markets and platforms
• Partner with the creative team to shape ideas from brief through to execution, providing strategic input that sharpens and elevates the work
• Collaborate with social media managers to align strategic recommendations with publishing plans, platform priorities, and performance learnings
• Inform creator and influencer strategy, identifying partnership opportunities that are authentic to Dove's brand and relevant to target audiences
• Present strategic thinking and campaign recommendations to the Dove brand team with clarity, confidence, and a strong point of view
• Analyse social performance data and campaign results to refine strategy over time, building a continuous learning loop between insight, creative, and outcomes
• Stay ahead of social platform evolution, emerging audience behaviours, cultural trends, and competitive activity in beauty and personal care
• Mentor and develop junior strategists within the studio, building strategic capability and fostering a culture of curiosity and rigour
• Shape strategic processes and tools for the studio, including briefing templates, insight frameworks, and reporting approaches suited to social-speed workflows