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We’re bold, creative, pushing boundaries, sparking innovation and creating the extraordinary on the daily. Our entrepreneurial spirit and passion drives us to find new paths for some of the most recognized brands in the world. We act locally for global impact. We take risks. We empower. We go beyond.
To those who won’t settle for the expected—you’ve found your crew.
The Senior Strategist proactively looks beyond the brief to find unique ways to strategically and creatively support clients. They are capable of leading projects from start to finish with minimal oversight and maximum effectiveness. They help elevate the creative product at every step by providing clear, compelling, strategic guidance and reframing problems in ways that unlock new and unexpected creative solutions.
Transparency matters to us. For this role, you can expect a salary between $70,000-100,000 annually, depending on experience. This is for an existing vacancy.
Key Responsibilities:
- Creative Contribution: Elevate the Cossette creative product by providing clear, compelling strategic guidance. Reframe challenges that in ways that unlock new and unexpected creative solutions. Collaborate with senior leaders to ensure the consistent delivery of excellence in all agency output for the clients you’re assigned to. Actively seek to build upon existing creative in reviews, while ensuring strategic soundness of the work throughout the project.
- Strategic Planning: Synthesize complex information into a winning strategy that tells a compelling story. Ability to devise a strategic leap: taking the stated need, or “job to be done” and transforming it into a powerful strategy that is a direct catalyst for brilliant creative thinking. Actively seek to build upon existing creative in reviews, while ensuring strategic soundness of the work throughout the project.
- Research & Analysis: Design and manage an original method for primary research. Constantly consider ways of sharing consumer, cultural and industry insights that are directly relevant to your client accounts. Lead planning and facilitation of workshops. And look past the obvious to uncover the real challenge the creative needs to solve, articulating it with clarity, action and impact.
- Innovation: Lead the charge in integrating AI into the agency’s strategic process, exploring new tools and methodologies that streamline workflows and uncover deeper, more predictive insights.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Have a solid understanding of agency and creative processes and know how strategy fits into it. Work to support the things you know are important to your colleagues' fulfillment of their roles in the agency.
- Client Collaboration: Proactively communicate with clients, prospects and candidates to generate a winning outcome in all efforts. Unearthing valuable new opportunities for your clients and the agency.
Skills & Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in strategic roles within an agency or related environment, with proven and recognized strategic expertise.
- Some experience in integrating AI and other emerging technologies to improve the agency’s strategic output.
- Experience in helping build insights, brand strategy, comms planning, and experience design capabilities in a fast paced agency environment.
- Deep understanding of, and ability to help guide, the creative development process in an agency environment.
- Outstanding communication and presentation skills, ability to maintain strong relationships with colleagues across strategy, business leadership and creative communities.
- Driven by curiosity and actively engaged in sharing new trends and news that are relevant to client opportunities.
What’s in it for you
We Value The ‘whole You’
- An innovative and entrepreneurial work environment that promotes ingenuity and individuality - with the best of colleagues, and the best of clients
- Hybrid work models and flexible hours, plus a work from anywhere policy for short-term stays in other regions
- Generous Vacation starting at 3 weeks + 1 extra week over the holidays
- Agency summer days (exact policy differs per campus and agency)
- Modern, open co-working spaces with coffee & snack bars, located in great city neighborhoods, close to shops and restaurants and easy access to public transport
- Dogs allowed, dedicated Play Room to support families and Private wellness room (in select offices)
- Team social events - holiday parties, seasonal gatherings, weekly happy hours, inspiring speakers and more!
We are obsessed with learning and being better humans
- In-house learning & development sessions and annual career and growth conversations’
- Access to internal network of opportunities across all agencies
- Internal EDI group(s), programs & initiatives across Plus Company and opportunities to be involved in employee resource group(s)
Check out our EDI report here to learn more about our work and commitment towards equity.
We invest in your health and wellness:
- Flexible benefits to support your individual lifestyle and life stage – with access to a personal wellness spending account you can use for a wide range of wellness expenses, including gym membership fees, pet care, education expenses, and much more!
- Comprehensive mental health support including access to a virtual mental health therapy clinic providing you with personalized therapist guided iCBT programs and live therapy, access to health clinicians 24/7, and a holistic array of other health and wellness resources to support you and your family.
- Dedicated play rooms for days you need to bring the kids and health and wellness rooms when you need a place to get grounded.
- A responsible sick & personal absence days policy designed so you don't have to worry the moment a personal obligation or emergency arises.
- Maternity leave top up program.
Expiry Date Notice: This job description expires on August 7th 2026
We’re humbled by the number of talented people who apply to work with us every day. And, we thank each and every one of you. Truly. We’ll reach out directly to those we’d like to meet for an interview.
To ensure a fair and consistent evaluation for all candidates, our interviewers are supported by an AI tool that securely takes notes during the conversation
Creating meaningful work means embracing different perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on age, colour, ability, national origin, race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation. Not only are these provisions protected by provincial and federal law, embracing difference is what makes Cossette what it is—and we wouldn’t have it any other way. We pride ourselves on our inclusive and accessible workplace. If you need any accommodations during the interview process to make it work for you, let us know.
By joining Cossette , you become part of Plus Company, a unique partnership of forward-thinking creative agencies. As a network, we unabashedly believe anything is possible. Why? Because possibility is what powers the big dreams and limitless drive of an entrepreneur. And entrepreneurial agencies are what we’re made of. A whole network of them.
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