Hallam

Head of Strategy

Hallam

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Nottingham • United Kingdom

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Salary

💰 £55,000 - £65,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Own the strategy process end-to-end, from client brief through research, insight, and recommendation. You define the problem, shape the approach, and set the direction. Delivery teams execute from there.
  • Lead strategic workstreams across a portfolio of B2B clients, primarily in complex or considered purchase categories
  • Challenge briefs and channel assumptions: push back where needed and bring a clear point of view to every engagement
  • Develop Hallam's strategy methodology: frameworks, products, and repeatable processes that raise the bar across accounts
  • Lead or contribute to new business pitches alongside the Growth Director and BD team
  • Build measurement frameworks that connect marketing activity to commercial outcomes, not just channel metrics
  • Collaborate with Performance, SEO, Paid Media, and Creative disciplines to ensure strategic intent translates into joined-up execution
  • Represent Hallam's strategic thinking externally through content, events, and thought leadership.
  • Work closely with Client Services to ensure strategy is embedded in how client relationships are managed and grown
  • Partner with the Performance Director to align strategic recommendations with delivery capability and channel expertise
  • Engage with the New Business team at pitch stage to ensure strategy is a visible differentiator in new business conversations
  • Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders, bringing challenge and clarity in equal measure

Requirements

  • Genuine B2B experience as a foundation.
  • Deep understanding of classical marketing principles: segmentation, positioning, brand strategy, and the ability to apply them to real commercial problems
  • Experience working across both brand and demand, with the judgment to know when each applies
  • Ability to synthesise data and qualitative research into a clear, defensible strategic point of view
  • Comfort with ambiguity and the confidence to make a call when the brief is unclear or incomplete
  • Strong communication skills: you can write a strategy deck that a CEO finds compelling and a channel lead finds actionable
  • A consulting mindset: you ask good questions, challenge assumptions respectfully, and earn trust through quality of thinking
  • Experience agency-side, with a working understanding of how agencies deliver and how to get things done across disciplines
  • Track record of contributing to or leading new business pitches.
Benefits
  • Unlimited remote and flexible working policy*
  • 33 days holiday (25 plus the extra 8 bank holidays to take whenever you want)
  • Option of early finish Fridays
  • Your birthday day off, whenever you choose to celebrate!
  • Bi-annual, seasonal recharge days
  • Other annual leave perks including, quarterly long weekends, additional holidays after longevity of service and the option to buy further holiday days
  • Sabbatical opportunities after 5 years service
  • Enhanced parental and reproductive health policies, supporting every stage of family planning including access to menstrual and menopause leave
  • Enhanced policies to support with leave for medical reasons, caring for dependents, compassionate or bereavement reasons
  • Training, learning and development opportunities, both individual and company-wide
  • A revered employee engagement programme including frequent surveys and retros. Your opportunity to have your voice heard and genuinely make a difference to your place of work
  • 2 days per month of ‘Thrive Time’. This is your personal development time you can spend on anything you want. Want to focus on innovation? Volunteer for a charity? Enrol for a qualification? We’ll give you the time to do this
  • Regular company and team socials, events and celebrations
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
B2B marketingsegmentationpositioningbrand strategydata synthesisqualitative researchstrategy developmentmeasurement frameworksmarketing activity analysisconsulting mindset
Soft Skills
strong communicationrelationship buildingstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingcollaborationchallenge assumptionsconfidence in ambiguitytrust buildingclarity in communicationleadership