{"id":1178494,"url":"https://alion.io/job/future-publishing-senior-creative-strategist","title":"Senior Creative Strategist","company":{"id":4369,"name":"Future Publishing","domain":"futureplc.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/future-publishing","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workable","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":100,"open_postings":7,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":17,"computed_at":"2026-09-25T05:45:01Z"}},"role":"Marketing","role_family":"Marketing","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":60000,"max":70000,"currency":"GBP","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":92564},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"closed","first_seen_at":"2026-09-24T12:22:04Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-24","last_verified_at":"2026-09-25T16:45:38Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":"2026-09-25T16:45:38Z","days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"not_scored","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"Who we are\nWe create trusted, expert content that helps millions of people discover more about the things they love, need and care about. From technology, gaming and entertainment to fashion, lifestyle, sport, finance and beyond, our specialist brands connect people with their passions every day.\nAcross websites, magazines, newsletters, social channels and events, we bring expert content to audiences around the world. We combine our deep specialist knowledge with innovative technology and data to create engaging experiences, build valuable communities and help people make better-informed decisions.\nBehind it all are our people - passionate experts, creators, innovators and problem-solvers who are shaping the future of media.\nThe Team You’ll Join\nFuture Creative is a commercial growth engine with creativity at its core. We combine audience intelligence, creative strategy, storytelling and content creation to turn business challenges into ideas that drive attention, relevance and growth. Working across Future’s specialist brands, we connect what audiences care about with what partners need to achieve. From human insight through to content, brand experiences, talent and emerging formats, we create work that feels native to the communities we serve and delivers clear commercial value.\nWhat you'll do\nThe Senior Creative Strategist leads the development of commercially effective, audience-led ideas across branded content, partnerships, campaigns and experiences.\nReporting to the VP Global Creative, this role sits at the intersection of strategy and creativity. It shapes the opportunity from the outset, refines briefs, identifies the most compelling audience insight, and guides ideas through to persuasive pitch narratives and high-quality execution.\nThe role works across pre-sale and selected post-sale moments, ensuring strategic thinking and creative excellence stay closely connected.\nLead strategic and creative responses for partnership briefs, RFPs and proactive opportunities across sales categories and platforms.\nRefine incoming briefs into clear strategic challenges, identifying the audience tension, human insight and commercial opportunity at the heart of each response.\nShape bold multi-channel ideas that align client objectives, audience behaviours, brand voice and editorial standards.\nOwn the strategic narrative within proposals and presentations, ensuring a clear through-line from insight to idea to execution.\nPartner closely with Creative Directors, designers, editors, media planners and production teams to develop solutions that are imaginative, sellable and feasible.\nRun and facilitate brainstorms, distils and strategic triage sessions, helping the team focus effort where it will have the greatest commercial impact.\nGuide the development of content, experiential, social, video and partnership ideas, ensuring each recommendation is grounded in audience relevance and platform understanding.\nPresent work confidently to senior clients and internal stakeholders, articulating both the creative ambition and the strategic rationale.\nBring an editorial sensibility to commercial thinking, balancing advertiser needs with the integrity, tone and distinctiveness of each brand.\nContribute to workflow improvement, pitch quality, team development and a culture of strategic rigour and creative ambition.\nSupport the transition from pre-sale to post-sale where needed, helping preserve the integrity of the original strategic idea through production and delivery.\nWhat you’ll bring\nExperience in creative strategy, creative direction, branded content, partnerships or integrated marketing within a media owner, agency or publisher environment is essentialHigh curiosity and a strong appetite for learning.\nConfidence experimenting with new tools, formats and ways of working\nStrong ability to turn research, data and audience understanding into clear strategic territories and compelling creative platforms.\nExperience developing concepts for integrated campaigns spanning content, social, experiential, video, editorial and media.\nExcellent writing and storytelling skills, with the ability to create clear pitch narratives and strategic framing, independently\nStrong presentation and stakeholder management skills, including confidence with senior clients and leadership teams.\nCommercial awareness and sound judgement on what level of strategic and creative investment a brief warrants.\nStrong editorial instinct and a nuanced understanding of how to create advertiser solutions that feel credible within trusted brands.\nWhat we offer\nUncapped leave\nEnhanced parental leave\nDiscounted rates with Dental care and Private Medical care\nWhen we hit our targets, enjoy a share of our profits with a bonus\nRefer a friend scheme - with payment following the successful hire.\nWell-being support with access to our Colleague Assistant Programmes\nOpportunity to purchase shares in Future, with our Share Incentive Plan\nSalary sacrifice Pension scheme up to 5% match\nFree drinks and snacks in our offices\nThe expected range for this role is £60,000 - £70,000\nThis is a hybrid role, working three days per week from our London Paddington office.\nInternal job family level Commercial 5\nInclusion and Diversity at Future\nAt Future, we’re working to attract, retain and foster diverse talent, educating our colleagues in the importance of diversity, and review our internal processes so that they remain as free from bias as possible. We recognise that, in order to reach diverse communities through our content, we must first ensure ours is a culture in which diversity can thrive.\nFind out more about Our Future, Our Responsibility on our website.\nIf you need any reasonable adjustments, please let us know, and we'll be happy to support you.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5780,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Media & Entertainment","Publishing","Content Creation","News Agencies"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-24T12:22:04Z"},{"event":"close","at":"2026-09-25T16:45:38Z"}],"liveness":null,"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":92564,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/future-publishing-senior-creative-strategist","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/future-publishing-senior-creative-strategist.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-26T01:46:29Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1776,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":3224,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-27T00:00:00Z"}}}