Senior Analyst, Ad Strategy (Fixed-Term Contract)
Location: West London, 3x days a week onsite Contract: Fixed-term contract through to the end of 2026
Pay rate: £330.45/day
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The Opportunity
A leading global media and entertainment business is seeking a Senior Analyst, Ad Strategy to join its growing international advertising team. Following the successful expansion of its ad-supported streaming offering across numerous international markets, the organisation is entering its next phase of growth, focused on maximising monetisation, advertising performance, and long-term value creation.
This is a high-impact individual contributor role suited to someone with a strong background in advertising, ad technology, programmatic ecosystems, and strategic analysis. The successful candidate will work on commercially significant challenges, helping shape decision-making across international markets while delivering clear, executive-level insights and recommendations.
Based in London, the role partners closely with Sales, Marketing, Product, Data, and Regional Business teams, supporting senior leadership during a pivotal period of expansion and optimisation.
Key Responsibilities
International Advertising Strategy
- Support strategic analysis across multiple international markets, taking into account varying levels of market maturity, regulatory environments, and advertiser sophistication.
- Develop market frameworks, comparative analyses, and recommendations to inform global and local business decisions.
- Contribute to product prioritisation and strategic planning activities aligned with commercial objectives.
Executive Insights & Communication
- Create clear, concise, and executive-ready presentations, reports, and strategic documents.
- Translate complex data and analysis into compelling narratives and actionable recommendations.
- Support ad hoc strategic projects and deep-dive analyses as business needs arise.
Programmatic & Advertising Ecosystem Expertise
- Apply strong knowledge of programmatic advertising, ad technology, and the wider digital advertising ecosystem to strategic initiatives.
- Assess industry developments and market dynamics, identifying implications for advertising products, audience strategy, and monetisation opportunities.
- Provide insight into targeting, measurement, audience activation, and advertising data capabilities.
Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate will bring:
- 3-5+ years’ experience within advertising, ad technology, programmatic, media strategy, or related environments.
- Experience gained in consulting, corporate strategy, analytics, commercial strategy, or other structured problem-solving roles.
- Strong understanding of programmatic advertising and the broader ad tech ecosystem.
- Exposure to audience strategy, targeting, measurement, or advertising data solutions.
- Experience working across international or multi-market environments would be advantageous.
- Background within a publisher, platform, ad tech provider, agency, advertiser, or media organisation is highly desirable.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and structure complex business challenges.
- Strong written, visual, and presentation skills, particularly for senior stakeholder audiences.
- Collaborative approach with experience partnering across product, data, commercial, and cross-functional teams.
- Pragmatic, commercially focused mindset with a strong bias towards impact and delivery.
Why Apply?
This role offers the opportunity to influence strategic decisions within a rapidly evolving international advertising business, working at the intersection of data, technology, product, and commercial strategy. It is an excellent opportunity for a commercially minded analyst looking to broaden their impact and gain exposure to senior leadership in a high-growth environment.
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