Posted 4 months ago
Strategist
@ Groupe LG2
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Groupe LG2 is hiring a full-time Strategist to bring strategic thinking to creative work at its agency. The role defines project scope, builds client stories and pitches, facilitates workshops, and leads the agency's strategic processes and best practices.
Responsibilities:
- Define project scope and allocate strategic resources
- Develop compelling client stories and new business pitches
- Lead stakeholder interviews and facilitate workshops
- Analyze research and trends to recommend strategic approaches
- Write creative briefs and brand, communication and digital strategies
Requirements summary:
- Strong marketing acumen and social media strategy expertise
- Excellent critical, analytical and lateral thinking
- Solid qualitative and quantitative research skills
- Strong leadership, interpersonal, selling and negotiation skills
- Strong written and presentation communication skills
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Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-07-24
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-10
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-06
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Job details
| Department | Marketing |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
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Groupe LG2
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Create Progress. | Créons le progrès.
Full company description
LG2 is a creative agency that firmly believes its work must serve progress. Based in Montreal, Quebec City and Toronto, we are the largest independent agency in Canada. Our areas of expertise allows us to help our clients go further each day and create a true brand experience. Our dynamic culture of progress gives our team of over 450 passionate professionals a foundation to question the status quo. To stay curious. And to create real and lasting positive change – socially, economically and environmentally. For brands. For our communities. And for all of us. Together. Create progress.
- LinkedIn followers
- 65,604
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 450
- Reported office locations
- 4051 Rue Molson, bureau 100, Montreal, Quebec H1Y 3L1, CA
- 79 Boulevard René-Lévesque E, Suite 320, Québec, Quebec G1R 5N5, CA
- 161 Liberty Street East, Suite 300, Toronto, Ontario M6K 3G3, CA
- Business categories
- Advertising
- Marketing
- Advertising & Public Relations
- Media and communication
- Other recorded names
- Groupe LG2
- LG2
- Specialties
- Publicité
- Promotion
- Interactif
- Design
- Expériences numériques
- Architecture
- Technologies
- Emballage
- Publicité
- and Digital
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- No
- Reported total investment
- 0
Currency and observation date were not supplied; this is not a current valuation or a funding round.
LG2 is a creative agency that firmly believes its work must serve progress. Based in Montreal, Quebec City and Toronto, we are the largest independent agency in Canada. Our areas of expertise allows us to help our clients go further each day and create a true brand experience. Our dynamic culture of progress gives our team of over 450 passionate professionals a foundation to question the status quo. To stay…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Business Consulting and Services |
| Company size | 201-500 employees |
| Headquarters | Montreal, Quebec |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Year founded | 1991 |
| Specialties | PublicitéPromotionInteractifDesignExpériences numériquesArchitectureTechnologiesEmballagePublicitéand Digital |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 37 |
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The Strategist brings strategic thinking to inspire compelling creative products. They are constantly refining and evolving the strategic process at the agency. They work closely with various levels of client and internal and external cross-functional teams. They will provide support in facilitating sessions with anyone, from executives to creative directors to junior developers, inspiring creativity and focusing insights
Responsibilities
Help to define the scope and recommend appropriate strategic resources and allocations for projects
Proactively identify new opportunities for client growth, enforce processes, provide quality assurance and implement best practices across all engagements
Support new business pitches by developing strong, compelling stories based on insights
Develop and maintain relationships with key clients, identify new, unmet needs and introduce new opportunities accordingly
Drive creative/innovative solutions that will make an impact on client ROI
Lead development of the agencyʼs strategic POV, processes and best practices
Identify business and marketing hurdles, industry drivers and competitive dynamics
Perform or direct research and analyze trends/results to determine strategic implications
Lead stakeholder interviews and facilitate workshops to obtain knowledge of the brand, marketing and business objectives
Conduct analysis of multiple solution options, develop and recommend a strategic approach that meets clientsʼ objectives, applies customer insights and enables clients to compete effectively
Provide support in authoring various client deliverables suitable for the engagement, including research plans, creative briefs, brand strategy, communication strategy and digital strategy presentations, roadmaps, and recommendations and measurement frameworks
Develop creative briefs that inspire clients and creative teams alike to generate breakthrough ideas and implementation
Collaborate with cross-functional project teams to motivate, create and implement short- and long-term integrated marketing strategies
Ideal Profile
Ability to develop sound POVs on social media strategy and digital engagement strategies
Strong marketing acumen
Excellent critical thinking skills – analytical, creative and lateral
Ability to trawl for insight wide and deep in business, consumer, brand and touchpoint
Solid research skills – ability to understand how to apply qualitative and quantitative learning
Curiosity, entrepreneurship, self-motivation and humility
Strong leadership, social, interpersonal, selling and negotiation skills
Ability to write reports, presentations and general business correspondence
Ability to independently problem-solve
Ability to multitask across clients and projects
Strong communication, analytical and presentation skills
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