**What's the role?** **Strategy & Insight Manager – News Australia** **News Australia | Sydney | Full Time** **About the Role** This is not a typical publisher strategy role. This is a hands-on, creative position where you’ll get more ownership, more variety, and more stage time than most agency or publisher roles at the same level. We’re looking for a rising creative strategist who is ready to move beyond a supporting role and start leading the thinking. You’ll be tasked with turning briefs—big and small—into powerful, sellable ideas that make brands and audiences lean in. Working closely with NSW’s leading consortium agencies (WPP, OMG and more), you will help shape strategic responses for some of the world’s biggest brands. If you’re hungry to build your strategic voice and see your thinking shape real-world campaigns at scale, this is your next move. **What You’ll Be Doing** Sitting at the heart of our **Strategy & Solutions** team, you will lead insight-driven thinking across a high volume of agency and client briefs. Your focus will be on ideas, clarity, and energy. + Develop insight-led, idea-first responses for major agency partners and brand clients. + Use the scale of our print, digital, social, audio, and magazine networks to build bold, culturally relevant ideas. + Create "big organizing ideas" and cultural hooks that our sales teams can confidently take to market. + Co-present in agency and client settings, taking increasing ownership of pitches over time. + Work with Sales, Product, and Digital teams to ensure ideas are grounded and actionable. + As you grow, you’ll help refine the tools and frameworks that lift the quality and speed of our team's thinking. **Who are you?** This role is perfect for a mid-level agency planner, connections strategist, or comms thinker who is ready to step up. You’ll thrive here if you are idea-first, confident in a room, and energized by variety. **Our Ideal Candidate:** + 3–5 years of experience in media, agency, or publisher roles involving strategy or planning. + Strong presentation skills with the ability to translate audience and cultural insights into a compelling narrative. + You think quickly, adapt fast, and enjoy working across multiple projects simultaneously. + You are comfortable being constructively challenged and enjoy challenging others to think better. + Exposure to brand or communications thinking is essential. While media/publishing experience is a plus, we value how you think over your specific job title. **Why Join News Australia?** + Get real front-of-room experience and exposure to globally recognized brands. + Skip the weeks of "polishing one deck"—you’ll build range and speed by working across diverse categories. + See how great strategy connects directly to commercial outcomes, not just creative theory. + This is a career-accelerator role designed for someone who wants volume, variety, and visibility. **What Success Looks Like** In your first 12 months, you will have lifted the strategic standard of our everyday brief responses, become a trusted voice in external agency conversations, and introduced fresh ways to utilize our diverse product suite. **News Benefits** News Benefits is our way of saying thank you to our people for their valued contribution to News, our audiences, clients and communities. Thanking them for the great things they do daily, for the greater good of Australia. Our benefits include: + **Exclusively ours** - Access to publications and products from across the News Corp family + **Health & wellbeing** - Advice, support and facilities for healthy minds and bodies (including an onsite gym at our Adelaide, Brisbane & Sydney offices) + **Time off** - News offers a range of leave options to support your personal needs and moments that matter in life: Parental leave, Birthday leave, Volunteer leave, Career break and Compassionate leave. + **Helping you grow** - Development opportunities (including diversity and inclusion - focused education series) and recognition + **Financial wellbeing** - Support on making the most of your money + **Perks & discounts** - Exclusive offers across a range of products and services + **Giving back** - Make a difference to our communities. + **Workplace Inclusion and facilities** – Engage with your passions through various employee-resource groups and accessibility to multi-faith quiet rooms & parents’ rooms **Who are we?** We are proud to be Australia’s most impactful media group, we’re even prouder of what we stand for. Together, we inform, advocate and inspire all Australians, for a better Australia. With over 150 brands across news, sport and lifestyle, News Corp Australia is trusted by over 18 million Australians a month to provide the information and inspiration they seek. Renowned for world-class journalism and marketing services nationally and internationally, we offer a fast-paced environment that encourages individuals to take control of their future and challenge themselves in ever-changing fields. In February 2025, News Corp Australia's National Client Partnerships Team was named Sales Team of the Year at the 2024 AdNews Agency of the Year Awards. This prestigious award is testament to the dedication, passion, and innovation that drive our talented team of Client Partnership professionals. **What’s next?** Apply now or for more information on careers at News Corp Australia visit www.newscorpaustralia.com/careers **Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion** _We know that diversity strengthens our teams and newsrooms as we seek to tell stories that represent the diverse communities of Australia that we serve. Our people make us unique and we all have a story. We encourage people of all ages, backgrounds, races, cultures, religions, sexual orientations, abilities and gender identities to apply. Inclusion is important to us and we want everyone at News to bring their whole-selves to work. If you require any accommodations or adjustments throughout the recruitment process, or would like to outline which pronouns you prefer, please feel free to let us know._ **_If you require any accommodations or adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please feel free to let us know. For more information regarding Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at NewsCorp Australia please visit_** www.newscorpaustralia.com/careers **_under the DEI section._** **Category:** Client Partnerships We are proud to be Australia’s most impactful media group, we’re even prouder of what we stand for: Together, we inform, advocate and inspire all Australians, for a better Australia. With over 150 brands across news, sport and lifestyle, backed by a team of more than 5,000 dedicated people across the country, News Corp Australia is trusted by over 17 million Australians a month to provide the information and inspiration they seek across multiple digital, video, audio and print platforms. Renowned for world-class journalism and marketing services nationally and internationally, we are passionate, creative and dynamic. We offer a fast-paced environment that encourages individuals to take control of their future and challenge themselves in ever-changing fields.