Senior Strategist

Role Overview

You will be developing and implementing growth and brand strategies, and solutions for international clients as part of an interdisciplinary team. You will have the opportunity to work with a variety of brands and sectors and make the best work of your career. This will require you to flex your thinking and apply your skills to different challenges and scenarios. You will work closely with Associate Directors and Strategy Directors who typically lead engagements on a day-to-day basis.

You are passionate about contemporary culture, have an entrepreneurial streak and are both a creative and commercial thinker comfortable working with senior stakeholders. You will apply your craft to solve problems, identify and pursue growth opportunities, shape brands and create innovation. This will involve being involved across the end-to-end flight path of a project.

You will be challenged. You will grow. There will be fun.

What You Will Be Doing

• Developing growth and brand strategies and solutions for clients spanning a wide range of sectors and scenarios. These could include identifying white space opportunities, developing new value propositions, revitalising a brand, developing and implementing a culture strategy to launch a new brand or disrupting a category.
• You will apply your craft and skills across programmes and projects from problem/opportunity definition, ideation, exploration, solution development and implementation.
• Developing hypotheses, analysing data, conducting research and drawing insights to develop actionable recommendations for clients.
• Designing and driving a variety of research activities including ethnographic studies and proprietary research techniques.
• Designing and facilitating client workshops including the creation of stimulus and supporting assets.
• Conducting trends research, competitor benchmarking and market analysis.
• Developing and creating engagement outputs and deliverables. Presenting to clients.
• Supporting the development of project approaches and plans. 
• Supporting Directors and the leadership team to nurture and foster client relationships through being a trusted partner and delivering work that advances their business and brand.
• Supporting business development activities including the development of points of view, creation of presentation assets and participating in pitches.
• Mentor and develop more junior members of the team.
• This is a London-based role. We are looking for someone who enjoys and wants to be in the office.
• We work globally and this role requires some international travel (approx 20%).

Skills And What You Will Bring

Essential:

• Minimum 6 years consulting experience at a renowned firm, including being part of interdisciplinary teams and the delivery of client engagements with global brands and innovative companies.
• You bring cross-sector consulting experience. Sectors of interest include FMCG, Food and Beverage, Fashion. Financial Services, Healthcare, Automotive and Luxury.
• Experience of working with and presenting to senior stakeholders.
• You are an expert in brand and growth strategy with an emphasis on value proposition development, leveraging consumer insights and innovation.
• You are a rockstar problem solver and creative thinker who thrives on variety.
• You have a passion and understanding of trends and contemporary culture.
• You are commercially astute and familiar with working with senior stakeholders in large or global corporations.
• You are a hands-on practitioner who directly contributes across the consulting journey through developing ideas and the creation of outputs such as: presentations, assets and other consulting artefacts.
• You are an inspiring verbal and written communicator.
• You are highly collaborative, familiar with agile working practices and modern tools such as Slack, Miro etc.
• You have an active interest in AI tools and are applying them in your work.
• You have a healthy skepticism of AI and apply critical thinking to that, and more widely.
• You develop, write, and share your own perspectives and thought leadership through articles, podcasts etc. and attend industry meet-ups. 
• You have a Degree or Masters in a relevant field.
• You are eligible to work in the UK. 

Desirable:

• An MBA.
• Familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite and prototyping tools such as Figma.
• Visual design skills and sensibilities.
• Experience at giving talks at conferences, meet-ups and industry events. 
• Previous or active entrepreneurial experience. 

Perks:

1. 26 days of annual leave + bank holidays.

2. Annual training budget.

3. Bonus scheme.

4. Health care, dental, and travel insurance.

5. Annual away day and team socials.

Additional Info:

• Salary: £65,000-£80,000
• Reports to: (TBC) Strategy Director or Associate Director

Process

Your application requires the following:

• CV
• Cover Letter
• Links to a recent piece of thought leadership, and your portfolio or personal website
• Linkedin profile