Senior strategist

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Senior strategists — join us!

The senior strategist plays a pivotal role as the lead strategic brand thinker on a project — often more than one at the same time. The role involves working closely with the design team and our clients to join-the-dots, hold the strategic thread, guide ideas, facilitate discussion, and inspire creativity. Always collaborating in an open and positive spirit.

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The role in a nutshell

This role is about being the lead strategic mind on a project, responsible for defining the key strategic elements of a brand, and holding the strategic thread on a project — collaborating, guiding, and inspiring the creative team and our clients.

You’ll work directly with the strategy director, while nurturing the development of less experienced strategists, to help them grow and develop.

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Duties & responsibilities

The role focuses on five overarching areas:

• Research Carry out meaningful primary and secondary research with rigor and flexibility
• Facilitation Design and facilitate engaging workshops to aid engagement, gather opinion, or build consensus
• Analysis Summarise research into usable, understandable insights and recommendations
• Thinking Join the dots to develop simple, clear, compelling, and creative brand strategies
• Writing Articulate insights, ideas, and messages using simple, understandable compelling language

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Your attitude

We’re looking for someone who:

• Is looking to learn, listen to feedback, and develop
• Is proactive with a can-do attitude
• Is a willing collaborator, keen to share, and knows how to get the best from others
• Is a personable and positive character who thrives on solving problems
• Is both energetic and enthusiastic while also sensitive and empathetic to the needs of colleagues and clients
• Is ambitious for yourself, the work, our clients, and MultiAdaptor

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Your capabilities

Strategy

• Be able to lead and define all the elements of a brand strategy
• Be able to construct concise compelling arguments with imagination and clear rationale
• Help clients imagine new possibilities for the brand by drawing on relevant examples
• Be naturally persuasive in all situations and help clients take risks
• Have a strong holistic understanding of the dynamics of modern businesses, how they work, and what makes them succeed
• Be interested and tuned in to the world at large in terms of society, art, creativity, culture, and technology
• Be a source of new, unconventional, and creative thinking to inspire our team and work

Process

• Be comfortable working with MultiAdaptor’s strategic tools, frameworks, and processes, but keen to introduce a few of your own and develop new ways to think
• Be confident working on your own and as part of a team
• Be very well organized, an excellent planner, and a clear holder of the big picture
• Understand the commercial imperatives of a design business

Communication

• Be an engaging presenter
• Have excellent writing skills
• Create well designed, logical, and imaginative presentations

Leadership

• Take responsibility for the strategic outcomes on a branding project setting it up for the best possible success
• Support the growth of less experienced strategists and nurture their growth through guidance and coaching
• Actively champion the role of strategy inside MultiAdaptor and with clients

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Your experience

• 5-7 years experience within a brand or advertising agency
• Currently holds a strategic role, looking for an opportunity to step-up and shine
• Hands-on experience defining brand strategies for a range of clients
• We’re interested in candidates from both design and non-design backgrounds

We look forward to connecting with you!