The role
We are looking for a Junior Strategist to join our growing multidisciplinary Strategy team. You’ll report into an Associate Strategy Director and will work closely with Purpose, Sustainability, Social Impact and Creative strategists, often forming a multidisciplinary team to support our clients’ exciting ambitions to become purpose-driven brands and businesses. Your role will include unearthing compelling insights to form the basis of a forward-thinking strategy, working collaboratively with the team to develop fresh thinking and new ideas, supporting the design and delivery of brilliant workshops, and playing a key day to day role in the delivery of projects.
We are a growing organisation, and the projects we work on are varied and fascinating. Roughly one third of our work is in the communications space (either corporate comms or brand comms / brand experience innovation), one third is in sustainability and social impact strategy, narratives and reporting, and one third is around defining a purpose and then embedding purpose into an organisation’s decision making, ways of working and culture.
You don’t need to have experience in all of these areas, but we need someone who is excited about all areas of our work, and recognise that compelling insights, storytelling and creativity are key, whatever the medium or audience.
About you
We want someone who is as passionate about making businesses and brands a force for good as we are. You will still be early on in your career, ideally with some previous client or strategic consultancy experience (~1-3 years). Your experience so far may include playing a supporting role in one or more of the following areas:
Transforming culture through setting and embedding values, behaviours and mindsets
Helping to shape a purpose and bring it to life within the organisation
Developing ambitious sustainability strategies and/or social impact strategies & programmes
Engaging colleagues and stakeholders behind a new purpose, change in vision / strategy or organisational transformation
Running successful internal engagement and communication programmes
Developing corporate communications or brand activation campaigns to external audiences
Skills needed:
Supporting on delivering strategic and analytical thinking
Insight gathering for creative and strategy development
Able to help shape key strategic deliverables, such as insight debriefs, creative briefs, workshops, stakeholder interviews and strategic presentations
Passion for creative thinking and bringing new ideas to the table
Excellent communication skills
Ability to offer a point of view that’s based on past experience
Collaborative working style and an appreciation of the benefits of working within a multidisciplinary team
We’re looking for someone who can demonstrate confidence in their own experience, has a solutions focused and proactive attitude, and who is collaborative and hands on in their approach. You must be comfortable supporting multiple projects at once, delivering to project timelines and producing exceptional work (with targeted guidance and support from senior colleagues). Importantly, as a growing, ambitious business, we need you to feel comfortable applying your skillset across different types of projects, clients and challenges, which may not always fall directly within your existing skillset or experience.
Beyond client work, you'll have the ambition to drive us forward and support the agency to grow and develop through playing a supporting role in new business.
Recruitment process
Our first step will be a 30 minute phone call to understand a bit more about you and why you’ve applied. Next, we’ll invite candidates to a first round interview to get into more detail about your experience and expectations of the role. The final stage will involve answering a short brief that should only take a few hours of your time to prep, and present back to us. We’d love it if at least one stage of the interview process was face to face in our Shoreditch office.
About us
Given is the agency for purpose-driven brands. Everything that we do is about making brands a force for good, helping create positive change for people, communities and the world. Working with ambitious clients on the creation and execution of purpose, sustainable business strategies, innovation and creative campaigning and storytelling we are seeing the demand for the support that we can offer grow exponentially.
We offer great benefits, a collaborative and creative environment, impactful and meaningful work, brilliant career opportunities, and the chance to work with some of the biggest and best brands in the world. Our work has helped national and international brands like IKEA, John Lewis & Partners, Nespresso and Bupa, define and execute on their brand purpose. We fundamentally believe it takes both insightful strategy and imaginative creativity to change things for good, so we have both under the same East London roof.
