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Senior Strategist | Independent Brand & Design Agency | London
4 days a week onsite
Central London
£65-85K DOE
We're looking for a Senior Strategist to make our clients' strategic offer more visible, more valuable, and easier to buy. This is a senior role for someone who can sharpen their thinking, strengthen their creative work, and make their client conversations more decisive.
As a Senior Strategist, you'll take day-to-day ownership of the agency's strategic offer, turning their strategy framework into a practical decision-making tool across live projects, pitches, workshops, thought leadership, and internal ways of working. This isn't a role for someone who hides behind strategy language. We need to find someone who makes things clearer — who can find the real problem behind the brief, turn complexity into useful direction, and help clients and creative teams decide.
About You
You're a Senior Strategist with a very strong background in a brand, design, or creative agency. You have a culture-first approach, interested in the impact strategy has on a brand's business, why brands matter, how they grow, and how they make people feel.
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You're not just a researcher — you're a thinker, writer, facilitator, and creative partner. You can find insight in messy information, turn it into a clear point of view, and make that thinking useful for clients, designers, and the wider agency. You don't only answer the brief; you spot the opportunity it's missed.
You will be someone comfortable leading a senior client workshop, shaping a brief with a designer, or contributing to a pitch.
What You'll Do
- Lead strategy across brand creation, redesign, packaging, activation, portfolio, and innovation projects
- Run discovery, audits, stakeholder interviews, workshops, and synthesis
- Define positioning, purpose, proposition, naming, messaging, brand architecture, and creative strategy
- Write sharp, useful creative briefs that help creative teams do their best work
- Present strategic recommendations to senior clients and help them make decisions
- Contribute to pitches, proposals, and new business conversations
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What You'll Bring
- Strategic clarity — turning complex challenges into simple, useful direction
- Creative translation — briefs that help designers make stronger work, faster
- Commercial judgement — spotting growth opportunities and showing clients what the work is worth
- Workshop leadership — designing sessions that create momentum and decisions, not just conversation
- Confident, clear presenting — able to defend recommendations without becoming defensive
- Independent thinking — you use AI to widen your inputs and pressure-test ideas, but you own the judgement call
This role is a great opportunity to work directly with the Creative Director and Senior team. You'll be part of an independent agency with strong long-standing client relationships and an opportunity to make a real impact.
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