Creative Strategist

Elmwood Design Consultancy is a leading global design agency renowned for creating impactful and innovative brand experiences. With a rich history of design excellence, we are committed to pushing the boundaries of creativity and design to deliver outstanding results for our clients.

As an agency, our goal is to be an invaluable agency partner to our clients and help them grow their brands based on evidence-based marketing principles. With access to MSQ’s broader capability set, particularly in digital and tech, we bring greater insight and channel specific expertise to meet the needs of today’s leading brands.

As Senior Creative Strategist you will be a part of a strong strategic team driving upstream business impact and client engagement. You will work in close partnership with the Head of Strategy, as well as brand and insight specialists within the team. You will also work closely with the Executive Creative Director to drive and shape strategic and creative delivery on core clients.

Who are we looking for:

For the role of Senior Creative Strategist, we’re looking for some who is:    

• Insightful, confident and inspirational
• Passionate and knowledgeable about all things design and marketing
• Well-informed about clients’ business and general brand/marketing issues
• Has excellent communication skills
• Enjoys applying strategic imagination to complex brand problems
• Is open to new ideas and able to work in genuine partnership with colleagues and clients
• Approaches challenges and opportunities with a positive mindset

The Role in Detail 

Strategic Delivery

• Provide a clear strategic framework for projects you work on
• Clear, timely and inspiring delivery of Strategy phases on assigned client relationships and new business
• Deliver quality proposals and insightful, considered presentations in response to client briefs
• Facilitate client workshops and internal brainstorms to effectively arrive at inspiration ideas and solutions
• Challenge and interrogate client briefs, analytically and imaginatively to ensure a clear, comprehensive, inspirational project framing internally and externally
• Core focus on – Personal care, Health care, Beauty, Oral Care and Alcohol

Creative Partnership

• Help bridge conceptual brand ideas to actionable design outputs. You will be the link between client objectives and creative execution
• Work with the project team, supporting and pushing throughout all stages of the process to ensure we create work that exceeds expectations
• Identify trends, inspirations and patterns from other categories to inspire the creative team
• Help the creative team make audits more impactful by working with them to develop a clear POV

Client Relationship Building

• Create and maintain strong relationships with senior clients to generate new opportunities
• Continuously add value to client relationships through strategic insight and understanding of the wider business and marketing issues
• Work with the CS teams to drive a more strategic mindset across responses

Business Development

• Support in prioritising and filtering new opportunities
• Undertake new business pitches/initiatives and drive conversation with clients and eventual pitch conversion
• Help build a new business plan to further our footprint in CPG

Thought Leadership

• Assimilate trends and learnings across clients to create thought leadership and useful POVs for clients
• Regular update of our Consumer Brands Strategy playbooks to keep them up to date and aligned with our clients’ needs

Desired Skills and Expertise

• 8 or more years' experience in a design agency environment or facilitating design output client side.

Why Elmwood Design Consultancy: 

• Join a globally recognized design agency with a rich history of innovation and creativity.
• Be part of a diverse and collaborative team of design professionals.
• Work on a wide range of projects for prestigious clients from various industries.
• Opportunity for professional growth and development in the design field.

What We Offer 

• Agency Retreats 
• Hybrid working environment
• Group Health Insurance 
• Group Personal Accident Insurance 
• Curated Learning & Development opportunities 
• Annual festivities, along with various social events throughout the year 
• Fun Studio environment working alongside great and talented individuals 
• We offer 'Recharge Friday' every two weeks, providing our team members a half-day off on Fridays to promote well-being and rejuvenation.