Is your mind bursting with concepts and ideas? Do you thrive on the opportunity to present your creative work? Are you always reading and looking for innovation and insight in the world of consumer communications? Are you looking to take the next step in your career?

Splendid Communications, the renowned communications agency, is looking for a talented Creative Strategist to join its team of passionate experts.

We are looking for someone who answers an emphatic yes to the above questions to join our collaborative and hugely ambitious team.

Working across award-winning, high-profile food, drink, retail, lifestyle and consumer tech clients, the successful individual will have the opportunity to have a huge impact working across always-on activity and campaigns.



Responsibilities

Your role will support the Creative and Client Partnership Teams in the following areas:

Identifying and leveraging consumer insights
Devising strategic ways in to tackle a client or new business brief
Working with PR & social teams to develop compelling creative strategies
Generating concepts, platforms, branding and campaign ideas, and ensuring creative answers the brief and remains on strategy
Drafting decks and presenting ideas to clients, with a keen eye for deck design
Leading brainstorms with a selection of techniques up your sleeve
Briefing our designers and Studio team on visual assets required to bring ideas to life
Evaluating and measuring campaign success


What we need from you

You must know your way around a consumer insight, understand market research methods and how to analyse consumer data, as well as be able to lead brainstorms, come up with good ideas (or know a good idea when you see one) in response to client briefs.
You will be passionate about consumer brands and all forms of popular culture, help us deliver to our clients’ extremely high standards.
Your portfolio will have examples of these skills in evidence. You will equally be confident and assured in presenting your work verbally, in writing or visually to a range of audiences, informal and formal.


What we're looking for

Significant experience ideally some of which should be spent in an agency environment
A track record of showing your creativity through ideas, results and recommendations
Confidence and enthusiasm for story-telling and presentations to both internal team members and external clients
Past experience within a creative strategy role is advantageous but not mandatory
Someone with a strategic mind, brimming with ideas and bags of enthusiasm
A junior creative who is looking to progress, learn and take the next step up
An agency client account handler now looking to flex their strategy and/or creative muscle
A client-side brand manager looking for more variety and a faster-paced creative environment
Someone who is looking to be part of an ambitious, fast-moving and growing agency. An agency that has big clients but is small enough for you to have an impact and be involved in all stages of the process, with direct contact with all members of the wider team
An analytical mind with a keen interest in consumer insights and strategy development to help brands grow
An exacting eye and desire to strive for creative perfection


Benefits

Vacay or staycay with 25 days of paid holiday a year, plus eight bank holidays. This rises by 1 day for each year of service to a maximum of 30 days 😊
Celebrate your Birthday with an additional day off 🎂
Unwind during a Christmas Close Down – we close our office between Christmas and New Year, so we give you 3 days extra days off for the festive period🎄
Balance work and home life with our Hybrid working policy – working up to 3 days from home and 2 days a week in the office (across Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday) 💻
Embrace your weekend with an early 4.30 pm finish on Friday 🙌
Take a break during headspace hour - 1 hour guaranteed meeting free per day
Take proper time out with a Sabbatical - after 3 years’ service
Work from anywhere for a calendar month- after 2 years’ service
Try not to work late – we don’t encourage it - but if you find yourself in the office after 9 pm, we will pay for a taxi to get you home safely and provide food
Participate in a discretionary annual bonus scheme as well as bonuses available for new business wins and recruitment referrals
Enjoy enhanced parental pay (varies on service levels)
Look after your health with access to WeCare, a 24/7 online GP, mental health support service, get fit programme and more
Get day-to-day access to support from our in-house Head of Wellbeing
Develop your personal balance with a £100 yearly fund
Mingle with the team at our monthly all-agency socials, Summer and Christmas parties
Stay connected with a company use iPhone
Build your future with our pension scheme
Get fit during your commutes with our Ride to Work scheme
Prefer to take public transport? We can give you a travel loan, interest free!
Lunch provided on a Thursday in the office
And last but definitely not least according to the team: yummy snacks and drinks for those that get peckish during the day


At Splendid we care deeply and are passionate about inclusion at every level of our business. We believe that team diversity enriches our collaborative culture and our work for clients. We are keen to meet candidates from all backgrounds so please get in touch if your skills and experience match our job description. If we can help you by making any adjustments to our application process, please do let our recruitment team know.

The employer reserves the right to close the listing and stop accepting applications sooner than the original deadline. Therefore we strongly recommend applying at the earliest opportunity.

Please state in your application that you found this role through 2WRLDS.

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