Senior Creative Strategist
Are you a Senior Creative Strategist looking to make your next move? If so please ring Amelie on 0161 564 9625
£40,000 - £50,000 PA
About the Company:
An ambitious, high‑energy events and experiential agency partnering with world‑leading brands to create unforgettable Retail, Live and Digital campaigns that hit hard and deliver maximum impact.
About the Role:
As a Creative Strategist, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping insight‑led strategies and developing campaigns grounded in real‑world behaviour. You’ll bring clarity and direction to the work, helping teams unlock the “why” behind the brief and translate it into powerful creative opportunities.
You’ll be hands‑on throughout the creative process, sleeves rolled up, contributing ideas, refining them, and helping land them with impact. You’ll push teams to think differently while staying rooted in what audiences care about.
Key Responsibilities:
- Proven experience in an agency strategy role.
- Below-the-line experience (promotions, POS, field, experiential, CRM/direct where relevant).
- Strong understanding of consumer brands and passion for consumer brands with an instinctive curiosity about the strategies that make them thrive.
- Hands on experience leading category safaris in both on trade and off trade environments.
Skills and Expertise:
- Digging into audience behaviour, exploring cultural signals, trends and category dynamics to uncover insights that shape strategic direction.
- Developing strategic foundations, turning research and insight into clear, compelling creative strategies that guide ideation and keep teams focused.
- Collaborating with creatives, working side by side with creative teams to translate sharp thinking into culturally relevant ideas.
- Interrogating briefs, identifying the real problem to solve and spotting opportunities for standout work.
- Contributing to ideation, bringing fresh thinking, cultural awareness and a strong point of view to creative sessions.
- Supporting research and planning, conducting desk research, mapping audiences and exploring trends to inform strategic recommendations.
- Presenting thinking, sharing insights, strategies and ideas with internal teams and clients in a clear, confident and compelling way.
- Championing cultural relevance, ensuring all work feels timely, resonant and rooted in real world behaviour.
Benefits: A competitive salary / Christmas shut down and your birthday in addition to holidays and bank holidays / Enhanced Maternity and paternity benefit / Enhanced Sick Pay / Private Medical Insurance / Medical Cash plan / Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
About Nova
At Nova Recruitment, we hold a wealth of experience and trade knowledge. We utilise expert search strategies and established industry connections to offer the best support for you and your business. Based in the heart of Manchester, we operate across the whole of the UK sourcing professionals across various sectors.
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