Senior Innovation Strategist Darlinghurst, NSW, Aus $AUD 110-140,000 + SUPER + Bonus - (posted Jan 11 2024)
Company: Resources Group
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Job Spec: Out client is an Australian boutique consultancy at the forefront of innovation, Design Thinking and Qualitative Strategy.
In a nutshell, they solve real-world business problems for an outstanding portfolio of local and international clients across all sectors across Tech, Retail, FMCG, Health and Services. Names include - Lion, Oporto, Cannon, Reach Out, Anglicare, Google, and McCain.
They do this by blending qualitative research, design thinking and creativity resulting in changes such as - new products, new services, new processes, new systems, and new brands.
The role: Senior Innovation Strategist
This role would suit an experienced Innovation Strategist who can integrate qualitative strategy, design thinking and creativity in a full-service consultancy environment, leading projects, clients, and people.
Bespoke, brief-led, no two projects will be the same. In one month, you could pilot VR training programmes for an FMCG giant, design new digital services to support youth mental health, prototype new packaging for a sustainable pet-food brand and deliver innovative training workshops in the USA.
You'll play an influential role in translating data, trends, emotion into insights - turning the complex into simplicity - involved in all elements of projects from brief to design delivery and execution - whilst still being hands on.
Your days will be an accumulation of client account management, winning proposals, managing projects (budgets, timelines, and costs), designing methodologies, facilitating qualitative interviews, workshops, and co-creation sessions, developing thought provoking recommendations and presenting through reports, presentation, training workshops and brainstorming sessions.
Culture:
This agency's culture is emphasises collaboration, transparency, and flat management.
They invest genuinely in employees' personal, professional, and creative growth with tailored mentoring from innovation leaders, weekly internal training sessions, training allowances. and fast-tracked promotional pathways.
About you:
We're looking for an Innovation Strategist with upwards of 5+ years agency experience panning brand planning, strategy, design thinking, qualitative research and UX across a diverse range of clients spanning the likes of FMCG, retail, charity and technology. In addition to, you'll be:
- Confident across all stages of the innovation cycle, and equally comfortable presenting to c-suite stakeholders as you are with being hands on in addition to:
- Have a strong qualitative toolkit - in-depth interviews, co-creations, workshops, immersions, focus groups, evidence-based interventions, services, experimental pilots and rapid prototypes.
- Comfortable grappling with problems with a high degree of ambiguity.
- Not afraid to pish back, and question the why
- Have a desire to knowledge share, mentor and develop junior colleagues
- Lead client accounts and support Business Development
- Loves the variety and pace of agency life.
- Has an eclectic taste in music (they take their office playlists very seriously)
Interested?
About Resources Group
We are the Leading Global Talent Agency for Insights, Analytics & Data Strategy. Our consultants take the time to truly understand your career aims and are dedicated to providing tailored, impartial advice to find you the very best career move. We have access to an unrivalled and exclusive range of job opportunities with trailblazing agencies and blue-chips across Australia, NZ and APAC.
Resources Group's Diversity and Equality Policy determines that we submit applicants to our clients on the basis of merit and ability, regardless of race, colour, age, disability, family responsibilities, gender, marital status, nationality, religious or political views or affiliations, sexual orientation or socio-economic background.
Who to contact: Please contact Emily Moser at Resources Group on +61 2 9258 1121 or email emoser@resourcesgroup.com
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