Job Description

Mid-weight Strategist

Application Deadline: 23 March 2026

Department: Strategy

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: London

Reporting To: Tom Gray

This is an important position within our strategy & creative teams. You’ll have the insight, curiosity, clarity and energy to help develop groundbreaking strategies and ideas, pushing Imagination’s creativity, helping to deliver inspiring and award-winning work for our clients.
Reporting to the Strategy Director, you will work with the other strategists and creatives to develop strategic insights, ideas and blueprints.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the lead strategist in planning and executing multi-layered research: primary, secondary, ethnographic, quant and qual
• Developing clear, compelling insights - that can drive inspiring creative platforms and groundbreaking ideas
• Develop customer journeys
• Identify and qualify strategic opportunities
• Develop concepts, ideas and solutions
• Support and contribute to planning, running and synthesising workshops
• Support in developing clear measurement criteria, working with data to report on effectiveness, develop insights and recommendations
• Collaborate with clients in presentations, pitches and workshops - building valued relationships
• Bring a diversity of thought, experience and perspective into the Imagination team

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• Experience in planning experiential marketing, campaigns, social media, content and events
• Previous experience in an agency environment
• Understanding of creative and design methodologies.
• An understanding of Design Thinking
• Excellent communication skills in both written and spoken form. Easily able to convey ideas simply
• Experienced at designing and executing research - quant and qual.
• Knowledge of customer journeys and user journey planning
• Knowledge and understanding of emerging digital, social, commercial technologies and trends
• Dynamic, self-motivated, open-minded and down to earth in approach
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Creative problem solver who can approach client issues in new ways
• Collaborative approach.
• Have a point of view. Be enthusiastic, coupled with tenacity, resilience and influence to turn strategy into tangible and practical plans for clients.
• Understanding of technologies and their impact on user experiences, browser and mobile technologies.
• Understanding of cultural trends and how they impact audiences and brands.
• Experience across lifestyle, fashion, luxury or automotive

Job Benefits

What we can offer you:

• Work with a state-of-the-art product and deliver it to exciting and innovative brands.
• Learning and development opportunities that contribute to professional growth.

Wellness

• Private Medical Insurance (including discounted gym options)
• Discounted Healthcare Cash Plan
• Help at hand EAP
• In-Office Gym (London office only)
• Life Insurance 4 x salary
• Dedicated DE&I Board

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave
• Birthday day off and gift
• Discretionary Annual Bonus
• Generous Family Leave policies with New Parent Coaching & Support
• Various learning & development platforms for e-learning
• Enhanced pension contribution
• Cyclescheme
• Discounted Private Dental
• Income Protection (Employee)
• Subsidised Electric Car Scheme
• Home technology tax free loan

Perks

• Hybrid Working (3 office days)
• Company socials
• Pet friendly office
• Lunch & Learns
• Wellness webinars
• Educational webinars
• Subsidised Cafe (London office only)