Junior Strategist

Department: Strategy

Location: Detroit

Description

To solve innovative challenges for some of the world's most exciting brands, helping to develop outstanding solutions and executions across the Imagination offer of Consulting, Destinations, Content and Live.

To join a high-performing team, work with the best in the business, learn hard skills and grow.

Key Stakeholders:

• Internal
  
  

Detroit and Global Strategy Team - a brilliant, diverse mix of people.

• Clients
  
  

Occasional involvement in key client sessions and presentations, participation in workshops.

• 3rd Parties
  
  

Occasional interaction with freelancers and local market experts.

Key Responsibilities

Work as part of a strategic/creative team to deliver key pieces of work for some of the world's most exciting brands across Imagination's Consulting, Destinations, Content and Live offers:

• Own discrete pieces of research, insight and idea development within larger strategic/creative projects.


• Support Detroit Strategy Director to ensure strategy elements of projects run smoothly - managing timelines, resources and logistics for the team where needed.


• Bring fresh ideas and approaches for research, workshops and creative territories and platforms.


• Support client presentations where required.


• Be a great cultural addition to the team - curious, rigorous, respectful and brave!

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• 3-5 years' experience in a creative agency or corporate marketing communications environment.


• Exemplary written and verbal communications skills.


• Proficient presentation creation and delivery skills.


• Experiential Marketing experience is preferred but not mandatory.


• Automotive experience is preferred but not mandatory.

Benefits

Benefits

Extrinsic Value

• Competitive salary with performance-based incentives.


• Opportunity for on-the-job training and certifications in relevant technologies.


• Low-cost health and wellness benefits


• Comprehensive Paid Time Off


• Hybrid Work Model


• Parental Leave


• 4% Safe Harbor 401k match

Intrinsic Value

• Work closely with experienced Strategy Managers, gaining invaluable industry knowledge.


• Be part of a mission-driven team that values agility, integrity, and excellence.


• Opportunity to contribute to large-scale, high-impact projects from day one.


• Dedicated personal growth & development through our GrowForward programme.

Legislation requirements
Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States in order to be considered for the role.

Imagination believes that diversity, equity and inclusion are more than just words, and more than a legal framework or a moral obligation - they are guiding principles that, when acted upon, make us stronger, more innovative and more creative as an organisation.
We commit to not only significantly increasing our efforts to effect change today, but also to ensure that our efforts will be sustained for the long-term. To support us on this journey we have appointed a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Board to help shape our plans to bring about positive change, to help us learn and keep us all moving forward together.
We believe the responsibility for a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace ultimately rests with all of us.
We believe that all employees should feel a sense of belonging at Imagination - regardless of their race, religion or belief, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, disability or background.
We believe racism has no place within our workplace or our work culture and we reject all forms of hatred, prejudice, intolerance and discrimination.
We believe that Black Lives Matter and it is our expectation that all employees become actively committed to making unbiased choices and are anti-racist in everything they do.
Our Imagination community must share and live these beliefs, as diversity makes us stronger.
Our priority is humanity and our efforts towards a more diverse, more equitable and more inclusive workplace are never done.