Strategy Intern
FutureBrand
Internship
Remote friendly (London, England, UK)
United Kingdom, United Kingdom
About the job
Job Description
Full time | Internship - 3 months | Hybrid (3 days in office)
Enthusiastic, creative, curious, love to collaborate, and happy to get stuck in? If this sounds like you then the FutureBrand Internship might be for you!
Whether you are interested in our Strategy, or Client Services team, our 2 internship opportunities are inspiring and exciting. We’ve worked with a host of amazing brands, including Nestle, Bentley, Nespresso, NatWest, Sephora, Curry’s… the list goes on!
Whether it’s re-launching a global retail icon, crafting a healthcare’s true purpose, or naming a new tech product, a Strategist wears many hats throughout their day solving complex brand challenges. They have one fundamental job, and that’s to help make brands work better, be relevant, and feel fresh!
Working in close collaboration with our creative, account management and production teams, planners ensure that the agency’s creative output is always as relevant as it is effective, and that customer understanding is demonstrated as every stage of the journey. Through intellect, research, and gut instinct planners will decode culture, category and people to provide inspirational and practical insight into creative and a compelling case to clients. They will also pinpoint that pivotal role for communications in solving business problems.
A Strategist’s toolbox consists of three primary tools:
Full time | Internship - 3 months | Hybrid (3 days in office)
Enthusiastic, creative, curious, love to collaborate, and happy to get stuck in? If this sounds like you then the FutureBrand Internship might be for you!
Whether you are interested in our Strategy, or Client Services team, our 2 internship opportunities are inspiring and exciting. We’ve worked with a host of amazing brands, including Nestle, Bentley, Nespresso, NatWest, Sephora, Curry’s… the list goes on!
Whether it’s re-launching a global retail icon, crafting a healthcare’s true purpose, or naming a new tech product, a Strategist wears many hats throughout their day solving complex brand challenges. They have one fundamental job, and that’s to help make brands work better, be relevant, and feel fresh!
Working in close collaboration with our creative, account management and production teams, planners ensure that the agency’s creative output is always as relevant as it is effective, and that customer understanding is demonstrated as every stage of the journey. Through intellect, research, and gut instinct planners will decode culture, category and people to provide inspirational and practical insight into creative and a compelling case to clients. They will also pinpoint that pivotal role for communications in solving business problems.
A Strategist’s toolbox consists of three primary tools:
- Curiosity… asking questions of our clients, their industry and of wider culture. This discovery and inquisitiveness helps us to truly understand and immerse ourselves in the challenge.
- Clarity… one of the superpowers of a Strategist is taking in-depth knowledge and extract simple but powerful insights and truths. What is the one thing that someone should know and care about? What is it that could change someone’s mind?
- Collaboration… you’d likely think that after all that questioning, we’d have the answers to everything. But the only way we can find any answers is by working closely with our creative, client service and production teams as well as learning from the people who know the brands and products best. Working together evolves our thinking and leads us to intriguing but simple ideas.
Key Responsibilities
- Proactively volunteer to support the rest of the team
- Research creative work beyond advertising. Visit galleries and exhibitions. Report back with cool new stuff to inspire your team.
- Support with putting together status reports, fact-checking along the way
- Schedule meetings and follow ups, helping the teams stay on top of their deadlines
- Support the team with preparing thoroughly before any brief or client meeting
- Take minutes and notes during meetings for follow-up actions and ensuring everything is at its best prior to client meetings
- Source and identify daily news and trends pertinent to your client(s) business.
- Build your familiarity of all research methodologies to uncover key marketing opportunities.
Desired Skills, Competencies And Experience
- Have an entrepreneurial mind-set - don’t wait to be asked or told how someone else does it, find a way and be prepared to get stuck in
- You get right into the nitty-gritty of the work, and keep the wheels turning, with a can-do attitude where no problem is too big or too small
- Have a curious, ever-hungry mind and research creative work beyond advertising. Report back with interesting, new information/trends to inspire your team.
- Be organised, having excellent time management skills and an eye for detail
- Have excellent communication skills – be a natural rapport builder and proactive in approach
- Be continually curious and eager to learn about the general advertising process and our clients
- Be able to adapt to new challenges and be flexible as things change
Based in London Bishopsgate, our office offers a sleek, modern, and creative environment to encourage collaboration within your team and the wider company, as well as other subsidiaries within the building who fall under our parent company McCann World Group.
The internship also boasts a range of benefits:
- London Living Wage Salary
- Hybrid working policy (3 days in the studio)
- An apple laptop for the duration of your internship
- Dog-Friendly office
- Free Breakfast every day
- The possibility to work with some of the most influential brands as well as working on clients’ pitches and briefs
- A buddy and a mentor to support you throughout your 3 months at FutureBrand
- A range of benefits and learning and development opportunities.
Equal Opportunities
We believe that ideas get better when they are inherently diverse and shared in highly inclusive ways and we want to hear from those who think differently from us. We truly believe in the strength of diversity and the richness it can bring. By bringing different people together great things happen.
FutureBrand is an equal opportunity employer (EEO). We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.
FutureBrand is a disability-confident committed employer and will guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets the minimum criteria for the role. Exceptions may apply if due to the volume of applications, we are not able to interview all eligible candidates who qualify under the scheme. If you have a disability, we want everyone to feel at ease when going through our recruitment process. We are working to make our website and processes more accessible, if you encounter any issues and would like this information in an alternative format, or if you need further support with your application, please contact us at FBHR@futurebrand.com for any adjustments you may need to perform at your best.
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