Freelance Creative Strategist
UXUS, Netherlands
Job Description
Job Summary
For our office in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, UXUS is seeking for freelance Strategist(s) who are available for collaboration in the coming 3 to 4 months ( to start with) and support our multidisciplinary team with their clients’ projects.
The role of the (freelance) Creative Strategist is to bring strategy, creativity, analysis, business acumen and cultural insight to developing and delivering strategic content for our clients.
As Creative Strategist you will be responsible for designing services and customer experiences as well as designing, scoping and run research that will help us tackle our client's design challenges.
Together with our multidisciplinary teams you will collaborate with the world’s biggest brands across diverse industries to reimagine their vision into emotive experiences that redefine categories.
Candidates will have to be based in the same time zone as Amsterdam, The Netherlands ( max time difference 2 hours) and be available for work during the working hours of the Amsterdam office (9am to 6pm).
Responsibilities
- Craft new experiences against brand values, purpose, positioning and personality
- Write creative briefs, presentations and additional project material
- Design and facilitate co-creative workshops
- Deliver compelling, dynamic strategic point of view for our clients
- Appraise clients’ brand equities, identity and benchmarking, including semiotic analysis
- Analyse competitors, consumers and categories in order to propose brand opportunities
- Identify and apply relevant trends in global consumer culture
- Develop brand architecture, naming, strategy, positioning, planning and innovation
- Gather and analyse quantitative and qualitative research to shape strategy
- Map existing consumer journey to identify experience gaps and better alternatives
Requirements
- Minimum of 3 years creative strategy experience is a must (within design or retail industry is a plus)
- Experienced in developing customer journeys
- Strong knowledge and curiosity of current and future culture
- A confident presenter and communicator
- Excellent skills in creating documents a good quality writer and able to demonstrate clear story telling ability
- Experience of working on international projects
- Ability to work with multiple types of clients and team disciplines
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment within tight deadlines
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with Clients, Design and Project management team
- Excellent communicator; able to bridge lines of communication at all levels and ability to demonstrate diplomacy and collaboration
- Excellent command of English language (our company language) written and spoken.
- Demonstrated intercultural awareness and ability to interact with a diverse team within UXUS and within our clients’ network
- Articulate, assertive, self-motivated and enthusiastic
- Strong Internet and computer skills
- Excellent multi-tasking abilities
If you are interested, we invite you to submit the following, as soon as possible :
- CV in English ( maximum 2 pages)
- Brief introduction about yourself, highlighting your previous experience(s) as creative strategist
- Your hourly fee in EUR ( ex VAT)
- Portfolio or an overview of the projects you have worked on
- Your availability for the coming 4 months ( hours per week)
- Client testimonials, if available
Incomplete submissions will not be considered.