Creative Strategist - Ftc

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6 Month FTC

Location: Hub based! Bristol or London. Required 2 days a week in office

3 days per week you have the flexibility to work wherever suits you best

Team: Brand Strategy & Management

Salary banding: £45,000 - £55,000

Experience: Mid-level

Working pattern:Full-Time

Reporting to: Dan Marsh, Brand Strategy Lead

Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

This role in 3 words: Strategic, Creative, Integrated

Top 3 qualities for this role: Independence, Communication, Empathy

In the words of the team, you should leave your current role for this one because .

"Creativity runs throughout OVO. You see it everywhere you look, and our culture genuinely helps it thrive, particularly in our brand and design studio teams. This role will be vital to maintaining our high creative standards, demonstrate its value to the wider business and continue to help us change energy for the better. Its an exciting challenge, and we can't wait to welcome the right person to the team."

Everyone belongs at OVO

At OVO, we are on a mission to solve one of humanity's biggest challenges, the climate crisis. And we know it takes all of us to change the world. That's why we need diverse people from all abilities, gender identities, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, life experiences and backgrounds to join us.

Teamworking for the planet

Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero. So, naturally, the team you'll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen. Here's how:

Our brand strategy & management team are responsible for creating the frameworks for success - think brand positioning, guidelines & brand toolkits. Ultimately helping the business work towards our common goal - making energy work for people and planet. We are looking to expand this remit to include creative strategy - developing best-in-class creative briefs for our in-house studio to develop work that combines strategic alignment and creative vision.

This role in a nutshell:

Got that creative instinct and a flair for collaboration? We're on the lookout for someone who can interrogate problems, search out killer insight - and bring a room together on the journey to great creative. Who believes in creativity as a way to solve business problems, and who's quick to step up and do what needs to be done, working seamlessly as part of a team.

This role will range from interrogating BAU briefs to make sure they contain all the right info and best practice, through to writing your own compelling creative briefs for key projects ranging from CRM and performance marketing campaigns to office branding concepts and video content. You'll work closely with our expert team of designers and copywriters and an extended network of creative specialists - with support from senior strategists when needed.

Your key outcomes will be:

• A strategic eye for complex creative challenges, writing clear briefs based on customer insight.
• Able to write and communicate engaging and crystal-clear creative briefs to help our in-house creatives deliver ideas that support business challenges.
• Offer a critical eye on BAU briefs from across the business to ensure that best-practice creative inclusions are considered and high quality output is likely.
• E.g. inclusion of best practice for social content, key messaging is kept to a minimum, all aspects of the customer journey have been considered.
• Collaborating with marketing, product and commercial partners to establish the route in for the brief between the business challenge and the human problem.
• Part of the creative review process on complex creative briefs to ensure alignment to insight.
• Help evolve and refine the creative process, finding opportunities to streamline and make it more creatively efficient

Within your first 3 months month you'll:

• Deliver improved creative output & business results through clear briefs based in insight
• Deliver improved efficiencies in creative delivery through clear briefs reducing back and forth during creative development
• Be an expert in OVO's brand strategy, guidelines and tone of voice Be an expert in OVO's propositions
• Be very familiar with OVO's customer experience

You'll be a successful Creative Strategisthere at OVO if you

• Have great communication skills - able to present clearly and make the complex simple
• Can bring people together, navigating multiple stakeholders opinions to form a consensus Have a strong practical streak, balanced with a drive to deliver high quality creative output
• Are organised with a high attention to detail
• Self starter mentality, with the confidence to work autonomously, challenge convention and prioritise multiple projects at once

Let's talk about what's in it for you

We'll pay you between £45,000 and £55,000, depending on your specific skills and experience. If your expectations are a little different, have a chat with us!

We keep our pay ranges broad on purpose to give us, and you, flexibility to match your experience to our zero carbon mission.

You'll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal.

We also offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to help you feel like you belong at OVO and there's flex pay. It's an extra 9% of your salary on top of your core pay to use as you like. You can take it as cash, add to your pension, or choose to spend it on a huge range of flex benefits.
Here's a taster of what's on offer:

For starters, you'll get 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays).
For your healthWith benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and more
For your wellbeingWith gym membership, gadget, travel and cyber insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, DNA testing, dental insurance, and more For your lifestyle With extra holiday buying, discount dining, culture cards, tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donations
For your home Get up to £300 off any OVO Energy plan (when you pay by Direct Debit), plus personal carbon offsetting and great discounts on smart thermostats and EV chargers
For your commute Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing, plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans
Want to hear about our full range of flexible benefits and progressive people policies? Our People Team can tell you everything you need to know.

For your Belonging

To find better ways to support our people, we need to listen to each other's experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this, we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people, for our people - so when you join OVO, you can play a part - big or small - with any of the Networks. It's up to you.

Oh, and one last thing

We'd be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes yet we also believe it's just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what we're looking for but not every single thing, go ahead and hit apply. We'd still love to hear from you! If you have any additional requirements, there's a space to let us know on the application form; we want to make the process as easy and comfortable for you as possible