Senior Strategist

Looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic Senior Strategist to join our brand strategy and innovation consultancy.

Introducing: Huxly

Huxly is a brand strategy and innovation consultancy, specialising in food, drink, and personal care. We are changing the way our clients build brands, with a range of innovative approaches to help our clients to create brand experiences that express the way they are experienced with all the senses. For example, we tap into the experience of MMR’s sensory scientists to gain unprecedented insight into the way consumers sensorially experience brands, creating holistic propositions that consumers love. Huxly has a client list to be proud of, a strong track record of project wins and highly satisfied clients, and we have big growth plans for 2025 and beyond.

We are part of the MMR group, the UK’s largest privately owned market research company, and we have offices in Wallingford, London, Durban, Johannesburg The Netherlands, Singapore, Shanghai, Thailand, Sao Paulo and New York.

Why Huxly?

Huxly is an informal, creative and highly supportive team, operating in a culture of true collaboration and genuine fun.  We’re also very proud to be part of MMR. MMR offers an open, dynamic, varied and non-hierarchical environment, where bespoke MMR Academy training is offered at every level. We also offer exciting secondment opportunities at our other global locations, as well as a selection of fantastic employee benefits.

What you’ll do:

• You’ll create amazing stories that showcase our strategic thinking – with the autonomy to deliver exciting projects independently, supported by a senior strategy lead as a think partner where you need it
• Lead creative qual work – e.g. co-creation groups or creative communities that help us understand how to build brands that consumers truly love to experience.
• Facilitate sections of client workshops, innovation sprints or breakout groups and support your strategy lead in shaping the content.

Requirements

What you’ll be:

• You have a natural, intellectual curiosity about brands, innovation and strategy as well as empathy for the people who buy what we create.
• You thrive in ambiguity, coming up with new ways to solve a client challenge and don’t need a rulebook to be able to find a way forward.
• You have courage to follow a creative approach or positioning from where the insight leads you.
• You enjoy reading from external sources, finding interesting examples in the market and developing a strategic point of view.
• You are passionate about exploring trends that can affect our brands and their challenges.
• You enjoy exploring food, drink and personal care both intellectually and sensorially and have a point of view on it. 
• You consistently demonstrate a strategic mindset in your work, curating insights that are most relevant to a client’s challenge and the ‘so what’ for the client in what you have seen and heard.

Benefits

About Huxly and MMR

Huxly is a small, informal and highly supportive team, and can provide a highly entertaining working environment. We’re also very proud to be part of MMR. MMR offers an open, dynamic, varied and non-hierarchical environment, where bespoke MMR Academy training is offered at every level. We also offer exciting secondment opportunities at our other global locations, as well as a selection of fantastic employee benefits. The MMR Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer