Senior Strategist

Shoreditch, London (hybrid – studio-based with up to 2 remote days)

Household is a global award-winning creative agency specialising in brand and experience design. Since 2004, we’ve been shaping better futures for brands and their fans. Through strategy, brand, experience, and retail innovation, we collaboratively design sustainable growth for clients, customers, communities, people, and planet.

Proudly B Corp, creativity is our greatest tool for change, and we do it without compromise.

The role:

As a Senior Strategist at Household, you’ll lead your own workstreams and collaborate across the team to bring clarity, unlock opportunities, and turn insight into bold, confident direction. You’ll thrive on strategic challenges, partnering with project leads across strategy, creative, client services and new business to shape standout work. You’ll also play a key role in lifting others up - mentoring junior teammates and contributing to a supportive, curious and collaborative team culture.

What you’ll do:

Strategic

You will develop brand and experience strategies and frameworks, incorporating digital and service design that transform and reframe propositions and future experiences, developing new growth and revenue opportunities in line with changing customer needs.

You will work across multiple projects and assignments.

Client relationships

You will work with clients on a day-to-day basis, building trust and growing your relationship and contribution, demonstrating real understanding of clients' businesses, challenges and opportunities.

You will proactively respond to these challenges and turn them into active opportunities for both client businesses and Household projects. Clients rate your proactivity and lateral thinking on projects.

Research and insight

You will manage and deliver insight projects, supporting the approach and time planning and ensuring you can create purposeful, insightful and commercially optimised brand experience content from first-hand originated data. Research & insight is the key lever to support your strategic approach and ideas.

You will support the Associate Strategy Director in ensuring Fanalytics tools are fit for purpose and optimised to reach the right audiences.

Business Growth

You will develop directional and authoritative thought leadership and Household IP to support our new business plan and ongoing briefs to engage new audiences.

You will lead the strategic inputs and outputs on pitches and new business responses.

What we’re looking for:

You are globally referenced in consumer brand experience, both physical and digital, across food, beauty, health and wellbeing, lifestyle/fashion, entertainment brands and placemaking/hospitality.

You are passionate about creating big ideas with longevity, sustainability and purpose that are good for people, and good for the planet.

You are driven to inspire and develop talent to support Household's proposition and evolving service offer.

You work in collaboration with creative teams, ensuring the seamless transfer of knowledge between strategy and creative.

You take responsibility for the growth of more junior members of the team and are their go-to for guidance and direction.

What Household offers:

• Hybrid working, flexibility to work remotely up to two days per week

• Bonus schemes

• Private medical & dental insurance

• Life assurance

• Enhanced maternity & paternity leave

• Extra time off: Christmas to New Year closure

• Your birthday off that comes with a £100 restaurant voucher

• Bike to work scheme with on-site bike storage

• Annual season ticket loan

• Dog-friendly studio and policies

• Regular socials including breakfasts, lunches, and an away day summer party

At Household, diverse minds drive breakthrough ideas. We’re an equal opportunities employer, championing DEI in everything we do.

If you’re excited by building better futures for brands, people, and planet, we’d love to hear from you.