Department:

Strategy

Reporting structure:

Role reports to: Director of strategy and planning

Team members: Futures director, senior strategic futures analyst, strategy director, senior strategist

Key responsibilities:

: Lead the application and translation of our foresight by devising trend frameworks that pull together a picture of key consumer, societal and cultural macro trends : Support teams to design and deliver workshops to unpack trend implications and ideation into identified innovation areas or creative platforms

: Conduct expert interviews, focus groups and other forms of consumer and stakeholder engagement

: Build and lead client relationships up to senior level, establishing yourself as a credible expert in strategic futures and foresight

: Be a strong voice for foresight and trend strategy within the business, writing and sharing case studies and useful insight with other teams

: Coach, inspire, and help to mentor junior members of the team. Educate and train colleagues by sharing knowledge on an ongoing basis

: Lead medium sized projects from proposal to delivery and collaborate to set project objectives, define project phases, and use project resources effectively to deliver practical results

: Form a deep understanding of the client’s challenges in short-, mid- and long term – look at the brief with a wider contextual view. Challenge the client’s brief when necessary : Represent The Future Laboratory through profile-raising initiatives including panels discussions, presenting, and writing occasional op-eds

: Building strong relationships with business development and project management colleagues is essential

The Trends Intelligence remit:

: This role has a critical bias towards the delivery of the more strategically driven trend frameworks - but does not exclude providing futures context, direction, and support to our more strategic programmes, to develop future growth opportunities, communication strategies and creative brand platforms

: This role will act as an ambassador between strategy and foresight, ensuring the trend intelligence and foresight framework are strategically healthy and fit for the purposes of application in a client environment

: The KPI’s set against this role will focus on the evolution of our Strategic Futures reports, Foresight Frameworks and Foresight Programmes playing a key role in pursuing new business opportunities for relationships of this nature and their ability to lead to further strategy work for the business

: This role will be required to review and report on the efficiencies and effectiveness of projects delivered for clients and continuously seek to improve and refresh the approaches that ensure the delivery of directional, actionable, and measurable strategies

Equal Opportunities:

The Future Laboratory is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to championing inclusion, diversity and equity throughout our organisation. Our interview panels will include people of global majority (PGM) to reduce implicit bias and where possible a team member at the same level of seniority as the role we are hiring for. Interviewers and panellists have also completed an allyship training course to ensure everyone receives the fairest opportunity possible.
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Responsibility of all team members:

We are a multi-disciplinary team; however, The Future Laboratory has a set of expectations that apply to all team members regardless of role and seniority. Team members must treat everyone with dignity and respect, regardless of seniority and background. All team members must work together to create a fair and equitable environment.