Job Title: Midweight creative strategist
Location: Bournemouth (on site)
Hours: Full time – 37.5 hours per week
Would you like to be part of something special? Welcome to Quantum
We’re an independent brand experience agency creating big ideas that work in many places.
Thinking with ambition. Working with agility. Delivering with impact.
Why we exist?
To grow brands through the lens of possibility and potential. To build and inspire a community where brilliant minds connect, brands flourish and consumers act.
Who we work with:
Some of the biggest global FMCG clients including Hawaiian Tropic, Kraft Heinz, William Grant and Sons, Dusk and Takis.
Who we’re looking for
We’re looking for a Midweight creative strategist - a hungry, emerging creative strategist with a sharp eye for culturally relevant ideas and a drive to keep pushing forward. You’re curious to the core, tuned into the world around you, and ready to turn that curiosity into smart, simple, compelling brand thinking.
You’ll shape insight-led strategies and campaigns grounded in real-world behaviour, bringing clarity and direction to the work - and playing an active role in creative ideation, helping turn sharp thinking into culturally relevant ideas. You know how to get under the skin of a brief, and you’re just as comfortable contributing ideas as you are helping refine and land them. You’ll push teams to think differently, while staying hands-on — sleeves rolled up, fully in it.
You’re looking to progress your career working with some of the world’s hottest brands, and you bring the energy and ambition to match. Naturally nosey, always learning, and building on a solid foundation of 2+ years’ experience - you’re ready for what’s next, and we want to hear from you.
Our values
· Be hungry
* You’re obsessed with our clients, brands & consumer behaviour
* You’re always seeking new knowledge
* You’re continuously learning from others’ expertise
· Be brave
* You’re empowered to do things differently
* You’re proactive and resourceful
* You’re unafraid to fail
· Be brilliant
* You never settle for average
* You simplify the complex
What we’re looking for
· A sharp ability to interrogate client briefs, diagnosing the real business problem, constraints, and success measures before work begins.
· Strong strategic thinking, building clear, evidence-led direction from brand, audience behaviour, category dynamics, and cultural insight.
· Experience applying behavioural science to shape propositions, messaging, choice architecture, and activation mechanics.
· The instinct to define a single-minded strategic thought that inspires creative teams and gives them confident guardrails.
· Confidence leading activation planning and channel strategy across in-store, retail experience, digital, experiential, and on-trade.
· Skill in creating comms journeys - audience, role of channels, journey, triggers, barriers, and proof points.
· A talent for crafting and presenting compelling strategic narratives - from insight to idea to activation plan - in a way that lands with clients.
· Collaborative working style, partnering closely with account and creative teams to steer work through feedback, trade-offs, and stakeholder complexity.
· A test-and-learn mindset, building measurement and learning plans that define what success looks like and how insights will inform future work.
You should apply if you have…
* 2+ years agency strategy experience
* A natural flair for creative ideation - spotting opportunities and turning them into ideas that cut through culture
* A grasp of behavioural science and how to apply it practically
* Some shopper marketing and retail experience - understanding path-to-purchase, in-store decision moments, and retailer realities
* Below-the-line experience (promotions, POS, field, experiential, CRM/direct where relevant)
* Multi-platform thinking - can orchestrate touchpoints into a coherent experience and clear channel roles
* Confident workshop, writing and presentation skills - able to tell a strategic story crisply and persuasively
* Appreciation of consumer brands and curiosity into what makes them successful
* An aptitude for storytelling and an open mind and curious nature
* An active voice when participating in team brainstorms
* An ear to the ground on all things consumer, culture and category relevant
* Some experience with facilitating category safaris in the on and off trade
* Skills to write clear and compelling brand platforms, taglines, manifestos and stories; and create competitor analyses to inform brand plans
What we can offer you
* A competitive salary
* Christmas shut down and your birthday in addition to holidays and bank holidays
* Enhanced Maternity and paternity benefit
* Enhanced Sick Pay
* Private Medical Insurance
* Medical Cash plan
* Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
And undeniably a great culture…
* Training & development: If it helps you help the business, it’s worth it! Various internal and external opportunities, such as: professional memberships, online training & subscriptions, mentoring & coaching, professional certifications and more!
* Flexible start and finish times – start between 8 and 10am to suit you!
* Socials including cheese & wine nights, pizza on the beach, electric go karting, padel and more!
If you want to be part of a hardworking, fast-paced, and fun agency – send us your LinkedIn link and 3 reasons why! To