Normative
11 - 50 employees
Founded 2008
🏥 Healthcare
📣 Marketing
📦 Logistics
Healthcare • Marketing • Logistics
Normative is a full-service innovation firm that blends strategy, design, and technology to help leaders design what’s next. The company partners with large organizations and startups to research customer needs, create innovation practices and labs, design service and product experiences, and build minimum viable products and digital products for regulated sectors like healthcare, finance, government, and media.
Foresight Strategist – Contractor
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Normative
11 - 50 employees
Founded 2008
🏥 Healthcare
📣 Marketing
📦 Logistics
Healthcare • Marketing • Logistics
Normative is a full-service innovation firm that blends strategy, design, and technology to help leaders design what’s next. The company partners with large organizations and startups to research customer needs, create innovation practices and labs, design service and product experiences, and build minimum viable products and digital products for regulated sectors like healthcare, finance, government, and media.
📋 Description
• Support strategic foresight research, including horizon scanning and the identification of signals, trends, and emerging shifts relevant to client challenges • Build and maintain evidence-rich trend and signal libraries, capturing examples with concrete artifacts, screenshots, and source references • Conduct competitive and global inspiration scans, distilling how markets and behaviours are evolving into clear, tactical insight • Synthesize multiple inputs into cohesive patterns, themes, and near-term foresight that ground recommendations in real evidence • Translate research and synthesis into prioritized opportunities and tactical recommendations that clients can act on • Design and produce high-quality visual artifacts - trend cards, frameworks, scenario visuals, journey and summary graphics - that make complex thinking clear and compelling • Support lightweight qualitative research activities, such as interview preparation, note synthesis, and surfacing quotes and signals • Collaborate closely with senior strategists and cross-functional teammates through working sessions and reviews to shape and sharpen direction • Bring rigor, creativity, and a highly collaborative mindset to deliver polished, decision-ready outputs.
🎯 Requirements
• A Master's degree in Strategic Foresight and Innovation (or a closely related foresight/futures discipline) • 1-2 years of experience applying strategic foresight methods in a professional, research, or consulting setting • Strong foresight acumen: horizon scanning, signal and trend analysis, pattern recognition, scenario thinking, and synthesis • Previous experience in graphic design, with strong, demonstrable visual craft and a portfolio of well-designed artifacts • Proficiency in design and collaboration tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Miro, and similar, with a willingness and ability to learn new software as required • The ability to translate dense, ambiguous research into clear narratives and compelling visual communication • Experience gathering, organizing, and making sense of qualitative inputs from multiple sources • Experience leveraging AI-assisted tools and methodologies to drive new ways of researching, thinking, and working • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present ideas with clarity and diplomacy • Strong time management and organization skills, with a demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks in a deadline-driven environment • A continuous learning mindset, staying curious about emerging trends, technologies, and behaviours • Comfort with ambiguity and an adaptive mindset that allows you to remain productive and grounded in evolving contexts.
🏖️ Benefits
• Fully remote work • Flexible working hours • Professional development opportunities
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