Creative Strategist

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🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🎨 Creative Strategist

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HelloKindred

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201 - 500 employees

💼 Consulting

🎯 Recruiter

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Recruitment • Marketing

HelloKindred is a global provider of marketing, creative, and digital talent, offering services that include both short and long-term contracts as well as direct hires. The company specializes in connecting businesses with creative and innovative talent through its vast pool of skilled professionals. HelloKindred emphasizes efficiency and cost-effectiveness in scaling global marketing efforts, offering both onshore and offshore services that enhance teams with design, content creation, and digital assets. By understanding client needs and fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion, HelloKindred delivers exceptional results through flexible staffing solutions tailored to modern business challenges.

📋 Description

• Develop strategic thinking and planning for creative briefs and projects • Provide upfront insight and strategic development before creative execution • Support pre-sell and pitch processes with strategic thinking and client insight • Translate client and business requirements into clear strategic direction • Develop strategic approaches for external client work and more complex briefs • Partner with creative teams to connect strategy with creative execution • Support projects requiring additional strategic capability beyond the existing team • Adapt strategic support according to the size, complexity, and requirements of each brief • Collaborate with internal stakeholders and external clients to understand business needs and context • Provide strategic guidance across project-based engagements as required • Contribute to building a stronger strategy capability as the external side of the business grows

🎯 Requirements

• Mid-to-senior experience in Creative Strategy • Strong brand/creative strategy experience with B2B, corporate, technology, industrial, or other complex-category experience • Ability to adapt quickly, develop insights, and create strategic narratives • Ability to define propositions and turn complex briefs into clear creative direction • Agency or collaborative creative-team experience preferred • Strong strategic thinking, planning, and development skills across creative briefs • Experience contributing strategy to pre-sell or pitch processes, particularly for external clients • Ability to provide insight and strategic thinking before creative execution begins • Flexibility to support intensive project-based engagements, including approximately three-month projects • Strong collaboration and communication skills when working with creative teams, stakeholders, and clients • Ability to adapt strategic depth and approach to major, complex, or smaller briefs • Ability to work either part-time or full-time hours depending on project requirements • Commercially minded approach to developing strategic capability as recurring external work grows • Must be legally authorized to live and work in South Africa without requiring employer sponsorship

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work setup • Potential contract extension • Flexible part-time or full-time project requirements • Inclusive and equal opportunity hiring practices