Foresight, Innovation and Strategy Contract Specialist

🔥 55 minutes ago

🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

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The Sound

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2006

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🤝 B2B

Consulting • Marketing • B2B

The Sound is a consumer research, product innovation and brand strategy consultancy that helps brands, businesses and advertising agencies solve brand, marketing, communications and new product development challenges. They combine qualitative and quantitative market research, ethnographies, social listening, expert interviews, semiotics and AI-assisted analysis to generate consumer insights, strategic brand positioning, customer-journey design and actionable innovation pipelines.

📋 Description

• Undertake and interpret market research to solve foresight, brand strategy, innovation and marketing challenges • Develop insight-led strategic approaches, including Brand Architecture, Brand Positioning, Innovation Sprints, Market Entry, and Jobs To Be Done • Interrogate cultural, social and economic trends as innovation opportunities • Synthesize inputs across industries to develop data-backed, future-proof strategies • Contribute strategic thinking and support to colleagues on projects, proposals and business development • Oversee large-scale, multi-market or complex projects from start to finish, including time, budget and client satisfaction • Analyze diverse inputs and craft cohesive, compelling stories • Facilitate ideation workshops and guide large groups through ambiguous conversations • Build consensus and provide decisive strategic advice

🎯 Requirements

• At least 7 to 10 years of experience in foresight, brand strategy or product innovation • Experience designing and delivering insight-led strategic approaches, such as Brand Architecture, Brand Positioning, Innovation Sprints, Market Entry, and Jobs To Be Done • Familiarity with interpreting cultural trends, consumer journey mapping, and facilitating ideation workshops • Ability to work with and leverage qualitative and quantitative data and insights • Expert skill set in creating tools and frameworks • Capability to steer a project and team through analyzing diverse inputs and crafting a cohesive and compelling story • Strong writing skills • Commercial and advisory mindset; ability to give decisive advice • Facilitation and consensus-building ability • Ability to guide large groups through ambiguous conversations • Self-motivated and able to advance multiple projects despite ambiguity or minimal guidance • Extensive knowledge of strategic foresight, innovation and brand strategy methodologies, frameworks and models

🏖️ Benefits

• Contract project work • Opportunity to work on upcoming and ongoing projects • Engagement with a global exploration, strategy, and innovation consulting agency • Equal opportunity and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion

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