Strategy at Jackman.
Jackman’s strategy team specializes in defining breakthrough business and brand strategies to drive outsized consumer relevance and value creation. Working directly and collaboratively with the most senior leadership teams at our Engagement Partners, the strategy team plays a critical role in defining the future of businesses and the best path to get there, fast. The team is expert at generating actionable human insights, analyzing industry and company performance and dynamics, designing and conducting in-depth customer research, facilitating challenging and transformational conversations with business leaders, shaping compelling and relevant strategies and business models, having a lot of fun along the way.
What You’ll Do.
You will play a vital and central role in every engagement by:
- Helping our partners define their future – You will help uncover actionable insights to define meaningful offerings for customers and new opportunities for businesses.
- Making that future a reality – Whether it’s creating comprehensive financial models to quantify what’s possible or standing up a brand-defining store, you will be critical in ensuring our partners’ long-term visions are fulfilled.
What You’ll Gain.
- Skills/Experience in a Variety of Disciplines – In order to build and action on bold strategies, you’ll get to collaborate with and learn from all of our deep subject matter experts.
- Exposure to Senior Leadership Teams – When you become a Reinventionist, you’re trusted to collaborate with Senior Leadership Teams and have your ideas heard.
- Make a Real Impact – Through all our work, you’ll be the storyteller. Translating the analysis, insights, learnings, and hypotheses into concise and compelling narratives for a variety of audiences – front-line to senior leadership, market analysts and shareholders all the way to end-consumers.
Why We’re Excited About You.
You’re Knowledgeable & Curious:
- You have at least 4 years of relevant work experience (e.g., in consulting, corporate strategy development, customer experience design)
- You have a bachelor’s degree or an MBA with a business or quantitative focus
- You have a strong interest in and love to learn about customer behaviour and its implications on business strategy
- You have a strong intellectual curiosity about people and things – how they work and what else is possible
You’ve Got Skills:
- You have excellent analytical skills and are comfortable with PowerPoint and Excel
- You have excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Your organizational skills are next level, but while you love the details, you are still able to see the big picture
You’re Able To:
- Lead fast paced workstreams from end-to-end
- Synthesize large sets of data and surface meaningful insights
- Collaborate and thrive in a fast-paced, team environment
- Find freedom in a blank page
- Use a hypothesis-driven approach when tackling complex problems, uncovering solutions, and translating those solutions into tangible action plans
- Use equal parts thinking and action in your work
- Partner with senior leaders and executives to shape deliverables and recommendations
- Work cross-functionally with other disciplines including Research, Brand Strategy, and Creative
- Lead and mentor other junior members on the team
We encourage everyone with relevant experience to apply, even if you think you’re this close to meeting all the criteria. We understand that experience is multi-faceted and varied – unique and new backgrounds are best for bold and imaginative thinking.
Why You’ll Love Working at Jackman.
We're a diverse team: strategists, creative directors, marketers, graphic designers, architects, research analysts, writers, IT wizards, user experience designers and digital analytics experts. We're also bakers, marathon runners, coffee roasters, dog lovers, thrill- seekers, bookworms, business owners, treasure hunters, musicians and oyster shuckers.
We love tackling big challenges, sharing what’s new over Slack spam, and hanging out with one another. Here are some of the other things people love about Jackman:
- Competitive compensation including annual cash bonus opportunity
- Benefits and perks include sabbatical, birthdays off, wellness offerings and plenty of others
- Flexible working arrangements
- Internal development and training plus financial support for external opportunities
- Weekly socials and awesome team events
- HQ in downtown Toronto with waterfront views
- Wear what you like to work…within reason
- Bring your dog to work
At Jackman, we are committed to providing an environment that is inclusive and accessible. We are an equal opportunity employer and considers all applicants for employment without discrimination. Please let us know if accommodation for the recruitment/interview process is required and we will work with you to make sure your needs are met.
