London, UK
CMF strategist intern
at Seymourpowell
Seymourpowell is hiring a CMF strategist intern to join its team in London.
The role: Seymourpowell foresight team/CMF strategist intern
What we do
Seymourpowell help our clients grow their businesses by delivering transformative brand experiences that people love.
We are the global design and innovation company with a 35-year history of delivering world first innovations.
Our foresight team is a small and specialist unit within Seymourpowell, comprised of world class design and innovation strategists. We use our expertise in consumer insight, trend forecasting, colour, material and finish, and business strategy to create the conditions for design and innovation to thrive.
We are lucky to work with many of the world’s best loved brands and innovative start-ups. From space ships to sex toys we cover pretty much every category you can dream of.
What we believe
We believe that great design makes things better. Better for people, better for business and better for the world.
What we are looking for
We’re on the hunt for exceptional CMF intern to join our foresight team for a three-month paid internship.
Our business is powered by ingenuity, productivity and visionary thinking. Identifying and developing talent is a passion of ours. We’re keen to bring new views and opinions into our business and to develop new insight products to offer our clients. That means seeking out new talent that pushes us beyond our comfort zone, and that’s where you come in.
As a CMF strategist intern, you’ll be given the chance to master approaches that aren’t taught at university. You will learn your craft under the guidance of some of the world’s best designers and strategists, working on a range of live client projects in multidisciplinary teams that span transportation, product, tech, packaging, digital and brand design.
Responsibilities
As a junior CMF strategist, you would work with more senior team members to:
- track and monitor emerging design and CMF trends so you have a clear point of view on the future
- conduct visual research and craft your findings into mood boards that provide directional inspiration to our designers
- create irresistible colour palettes, that are on trend and brand relevant
- deliver CMF strategies that can be translated in to manufacture, including production specification
- craft compelling digital and physical presentations, that clearly and concisely summarise research findings
- present your work to project team members
- prepare collateral for client workshops and presentations
- develop samples with our workshop team and manufacturing partners
- help us maintain relationships with our suppliers, conducting independent research to identify new and sustainable resources, materials and technologies
- obtain samples to add and organise in our material library
- help us grow our unique materials library offer
- contribute to SP’s social media and marketing activities
You are Seymourpowell if:
- you work with passion – Seymourpowell team is built from a broad range of skills and personalities. What unites our diversity is passion
- you have a love for design – we are looking for someone with a deep understanding of design. You should have a degree that is relevant to a design and innovation company (for example in product, transport, packaging, textiles, or digital) and have experience with CMF research
- you are omnivorously curious – you have broad interests and perspective. You are culturally keyed in and aware.
- you are an instigator – you start things and work proactively taking the initiative in a resourceful way. When you don’t know the answer, you work hard to figure it out
- you are original – you bring new perspectives to challenges
- you are persuasively compelling – you’re a natural storyteller. You have an eye for beauty and a way with words
- you are meticulously concise – you sweat the small stuff, you are considered and opinionated
- you take a critical approach – whilst an optimist at heart, you cast a critical eye over your ideas
- you are solution focused – you like problem solving. You keep our client’s business challenges in focus at all times
- you can make a mean cup of tea
- you play well with others – collaboration makes you tick, and you believe in the adage that two heads are better than one
If this sounds like you – get in touch with your CV and portfolio!