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We work alongside organisations such as PayPal, adidas, NatWest, FanDuel and Money Saving Expert, building digital products and services that make a difference while always putting people first.\nWe’re a team of creators. We write code, shape delivery, build go-to-market strategies, develop AI solutions and create the practices that support our people. We work side by side with our clients, challenging what’s not working and helping them to build the future. Our commitment to craft, quality, and culture has helped us scale to over 600 people in just a few years.\nOur UK Benefits \n35 days leave (including bank holidays). \nPrivate medical insurance.\nEnhanced parental and adoption leave. \nFinancial coaching + 5% pension match.\n40 hours of paid learning and development.\n View our full list of UK benefits. \n CreateFuture is aGreat Place to Work-Certified™ company and has won Best Workplaces UK multiple years in a row.\nJoin us on our journey. Let’s create tomorrow, together, today.\n About the role and team: \nThis is a client-facing role. You own a strategy or transformation workstream end to end, usually within a larger engagement led by a Lead or Principal. You shape the research, frame the problem, facilitate the sessions and build the recommendations, then help the client act on them.\nYou work with CreateFuture's complementary disciplines (Strategy, Design, Product, AI Engineering and Data) alongside the client's own teams, often embedded with them. You are accountable for the quality and commercial relevance of what your workstream delivers, not the volume of it.\nWhat you’ll be doing: \nDiagnose and design\nUnpack highly ambiguous briefs, design tailored research methodologies and sign off all research approaches and outputs\nBuild and manage relationships with research partners for quality and value, bringing in new ones when needed\nReframe the brief when the stated problem is the wrong one, surfacing the challenges others miss\nDefine, test and launch evidence-backed, commercially viable propositions\nUse cultural and economic trends to influence senior client leadership and shape long-term business or brand strategy\nOwn Transformation outcomes \nDiagnose how the organisation needs to transform across People, Process, Platforms and Products\nTranslate strategic vision into realistic operating models, change roadmaps and measurable business impact\nSurface, sequence and own the hard problems that must be solved for change to land\nBuild the commercial case for a value slice with an attributable outcome the client can see within 90 days\nNavigate real constraints (fragmented data, legacy systems, regulatory exposure) without losing pace\nLead AI in the work and for the client\nDrive AI adoption in your engagement team to compress discovery and remove low-value friction\nIdentify high-impact commercial and operational opportunities where AI can transform a client's business model\nDecide deliberately where to automate, augment, orchestrate or stay human, and design AI-enabled workflows that are scalable and governed\nBring AI maturity frameworks and ethical implementation standards into client engagements\nCoach the team and client partners on emerging AI trends, applications and disruptive threats\nGrow accounts and the practice\nHelp design delivery frameworks, manage high-value budgets and scope, and oversee multi-workstream programmes to completion\nAnticipate where an engagement is heading and arrive with a point of view on the next problem before it is raised\nIdentify scope expansion and organic growth, and lead strategy pitches with client partners and sales\nCodify proprietary methodologies, lead internal training and build reusable toolkits for the practice\nCoach mid-level and junior colleagues with clear expectations and psychological safety\nTurn what you learn on live work into insight worth sharing, in client and industry conversations\nWe'd love to speak to you if you have:\nA proven record in a strategy consultancy, digital agency, transformation practice or corporate strategy function, leading engagements end to end\nDefining, validating and launching new products, services or business models\nGuiding organisations through digital change, target operating model shifts and organisational alignment\nPractical AI expertise: using AI tools to accelerate delivery, and framing AI strategy, capability and governance for clients\nConsulting presence, with strong storytelling and the ability to manage client dynamics\nCommercial acumen: consulting economics, scope management, pricing and account expansion\nPeople leadership: running project teams, structured mentoring and cross-functional alignment\nYou are\nA systems thinker who works beyond the boundaries of traditional strategy or transformation roles\nA diagnostic thinker who questions whether the stated problem is the right one\nCommercially fluent, framing change in terms of value and connecting your work to outcomes the client can measure\nComfortable in ambiguity, and able to give confidence to those who find it harder\nAble to flex how hands-on you are, without ego and without letting go of the diagnosis\nAI-literate and deliberate about where AI belongs and where it does not\nGrounded in broader transformation and change, not only AI\nA storyteller who can bring a boardroom, a team and its stakeholders with you\nYou are not\nA programme manager who values coordination over outcomes\nA strategist removed from implementation, or a consultant who produces decks without driving change\nAn advisor who recommends from the sidelines rather than owning the result\nSomeone who imposes a method regardless of fit, or manufactures involvement to look essential\nWhat we’ll offer you:\nWe trust people to do their best work. That means flexibility over rigid rules, impact over activity, and real investment in your growth both professionally and personally. You’ll be part of a supportive, and friendly culture, surrounded by smart, curious people who care deeply about what they do.\nWe offer flexible working, including hybrid and remote options. Our office hubs are located in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, London and Bulgaria, with occasional travel to client sites or CreateFuture offices when needed.\nWe trust you to manage your time balancing collaboration with client time and focused work. What matters is the impact you have, not how busy you look.\nOur hiring process\nWe try to keep our hiring process clear, fair and respectful of your time. We aim to get back to everyone who applies and we will be upfront about where you are in the process.\nIt usually looks like this:\nCall with our Talent Acquisition Team \nRole specific capability interview \nDepending on the role, we might also ask you to do a short presentation, a practical or technical task or have a values focused conversation. We will explain what is involved before anything happens.\nInclusion at CreateFuture \nWe believe diverse teams build better workplaces and better products. We want CreateFuture to be a place where people feel able to be themselves and do their best work.\nIf you need any adjustments or support during the application process, just. 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