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About the Role

Leo Toronto is looking for a curious, ambitious, and culturally connected Junior Strategist to join our Strategy team. This role is ideal for someone early in their career who is passionate about understanding people, brands, and culture. You'll work alongside experienced strategists, creatives, and business leads to help uncover insights, shape strategic thinking, and contribute to the development of breakthrough creative ideas. You are someone who asks great questions, loves digging into research, spots cultural trends before others do, and believes that creativity can solve real business problems.

Responsibilities

Support qualitative and quantitative research to uncover consumer, category, and cultural insights.
Support the development of audience profiles, trend reports, competitive audits, and market analyses.
Monitor cultural conversations, emerging behaviours, and media trends to identify opportunities for brands.
Help transform research findings into actionable insights that inspire creative thinking.
Support strategists in developing communications and brand strategies across a variety of clients.
Assist in reviewing client briefs and identifying the underlying business and communications challenges.
Participate in brainstorming sessions and strategic workshops.
Evaluate creative work against the agreed strategy and provide thoughtful feedback.
Champion the consumer perspective in conversations and presentations.
Assist in preparing presentations, reports, and workshop materials.
Contribute to internal and client-facing strategic documents.
Support the team in presenting findings and recommendations with clarity and confidence.
Share interesting trends, articles, case studies, and inspiration with the broader team.

Requirements

0-2 years of experience in strategy, marketing, research, communications, consulting, or a related field.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to synthesize information and identify meaningful patterns.
Proficiency with PowerPoint and Microsoft Office tools.
Experience with research platforms, social listening tools, or analytics tools is considered an asset.

Experience Level

0-2 years

Salary/Compensations

CAD $58,000 - $65,000 per year

About the Company

We’re a creative consultancy. That means we put creativity at the center of all our thinking—be it strategic consulting, design and advertising or product and service design. If you believe in the power of creativity to transform how people think and behave, you’re in the right place.

Equal Opportunity

Leo Burnett Toronto is an equal opportunity employer with a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion. Drawing on valuable perspectives and insights from our unique workforce allows us to continue sharing our best work with the world. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals and will provide appropriate accommodation for candidates with disabilities or accessibility needs throughout the recruitment process, upon request. Please contact our recruiter for any questions, accommodations or specific requests.