Brand Strategy Manager

About the client

Our client is a fast growing boutique brand & experience consulting company and work with clients across healthcare, real estate, and lifestyle sectors to reimagine how brands live across physical and digital environments.

They are lean, fast-moving, and entrepreneurial. What they're building isn't traditional and neither is this role.

The Role

They are seeking a Brand Strategist who blends rigor with imagination someone confident in frameworks but unafraid to break them. You'll lead the thinking behind branding, customer experience development, and place-making strategies across high-impact projects in Malaysia, such as hospital group rebrands and real estate experiential development.

This is an ideal role for someone mid-level who wants more ownership, more growth, and the rare opportunity to shape a business from the inside.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate client's needs into clear brand, CX, and placemaking strategies
• Conduct competitive audits, market research, stakeholder interviews, and personal development
• Develop positioning, messaging, brand architecture and rollout plans
• Work closely with visual designers to bring strategies to life through compelling narratives and creative briefs
• Support execution planning brand guidelines, activation roadmaps, etc.
• Collaborate with project managers to keep deliverables on track
• Present strategic thinking to clients and internal teams confidently and clearly
• Contribute to internal methodology development, toolkits, and IP
• Mentor interns and potentially grow into a team leadership role

You Might Be a Fit If You...

• Have 36 years experience in brand strategy, preferably in a creative or consulting agency
• Have working knowledge of CX design market/consumer insights creative direction, and
• content strategy
• Think in systems, not silos you understand how brand intersects with business and experience
• Are entrepreneurial excited to help build a consulting team and brand from scratch
• Are comfortable with ambiguity and can move from concept to execution
• Have excellent writing, presentation, and storytelling skills
• Are grounded in research but never lose sight of impact
• Are Malaysia-based (willing to be present on-ground for client engagements)
• Are looking for a career-defining role, not just a stepping stone

What They Offer

• High-ownership role with room to lead and shape the business
• Fast exposure to high-level strategy work with major Malaysian brands
• Freedom to create and influence internal tools, culture, and client methodology
• Collaborative environment with design, innovation, and consulting talents
• Option to grow into a permanent leadership position