Consultant – Content Supply Chain
Who we are
Optima Partners is a forward‑thinking professional services firm on an exciting growth trajectory. As we scale from 80 to 200 employees over the next two years, we are strengthening our team and are now looking for Content Strategy, Ops and Supply Chain Consultants. We work with leading consumer brands to tackle and overcome complex business and customer problems to drive transformation and champion customer‑centric agendas. We are proud to include some of the leading UK and Global brands among our current clients such as Lloyds Banking Group, NatWest Group, Bank of Ireland, Nationwide, Aviva, Biogen, Eon Next, OVO, Virgin Media O2, BT, HMD Global, Centrica, GSK.
The opportunity
In this role, you'll play a pivotal part in helping companies revolutionise their content supply chain. You'll be at the forefront of guiding organisations through the intricacies of content lifecycle management, focusing on critical areas such as workflow optimisation, DAM (Digital Asset Management), content operations, and content engineering.
The Team
As a member of the Design & Transformation team, you’ll work in a multidisciplinary environment to build, embed, and grow our design capability, methodologies, propositions, and IP. This includes supporting business growth and ensuring we’re equipped to address both current and future client needs. You will collaborate across our consulting, technology, and data science teams, you’ll advocate for design‑led methodologies, helping identify opportunities where design can drive transformation and improve business outcomes.
What you will be doing
In addition to optimising existing workflows and processes, you’ll spearhead the implementation of cutting‑edge technologies like GenAI. Whether it’s architecting a scalable DAM system, designing efficient content workflows, or integrating AI‑driven content generation tools, you’ll be the driving force behind transformative change. By aligning technology investments with business objectives, you’ll help clients achieve greater agility, competitiveness, and customer engagement in today’s fast‑paced digital landscape.
- Lead/support design, strategy, and transformation projects within multi‑disciplinary consulting engagements.
- Provide project leadership to team members and client stakeholders.
- Develop, test, and evolve new design methodologies to differentiate us in the market.
- Actively manage client relationships, ensuring promises are met and building sustainable partnerships.
- Identify and realise opportunities to deepen engagement with existing clients and identify new growth opportunities.
- Support Optima in establishing and scaling the business through thought leadership.
- Craft compelling deliverables that produce tangible outcomes and benefits.
- Master the art of storytelling to resonate with clients and prospects.
- Constantly challenge conventional thinking to explore problems in new ways.
What skills we would like you to have
- An understanding of the future of content, including strategy, operations and engineering.
- An ability to help challenge the ‘content’ mindset of complex organisations and support their content transformations.
- The ability to translate business challenges into solution design options for tools like Workfront.
- An analytically sharp eye and appreciation of when details matter.
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
- A drive to support business teams untangle complex challenges.
- Experience of Content and Digital Asset Management platforms such as Workfront, Monday.com, Adobe Assets, Bynder etc required.
- Experience of working on high‑pressure challenges within a high‑performing team.
What we offer
- Competitive base salary
- Inclusion in our annual discretionary bonus plan with an on‑target performance bonus of up to 15%
- Up to 37 days holiday, inclusive of personal and public allocations, of which 7 are fixed days (Christmas & New Year) and 30 are floating, taken at your discretion subject to client scheduling and line manager approval.
- Private medical insurance (single cover).
- Group life & income protection insurance.
- Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme after 3 months employment.
- Access to over 1,000 perks and discounts via an employee discount portal.
- Dedicated development time, tools and funding to support personal and professional development.
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