The Role

Optima Partners is a forward-thinking professional services firm on an exciting growth trajectory. As we expand from 50 to 200 employees over the next two years, we are strengthening our team and are now looking for Digital Asset Management (DAM) and Content Supply Chain specialists. In these roles, you'll play a pivotal part in helping companies revolutionise their enterprise asset management capabilities and content supply chains. You'll be at the forefront of guiding organisations through the intricacies of content and asset management, focusing on critical areas such as workflow optimisation, DAM, content operations, and content engineering.

Your expertise will be instrumental in streamlining processes, ensuring seamless collaboration, and maximising the value of content assets throughout their lifecycle. You will help clients navigate their DAM implementations and infrastructures, architect scalable DAM systems, design efficient content workflows, and spearhead the integration of emerging technologies like Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI). These innovative tools leverage AI and machine learning to automate content creation, curation, and distribution, empowering organizations to enhance content velocity and quality while reducing manual effort and costs.

Whether it's architecting a scalable DAM system, designing efficient asset workflows, or integrating AI-driven content generation tools, you'll be the driving force behind transformative change. Furthermore, you'll serve as a trusted advisor to business leaders, offering strategic insights and recommendations to unlock untapped opportunities in the content supply chain. 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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills & Experience

• Experience in the DAM Industry: Deep understanding of the DAM landscape, trends, and best practices. Knowledge of the future direction of asset management and content operations as key enablers for customer engagement and personalisation strategies.

• Content Strategy & Operations: Experience in content lifecycle management, including strategy, operations, and engineering. Ability to challenge and support content transformations in complex organisations.

• Technology Expertise: Experience evaluating, solutioning, configuring, and implementing DAM and content management platforms such as Adobe Assets, Bynder, Aprimo, Opentext, Workfront, and Monday.com.

• Business Case Development: Proven ability to build business cases to support the introduction of DAM capabilities, conducting needs assessments, gap analyses, vendor evaluations, and RFP processes.

• Regulatory Knowledge: Experience working in regulated industries with knowledge of compliance and security requirements for DAM solutions.

• Analytical & Problem-Solving Skills: Sharp analytical skills with a passion for problem-solving. Ability to translate business challenges into solution design options.

• Leadership & Communication: Confident, engaging, and natural communicator with experience working in high-pressure environments within high-performing teams.

Qualities

• Ability to think and lead autonomously and at pace.

• Big thinker and considered presenter.

• Driven to succeed and build a business together.

• Passion for design, technology, and transformation.

• Collaborative mindset and impact-focused attitude.

The Company

Optima Partners is an advanced data and business consultancy headquartered in Edinburgh, UK. We are practitioner-led and partner with leading consumer brands to drive transformation and catalyze customer-centricity through our expertise in customer strategy, design innovation, and cutting-edge data science and engineering.

We help our clients get closer to their customers, to truly understand them, and deliver exactly the right products, engagement, and experiences across all channels and interactions. We specialize in unlocking latent value within organizations through a three-pronged approach that focuses on identifying and enhancing value for customers, within the customer base, and within the business itself. In doing so, we foster sustainable value, paving the way for consistent business growth.

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, and GSK. We are obsessive about delivering value for our clients and work in a collaborative, engaged, and creative way with our colleagues and clients. We strive to support the transition of knowledge and capability into strategic teams.

In the pharmaceutical sector, we are internationally recognized for our expertise in early-phase drug discovery, genomics, and human genetics. In late 2023, we proudly launched our new division, bioXcelerate AI, which stands at the forefront of revolutionizing life sciences and healthcare research. bioXcelerate AI uses state-of-the-art data science and proprietary algorithms to accelerate the transformation of data into actionable insights, redefining industry standards.

Our 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. You will feel at home in a close-knit team where attitude, collaboration, and impact are key to our success and future growth.