Inside the Company

The Beyond Collective are an award winning agency, picking up numerous global and local awards over the last few years, including: D&AD pencils, Clio Awards, British Arrows Awards, Creative Circles Awards, Campaign Media Week Awards, Clear Channels Outdoor Media Awards and Thinkbox TV Planning Awards. Their clients include itsu, Alzheimer’s Research UK, Accolade Wines, Premier Foods, Shelter, Dulux, FindMyPast, loveholidays and Interflora. The team is made up of diverse talents bringing together best in class media and creative agency thinking under one roof. Founded in 2014 and still fully independent, the agency office is located in Bermondsey, London. They were proud to pick up the prestigious award as a Sunday Times Best Places to Work in the UK.

Mission and Vision

The Beyond Collective helps clients break down the silos which can exist not only in team structure, but in strategy and execution – providing one bespoke integrated team and driving the right energy into helping brands Go Beyond. They work with brands big and small. From dusty icons looking to evolve, to challengers looking to punch up in their category, to scale up innovators looking to supercharge their growth potential. The USP across all is blending the best media and creative minds to drive better outcomes and create the brands of the future. From music videos, to 3D billboards to hijacking passion audience passion points – they believe in helping clients think beyond traditional media channels, challenging the status quo to allow them to cut through, pierce culture and get their brand an unfair share of voice.

'Pump Up the Jam', Jam Shed

Culture and Benefits

The Beyond Collective are committed to creating a diverse environment, with equality and inclusion sitting at the heart of their culture. Their internal D&I Committee ‘Group for Inspiring Voices’ ensures that their people are educated on the issues of diversity and inclusion, and are armed with resources they need to make decisions, take opportunities, be creative and advance in the workplace. As part of the agency’s IPA membership, all employees undertake regular personal development accreditation, including undertaking the IPA Diversity & Inclusion course, to ensure that everyone within the agency can contribute to a more diverse and inclusive workplace. They offer a whole range of benefits including ‘Cycle to Work’ scheme, annual travel / season ticket interest free loan scheme, ‘Child Care vouchers’ scheme, membership of a contributory pension plan, your birthday as an additional day of annual leave and flexible Christmas break arrangements. In addition to offering Summer Hours during the months of July and August, where the whole agency finishes at 3pm every Friday. They provide a variety of mental health & wellbeing support, such as access to Companion, a wellbeing training and support app and Medicash, a healthcare cash back plan.

Opportunities

Working as one Collective, junior talent have exposure across the agency's full capability, spanning creative, media, production, strategy - therefore allowing opportunities for growth and development across all departments.

Junior talent get hands on and work across a range of projects and pitches.

The Beyond Collective are part of an Independent Global Network, Worldwide Partners, who have a mentorship scheme, allowing junior talent to join the scheme and connect with the global network, developing their skills and learning.