Senior Consultant

at  Ogilvy UK

Department: Ogilvy Consulting
Location: London
Contract type: 12-Month FTC
Full Time/Part time: Full Time
Reporting into: Consulting Partner

OGILVY CONSULTING:

Ogilvy Consulting is the Business Transformation, Brand Strategy, and Innovation consultancy within the Ogilvy Group. We help clients including Nestlé, Google, Zurich, and LEGO answer tough questions about how to grow through business transformation, brand strategy and innovation platforms. We are now in our eighth year in the UK and EMEA and have been named a Financial Times UK leading Management Consultancy for the seventh consecutive year.
It’s an exciting time to be joining Ogilvy Consulting. As we grow, we’re looking for a Senior Consultant to join our Brand & Marketing Innovation practice.
Our Brand & Marketing Innovation Senior Consultants bring a unique blend of creative thinking, strategic depth, and analytical rigour. They’re broad thinkers with experience across research and analysis, customer segmentation, opportunity assessment, purpose and positioning, brand architecture and portfolio strategy, brand experience, loyalty, employee branding, and brand-led innovation. They are brand and business thinkers, with the ability to engage our clients and mentor the Consultants and Analysts within the team.
The Brand & Marketing Innovation practice believes in the power of brands to transform businesses, drive growth, and create financial value. We create compelling and captivating brands – revitalising existing brands and designing new ones from the ground up. Moving beyond traditional methodologies, we seek to build breakthrough brands that live and grow in the modern world, reflecting current cultural narratives, leveraging growth insights, and operating in a digitally led way. We cover all aspects of business-to-brand strategy, brand creation, brand innovation, brand transformation, and the marketing strategies to support them.
Ogilvy Consulting is different from other consultancies, and we pride ourselves on bridging strategy and execution, rigour and creativity. We are nestled at the heart of the world-leading creative agency, Ogilvy, and the broader WPP network. We’re also organised differently, with a flat hierarchy designed to provide opportunities for big contributions by team members of all levels. Aside from Brand & Marketing Innovation, we also have practices dedicated to Business Transformation, Sustainability, and Behavioural Science, and all team members can work on integrated projects with colleagues from across the Ogilvy Consulting team.

Skills, Attributes and Attitude:

• At least 5 years of strategy consulting experience with a major consulting, research, or client company, specialising in brand and marketing strategy, brand positioning architecture and/or brand
• Able to develop breakthrough brand strategies, positionings and innovations through a deep understanding of our clients’
• Challenging conventional views and presenting ideas persuasively to gain buy-in.
• Able to draw critical human and cultural insights from data and
• Able to translate strategic thinking to creative and innovative brand and marketing
• A working knowledge of modern marketing principles and understanding of how to build powerful brands in today’s
• Experience and knowledge of portfolio
• Comfort designing research approaches, managing research processes and both analysing and distilling data to build robust, compelling, and actionable recommendations.
• Strong business acumen and critical thinking skills.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Able to work across multiple projects, with good organizational skills, flexibility, and
• A curiosity and energy that runs through everything you turn your hand to and motivates others around you

THE ROLE:

As a Senior Consultant, Brand & Marketing Innovation, here’s what you can expect:

INDICATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Managing the day-to-day project engagement; you will own workstreams and act largely independently on specific project deliverables. You apply the right methodologies and have an agile mindset, taking ownership of client deliverables and
• Actively supporting on the management of client relationships strategically, commercially, and operationally.
• Participation in strategic new business pitches and initiatives, alongside developing growth opportunities across existing clients.
• Ensuring Ogilvy Consulting has an impact in client meetings and
• Participating in all aspects of methodology and work, including analysing quantitative and qualitative research as well as creative thinking and developing strategic recommendations.
• Scoping and managing the financial and budgetary aspects of your client projects.
• Keeping abreast of innovations in your area(s) of expertise, actively contributing to the knowledge base and developing thought leadership.
• Acting as a role model; you are regularly sought out after for views by peers and the wider team and will contribute to development of analysts and consultants within the team.
• Contributing to a positive, diverse working environment that fosters high-quality output and coaching others on the value of collaborative

Skills, Attributes and Attitude:

• At least 5 years of strategy consulting experience with a major consulting, research, or client company, specialising in brand and marketing strategy, brand positioning architecture and/or brand
• Able to develop breakthrough brand strategies, positionings and innovations through a deep understanding of our clients’
• Challenging conventional views and presenting ideas persuasively to gain buy-in.
• Able to draw critical human and cultural insights from data and
• Able to translate strategic thinking to creative and innovative brand and marketing
• A working knowledge of modern marketing principles and understanding of how to build powerful brands in today’s
• Experience and knowledge of portfolio
• Comfort designing research approaches, managing research processes and both analysing and distilling data to build robust, compelling, and actionable recommendations.
• Strong business acumen and critical thinking skills.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Able to work across multiple projects, with good organizational skills, flexibility, and
• A curiosity and energy that runs through everything you turn your hand to and motivates others around you.

We are a deeply passionate group who enjoy the challenges and rewards of Consulting work in equal measures. We are looking to scale the team with talent who are as ambitious as they are rigorous and innovative – people who see themselves advancing according to merit and are open to seizing the opportunities our fast-moving growth environment offers. If this sounds like you, please get in touch.