Consulting Director

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Department: Ogilvy Consulting

Location: London

Contract type: 12-Month FTC

Full Time/Part time: 28-35 hours

Reporting into: Consulting Principal

About Ogilvy:

Our vision is to inspire brands and people to impact the world. To create big ideas that make a significant contribution to the planet, society, and the bottom line. We believe in today's world this is the best way for our clients to achieve sustainable growth. We achieve this by breaking down the barriers that restrict talent and ideas.

Which is why our teams work fluidly across 5 capabilities: Advertising, Consulting, Experience, PR & Influencer, and Health. This allows us to not only operate but innovate at the intersection of capabilities and talent. We believe impact and magic lies at this intersection. Ogilvy scales this by seamlessly connecting and accessing the deep cultural expertise of 132 offices in 83 countries.

The result is multifaceted ideas for our clients that drive impact and are born from the intersection of platform x culture x technology.

We call this Borderless Creativity.

Ogilvy was ranked the number one UK agency at D&AD and was the only UK agency to win a Glass Lions at Cannes. Ogilvy was also nominated network of the year in Cannes Lions, Campaign, Effie Awards EMEA, London International Awards, The One Show and WARC Rankings.

In 2022, Ogilvy was the most creatively awarded agency globally - including the most awarded agency at the Clio Awards, DMA Awards, Influencer Marketing Awards, London International Awards and The One Show.

Ogilvy UK's PR practice won large agency of the year at the PR Week awards. And our Consulting practice was in the Forbes 2022 list of best management consultancy firms.

Ogilvy Consulting:

Ogilvy Consulting is the Business Transformation, Brand Strategy and Innovation consultancy within the Ogilvy Group. We help clients including Nestlé, Facebook, HSBC and LEGO answer tough questions about how to grow through business transformation, brand strategy and innovation platforms. We are now in our seventh year in the UK and EMEA and have just been named a Financial Times UK leading Management Consultancy for the sixth consecutive year.

Our Consulting Directors bring unique blends of creative thinking, strategic depth, and analytical rigour. They're broad thinkers with specialisms that help clients drive business and customer growth through successful set up and activation of Business Transformation programmes. With hands-on experience in Marketing Transformation, Change Management and Business Design, they are growth advisors to business leaders and are just as strong in researching and framing solutions as they are in presenting them.

The Business Transformation practice knows that as companies strive to adapt to fast-changing market conditions and take on ambitious growth and value goals, many find elements of their current organisations (propositions, capabilities, structures, processes, platforms, governance) are not optimised for future-facing success. Moreover, there are many companies finding that their current organisations are not optimised to deliver against their current objectives. We work with and inside businesses to help prioritise and design future-fit Target Operating Models, and develop incremental roadmaps to help them achieve it, while building resilience in the short term. We design out silos, complexity, and old-guard culture, while working with clients to design new structures, including the necessary governance, cultural change management, and/or employee experience that revitalises the company to drive impact.

Ogilvy Consulting is different from other consultancies. We are nestled in the heart of a large world-leading creative agency and pride ourselves on bridging strategy and execution. We're also organised differently, with a flat hierarchy designed to provide opportunities for big contributions by team members of all levels and fantastic exposure to clients and their businesses. Aside from Business Transformation, we also have a practice dedicated to Brand & Innovation, Sustainability, and the largest Behavioural Science group in any UK agency or consultancy.

The Role:

As a Consulting Director, Business Transformation, here's what you can expect:

Indicative Responsibilities:

• Leads multiple, large scale project engagements and client relationships
• Applies the right methodologies with an agile mindset, taking ownership of client deliverables and timelines
• Leadership in strategic new business pitches and initiatives
• Works with other Ogilvy Businesses to identify, scope and deliver engagements that 'bring more of Ogilvy to the table'
• Manages client relationships and projects strategically, commercially, and operationally
• Defines the appropriate strategic frameworks for solution development
• Suggests new information sources and techniques to junior members of the team
• Guides, reviews, and adjusts the tone of presentations and client communications in accordance with a deep understanding and knowledge of the client
• Reframes strategic problems to lead clients to better outcomes
• Conducts key stakeholder interviews, skillfully moderates workshops and client meetings
• Suggests new business opportunities
• Keeps abreast of innovations in your area(s) of expertise, actively contributing to the knowledge base
• Acting as a role model; you are regularly sought out after for views by peers and the wider team
• Contributing to a positive, diverse working environment that fosters-high quality output and coaching others on the value of collaborative working

Skills and Attributes:

• At least 6 years of strategy consulting experience with a leading firm, with a Business Transformation focus
• A developed specialism in Business Transformation, particularly in Marketing Transformation, Change Management, Employee Experience or Organisation Design
• Challenging conventional views and presenting ideas persuasively to gain buy-in
• Able to draw critical human and cultural insights from data and observation
• Able to translate strategy and strategic thinking executable solutions
• Strong business acumen and critical thinking skills
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal

Ogilvy Consulting has adopted a hybrid working approach, with minimum of three days in the Sea Containers House offices per week for full time employees. Travel is sometimes expected as part of any engagement, though less time is spent on client premises than at traditional consulting firms.

We are a deeply passionate group who find consulting challenging and rewarding in equal measures. We are looking to support the team with talent who are as ambitious as they are rigorous and innovative - someone who is open to seizing the opportunities our fast-moving growth environment offers. If this sounds like you, please get in touch.

How we help you Thrive:

• 25 days annual leave + 1 Volunteer Day
• Bupa Healthcare
• Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave
• We have a Flexible Working Model with core working hours: 10am - 4pm
• A 1.5:1 Matching Pension Structure
• Wellbeing and Health: Up to £25.00 per month towards physical or online exercise class membership, Unmind membership, LifeWorks tool and annual eye tests and development budgets and Wellbeing incentives and activities throughout the year
• Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work Scheme
• Life Assurance

At Ogilvy, our people are at the heart of what we do: a creative agency that sparks game-changing ideas across culture and business through collaboration, integrity, and a celebration of self-expression.

We believe in building powerful teams with purpose. This means hiring and nurturing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, abilities, sexual orientation, and gender identities - and we relentlessly curate transformative initiatives that make our commitment to fairness, and equity a reality.

Our ultimate mission is to leave a positive impact on the world, creating a better future for all, while supporting and uplifting the global communities we serve. This is central to our mantra of Borderless Creativity.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.