Consulting Partner, London

About Ogilvy

Ogilvy has been creating impact for brands through iconic, culture-changing, value-driving ideas since the company was founded by David Ogilvy 75 years ago. It builds on that rich legacy through Borderless Creativity – innovating at the intersections of its advertising, public relations, relationship design, consulting, and health capabilities with experts collaborating seamlessly across over 120 offices in nearly 90 countries. Ogilvy currently ranks as the #1 global agency network for creative excellence and effectiveness by WARC, signifying its ability to deliver creative solutions that drive unreasonable impact for clients and communities. Ogilvy is a WPP company (NYSE: WPP). For more information, visit Ogilvy.com, and follow us on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and Facebook.

Department: Ogilvy Consulting, Brand & Sustainability

Location: London

Contract type: 9 Month fixed term contract

Full Time/Part time: Full Time

Reporting into: Consulting Principal

About Ogilvy & Ogilvy Consulting:

Ogilvy Consulting is a leading UK Management Consultancy (Financial Times, 2018-2025). We bring together intelligence and imagination to help our clients’ grow their business, with key services in Business, Brand and Marketing Transformation. We have communities of expertise in Social & Environmental Impact, Behavioural Science, Design Thinking and more.

Our business transformation offering seeks to discover new areas of growth for our clients and their brands through business vision, growth strategy, product and service innovation and org design. Our marketing transformation offering helps clients design a continuous engine for growth by developing go-to-market strategy, employee engagement, and culture and change management programmes. While our brand transformation offering exists to develop future-proofed and captivating brands, revitalising existing brands and designing new ones from scratch through positioning, brand architecture, performance measurement and innovation. Moving beyond traditional approaches, we create breakthrough solutions that help businesses and brands live and grow in the modern world, reflecting and cultural narratives, leveraging behavioural and growth insights, and operating in a digitally led way. We don’t believe this can be done without consideration of the context they operate within and the social and environmental impact they can make.

We are part of Ogilvy UK, an organisation that has been creating iconic ideas to deliver impact at scale for our clients ever since David Ogilvy founded the company in 1948. Ogilvy UK brings together brand advertising, customer experience marketing, PR, influence and consulting, fuelled by Behavioural Science. Our award-winning strategy and creative work are critical to business growth for clients including Nestlé, Molson Coors (owner of Madrí), Argos, Mondelēz International, Unilever, TK Maxx and Pernod Ricard. We’re proud of having celebrated our 75th anniversary in 2023, alongside becoming the most awarded agency in Europe. At the frontier of marketing, Ogilvy is home to the largest influencer marketing practice globally and hosts the world’s biggest festival of behavioural science and creativity, Nudgestock.

The Role:

We are searching for an exceptional individual who is highly skilled and passionate to join our team as a Consulting Partner, Brand & Sustainability.

The Consulting Partner will bring a unique blend of creative thinking, strategic depth, and analytical rigour to our clients and their brands, and the social and environmental impact they need to have in the world. The ideal candidate will possess a mix of brand, marketing and sustainability strategy skills, ideally with broader ESG and social impact experience. They will demonstrate proven expertise in delivering brand transformations, from unearthing insights in consumer research, to creating distinctive positioning statements, brand houses and messaging frameworks. They might also have experience in brand architecture, visual identity, creative activation, and broader marketing innovation.

Within sustainability, they should demonstrate a track record of integrating ESG strategies and sustainability initiatives into go-to-market strategies, identifying the material environmental and social challenges for brands to lead on, and verifying their potential sustainability claims for propositions and communications. Behaviour change is a key component of Ogilvy Consulting’s approach, and alongside colleagues in our behavioural science community of expertise, they will create strategies with real-world and environmental impact on a diverse range of sustainability challenges. They will be a sustainability, brand and business advisor to clients, and an expert in social and environmental impact within the team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leads multiple, large scale project engagements and client relationships, managing projects strategically, commercially, and operationally
• Takes on revenue targets, sourcing opportunities from current clients, the wider Ogilvy and parent company WPP’s client base and directly from the market
• Applies the right approaches and methodologies with an agile mindset, taking ownership of client deliverables and timelines
• Reframes strategic problems to lead clients to better outcomes
• Demonstrates compelling leadership in strategic new business pitches and initiatives
• Works with other Ogilvy businesses to identify, scope and deliver engagements that bring an integrated team to a client problem, with social and environmental impact as a key component
• Defines the appropriate strategic frameworks for solution development and guides the final deliverables in accordance with a deep understanding and knowledge of the client
• Keeps abreast of new ideas, policy and innovations in their area of expertise, contributing to the Ogilvy Consulting knowledge base and upskilling colleagues wherever possible
• Suggests new approaches, information sources and techniques to junior members of the team, increasing their exposure and knowledge of sustainability as their project and/or line manager
• Acts as a role model; regularly being sought out after for views by peers and the wider team
• Contributes to a positive, diverse working environment that fosters-high quality output and coaching others to ensure collaborative working

Skills and Attributes:

• At least 15 years of brand and sustainability strategy consulting experience with a consultancy, innovation agency, research agency, client strategy or research position, or equivalent role
• Experience integrating ESG and sustainability strategies and initiatives into brand marketing and comms, from go-to-market strategies to behaviour change initiatives
• Understanding of green claims guidance and environmental regulation relevant to client operations
• Formal sustainability training, either academic or through a provider such as the Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership
• Experience working with FMCG brands, for example in innovation programmes, brand architecture, portfolio strategy, design strategy and creative excellence
• A creative and innovative approach to modern marketing and how to advise and inspire clients, challenging conventional views and presenting ideas persuasively to gain buy-in
• A balance of analytical skills and creative thinking, being able to draw critical human and cultural insights from data and observation and apply it to business, brand and sustainability challenges
• An ability to develop, translate and communicate strategic thinking into executable solutions
• An ability to develop breakthrough brand strategies through a deep understanding of clients and their business
• Strong business acumen and critical thinking skills
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal
• Proven ability to manage stakeholders at the most senior level
• A curiosity and energy that runs through everything you turn your hand to and motivates others around you – including a willingness to get hands on with new platforms and technologies like AI

More about Ogilvy Consulting:

Ogilvy Consulting believes in the power of brands to transform businesses, change behaviour, drive growth and create financial value. We are different from other consultancies, being nestled in the heart of a world-leading creative network we 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.

How we help you Thrive:

• 25 days annual leave + 1 Volunteer Day
• Bupa Healthcare
• Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave
• Flexible Working Model with core working hours: 10am – 4pm and 3-4 days in the office
• 5:1 Matching Pension Structure
• Wellbeing and Health: Unmind membership, LifeWorks tool, annual eye tests, development budgets, Wellbeing incentives and activities throughout the year, and up to £25.00 per month towards physical or online exercise class membership
• 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.

Equal Opportunity Employer. Ogilvy considers candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. Applicants from the United States can learn more about their rights by viewing the federal “Know Your Rights” and Pay Transparency posters by clicking here.

If you need any assistance seeking a job opportunity, or if you need reasonable accommodation with the application process, please contact us at accommodations@ogilvy.com. Please note that this contact is only for candidates who are requesting accommodation. Emails for other purposes, including application status requests, will not receive a response.

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