Consulting Analyst

Business area: Consulting (Behavioural Science)

Team: Ogilvy Consulting

Location: London, Sea Containers House, with flexible working policy

Full Time/Part Time: Full Time

Contract type: Permanent

Reporting Into: Consulting Director

 

Ogilvy’s Vision

Ogilvy UK has been creating iconic ideas that deliver impact at scale for clients ever since David Ogilvy founded the company in 1948. Ogilvy UK specialises in bringing together brand advertising, customer experience marketing, PR, influence and consulting, all fuelled by Behavioural Science. Our world-class award-winning creative campaigns deliver solutions for clients including Sainsbury’s, Argos, , Mondelēz International, Unilever, TK Maxx and Pernod Ricard.  

 

In 2023, Ogilvy UK celebrated their 75th anniversary and was the most awarded agency in Europe. Ogilvy is home to the largest influencer marketing practice globally, and hosts the world’s biggest festival of behavioural science and creativity, Nudgestock – now in its 12th year. 

 

About this role:

Ogilvy Consulting is the strategy, innovation, and business growth arm of The Ogilvy Group. An enterprise-wide offer, we provide advisory services across Business Transformation, Marketing Transformation and Brand Transformation. We are a global network and bring agile and diverse teams of analysts, strategists, and consultants together at the intersection of brand, growth, innovation, and transformation. We also work closely with teams and businesses across Ogilvy including Advertising, Public Relations & Influence, Experience, and Health.

Within our Behavioural Science specialism, we research and apply the latest thinking in cognitive psychology, social psychology and behavioural economics – bringing together behavioural science and creativity to solve some of the world's most interesting and important challenges with the world's most influential organisations. We believe in the power of thinking counterintuitively, daring to be trivial, that the opposite of a good idea can be another good idea, and the many gospels preached by the founder of our Behavioural Science practice Rory Sutherland.

Whether tasked with improving the security of Europe's busiest airports, changing how people interact with the most popular social media or leading sustainability projects across the globe, we create effective interventions, communications and experiences for private, public and third sector clients.  

We work across all sectors and categories including healthcare, technology, financial services, manufacturing, automotive, retail. You can read more about our work in our Annual publications: https://linktr.ee/ogilvybesci

As the curators of the world’s largest festival of behavioural science and creativity, now in its 13^th year, we are at the forefront of the ever-evolving landscape of Behavioural Science in the industry: https://nudgestock.com/

 

A bit about you:

It’s an exciting time to be joining Ogilvy Consulting. We’re growing and we’re hiring Consulting Analysts.

Our Consulting Analysts have one-to-three years of experience in consulting or client-side strategy roles and have earned relevant degrees. They bring unique blends of creative thinking, strategic depth, and analytical skills, but most of all, they have decided that while consulting is the path they want to pursue, they want to do it in a place that brings business and brand strategy together with creativity and executability.

As a Consulting Analyst with a Behavioural Science specialism, you will have a detailed knowledge of, and passion for, behavioural science. You will have strong credentials (academic and/or work experience) in cognitive psychology, social psychology and/or the behavioural sciences, combined with the proven ability to practically apply this knowledge to find innovative ways of solving problems.

Our Behavioural Science specialism will have strong exposure across all of Consulting’s key areas from Business Transformation, Brand Transformation, to Marketing Transformation – as well as all of the behavioural science led projects. As such, broader experience and interest in business, brand and marketing strategy is also beneficial.

Ogilvy Consulting is different from other consultancies. We are nestled in the heart of a world-leading creative agency and differentiate ourselves from traditional consultancies partly by 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.

As a successful Consulting Analyst (Behavioural Science), you:

• Will have a detailed and fluent knowledge of behavioural science and key concepts and theories.
• Will have an appreciation for business, brand and marketing strategy
• Will be capable of interpreting research from a range of quantitative and qualitative sources and techniques (academic literature, ethnographic and complex data sets).
• Will be a confident and engaging presenter capable of translating academic insights into a broader business context.
• Will be capable of establishing sound client relationships and critically challenging if required.
• Will be a champion of creative ideas and creative approaches to research.

 

Responsibilities:

Research & insight development:

• Performing desktop research, developing academic literature reviews and analysing industry and competitor trends
• Conducting competitor analyses that drive unique insights
• Designing, conducting and analyzing qualitative and quantitative research (e.g. interviews, surveys, ethnographies, focus groups)

Project delivery:

• Taking ownership of client deliverables and presentations with a strong visual clarity and strategic rigor
• Developing and participating in client strategy and ideation workshops
• Support in the development of business strategies and solutions
• Inputting into the creative development of ideas as well as creative and production briefs
• Supporting with all aspects of project management
• Maintaining the Ogilvy Consulting standard of excellence in intelligence and imagination

Business Development:

• Participating in growth conversations with existing and prospective clients
• Supporting with new business proposals and pitches
• Contributing to thought leadership and events (e.g. The Annual and Nudgestock)

 

Experience:

• An undergraduate degree is a minimum requirement and a Masters or beyond is certainly beneficial. Subjects may include (but are not limited to) psychology, biology, humanities/social sciences and economics. We’re most concerned with how you’ve used and applied what you’ve studied, rather than the specific discipline itself.
• 1-3 years of experience in a consultancy, client strategy position or equivalent strategic role in professional services.

 

Skills and Attributes: 

• A detailed knowledge of behaviour change principles, heuristics and biases and fundamentals of psychology and behavioural economics.
• An appreciation for business, brand and marketing strategy
• Qualitative and quantitative research skills (including literature reviews, survey development, statistical analysis, etc..)
• Able to draw critical human and cultural insights from data and observation
• Strong business acumen and critical thinking skills
• Exemplary interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to take initiative and to work independently and within a team
• Excellent organization and time management skills with the ability to multi-task, especially in high-pressure situations
• Strong work ethic with superior attention to detail
• Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly in Excel and PowerPoint, Keynote a plus

Benefits 

• 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

If this sounds like the right role for you, we’d love to hear from you.

 

Our ambition is to attract the very best diverse talent to Ogilvy, and to be the employer of choice in the UK. We want everyone to feel welcome when they join us, and once they’re here, for them to want to stay with us, grow their career, and to feel they belong with us.

We are an equal opportunity employer and we’re committed to creating an inclusive, welcoming environment for everyone who wants to work at Ogilvy. For us, diversity, equity and inclusion is integrated into everything that we do. We believe that for creativity to flourish, everything about how we work must have diversity at its core. Your race, colour, ethnic, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, have no bearing on our hiring decisions, but we encourage everyone to feel free to express their true selves in an environment we are consistently striving to make as inclusive as possible.

We aim to facilitate an accessible and positive application experience for all candidates. If you require any adjustments from us to support you through the process or expect to require any adjustments to working conditions to be able to best perform in the role, please let us know. We are happy to consider all reasonable adjustments.

If you live with a disability and you would like to take advantage of our offer of a guaranteed interview under the Disability Confident Scheme, please ensure you fill out our voluntary Equal Opportunities Questionnaire when applying.