Consulting Analyst

Department: Consulting

Location: London

Contract type: Fixed Term Contract - 12 Month

Full Time/Part time: Full Time

Reporting into: Consulting Director

About Ogilvy 

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 Ogilvy Consulting 

Ogilvy Consulting is a Marketing Transformation, Growth and Innovation Consultancy nestled at the heart of the world-leading Ogilvy creative group. We tackle complex and rewarding challenges for some of the world’s most loved businesses and brands, as well as some fast-growing scale ups, and we’re proud to have been named as one of the FT’s UK leading management consultancies for the seventh consecutive year. 

Ogilvy Consulting believes in the power of brands and people to transform businesses, drive growth and create financial and societal value. Moving beyond traditional methodologies, we seek to build breakthrough brands, businesses and marketing approaches that live and grow in the modern world, reflecting current cultural narratives, leveraging growth insights, and operating in a digitally led way with humans and businesses.  

It’s an exciting time to be joining Ogilvy Consulting. We’re growing and we’re looking for a Consulting Analyst to join a team of consultants drawn from a diverse range of experiences, skillsets and passions. Consulting Analysts tend to have one to three years of experience in consulting or client-side strategy roles, or have recently earned a relevant Masters degree. They are self-starters and bring a curiosity and passion to everything they do, as well as a unique blend of creative thinking, strategic depth, and analytical skills. Most of all, they have decided that while consulting is a path they want to pursue, they want to do it in a place that brings business, marketing and brand transformation together with creativity and execution.  

 About the Role 

The Consulting Analyst role begins as a generalist, working across diverse projects in Marketing Transformation, Brand & Marketing Strategy, Business Transformation, Sustainability and Behavioural Science. Over your time as a Consulting Analyst, you will develop foundational consulting skills through project delivery and exposure to client teams, and gain a range of experience to enable you to begin thinking about where you will specialise as you evolve and advance through your career. Our new team member will work across our capabilities, projects and clients, from Mondelez, Nestle and Unilever to EY, F1 and HSBC.  

Key responsibilities: 

• Conducting research, analysing industry and competitor trends; capturing key insights and developing insightful hypotheses to frame problems and identify creative solutions through a combination of: 

• Conducting comprehensive desktop research, including category, competitor and trends analyses 

• Designing, conducting and analysing quantitative and qualitative market research  

• Participating in data gathering interviews and capturing the key points.  

• Performing quantitative analyses, such as market sizing, competitor benchmarking, and impact assessment 

• Engaging with and learning to apply AI tools, contributing to the development of agents on the WPP Open AI platform 

• Supporting in the development of business and brand growth strategies and solutions  

• Taking ownership of client deliverables and presentations with a strong visual clarity and strategic rigour  

• Developing the flow, content and participating in client workshops  

• Participating in growth conversations, and contributing to and managing new business proposals and pitches with existing and prospective clients  

• Contributing to thought leadership 

• Representing and maintaining the Ogilvy Consulting standard of excellence through a combination of ‘intelligence and imagination’ 

• Actively contributing to the unique culture of Ogilvy Consulting and monthly team meetings, and encouraging collaboration across Ogilvy and WPP  

 

Skills and Attributes:   

• 1-3 years of experience in a consultancy, client strategy position or equivalent strategic role in professional services specialising in brand or business transformation, psychology or behavioural science 

• Proficient with Excel (incl. pivot tables), with a strong grasp of and comfort with data and demonstrated ability to perform robust quantitative analysis from current role or education. This may include experience in areas such as market sizing, competitor benchmarking, impact assessment, and/or analysis using datasets such as TGI or GWI.  

• Experience with analytical techniques such as descriptive and exploratory analysis, simple statistical methods (e.g., regression), and proficiency with Power BI would be valuable but is not essential. 

• A fascination with understanding people and working with them internally and externally to solve problems creatively 

• Adept at framing problems, developing solution hypotheses, and identifying creative paths to growth  

• Able to draw critical human and cultural insights from data and observation  

• Strong business, marketing and brand acumen and critical thinking skills  

• Exemplary interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal  

• A pragmatic approach, looking for solutions, simplifying complex issues and aiming for practical outcomes  

• Ability to take initiative and to work independently and within a team  

• Excellent organisation 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 

• A strong eagerness to learn and use AI-powered tools and platforms 

• A curiosity and energy that allows you to adopt a can-do attitude to every challenge and initiative 

 

At Ogilvy Consulting we want to make sure that you’re set up to grow and develop in your role and enjoy some of the best times of your working career. Our learning and development team are on hand to provide training for you, to help you excel in every aspect of your role. So, if you think you may not have experience in some aspects of this position, don’t worry, and apply away. We’re here to help you grow and nurture your skills.     

 

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  

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.