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Senior Consultant, Strategy & Research

London, England, United Kingdom

The Team

Teneo’s Strategy team helps organisations to devise evidence-based strategies that build trust, protect reputation, and drive growth.  Our work not only shapes communications and campaigns, but also informs business decisions, optimising the operations and positioning of some of the largest brands and businesses in the world.  Our approach is audience-led and evidence-based.  As such, we tend to draw heavily on qualitative and quantitative research and statistical data analysis where possible to drive the development of our projects.

We help organisations to:

  • determine where audiences stand on client-critical issues and what drives their perceptions.
  • define the shape of key audience segments, gaining a deeper understanding of where they are, what they like, and how to reach them.
  • identify and unpack the reputational positioning required to achieve client objectives: their ‘winning territory’.
  • devise strategies to help clients reach their winning territory by focusing on the arguments that influence both perception and behaviour.

We are looking for an experienced mixed-methods researcher who has an interest in developing a career in strategy. A Senior Consultant (SC) in the Strategy team plays a pivotal role in managing the day-to-day delivery of client projects. The successful candidate will have the following skills and experience: 

  • General project management & delivery
  • Experience in end-to-end management of large-scale mixed-methods research projects.
  • Ability to understand the challenges our clients face and make relevant strategic recommendations based on in-depth analyses of audience research.
  • Experience in creating compelling and concise presentations of complex data for senior internal colleagues or external clients that you deliver in conjunction with your colleagues.
  • Ability to develop a research proposal or plan in response to questions asked by team leaders and other senior colleagues.
  • Ability to be the day-to-day liaison with clients, understanding how their priorities may change, setting clear expectations, reporting back on progress and key deliverables, and ensuring that team leaders are aware of any potential issues.
  • Ability to manage and support junior colleagues, ensuring they are thoroughly briefed on incoming projects and understand what is expected.

The role

A Senior Consultant in Teneo’s Strategy team is responsible for providing the highest quality of service to our clients. They play a key role in delivering quality work, overseeing more junior team members and ensuring agreed timelines on client projects are met.

Senior Consultants also play a critical role in mentoring and helping to upskill junior colleagues, and work into and learn from our Associate Directors, Managing Directors and senior leadership.

Teams are built around individual projects and vary based on project scope and clients’ needs.

We are looking for exceptional candidates with varied experience and wide-ranging perspectives. Like us, they’ll be intellectually curious, creative, great team players and eager to learn.

Specific skills & qualifications

  • A minimum of 5-7 years’ experience in a mixed-methods research agency or similar
  • Ability to manage and moderate qualitative research, including focus groups, triads and depth interviews
  • Confidence in managing all aspects of the quantitative research process, including sample specs, survey writing, data specs and reading data tables
  • Ability to analyse primary quantitative data using Excel, draw out the most interesting insights, and weave them into logical and compelling stories with clear strategic imperatives
  • Having a theoretical understanding of statistical analyses techniques, such as significance testing, regression, segmentation and conjoint, and when to use them
  • Academic training in the measurement of public attitudes and behaviours, in disciplines such as psychology, political science, marketing, statistics or economics considered a plus
  • Excellent proficiency in Microsoft Office and an acute attention to detail

What we can offer 

New joiners are supported by an induction programmes, and continuous development is a key focus of life at Teneo - learning and knowledge sharing are at the heart of this. We have an environment and culture that is focused on supporting your development and career progression. We support this with a dedicated Learning Team who provide a range of learning opportunities and personal development support.  

Our face-to-face learning is supported by some 100 modules of e-learning available on our internal knowledge management system.  

Given our client base you’ll be working on career-defining work that is exciting, rewarding and one where you can make a real impact to high profile projects. 

Company Benefits  

As well as this we offer a whole host of benefits and reward including; 

  • Competitive salary (depending on experience) 
  • 28 days holiday 
  • Discretionary bonus 
  • Annual salary review 
  • Pension (with company contribution: 5% of annual salary) 
  • Enhanced maternity and paternity leave (depending on length of service) and shared parental leave 
  • Private medical insurance 
  • Group Income protection 
  • Life assurance 
  • Cycle to work schemes 
  • Season ticket loans 
  • Regular social, cultural and charitable activities 
  • Flexible working with office laptop and phone provided 

Key Responsibilities

  • Support the management of projects, including timeline, resource and budgets; with a forward view to anticipate needs and potential issues
  • Find and apply the right research methodologies in response to a client challenge, where applicable and required, conduct immersion interviews, moderate focus groups and draft discussion guides
  • Play a key role in analysing and interpreting research (qual and quant), and drive the process from distilling research into insight
  • Play a leading role in workshops / presentations, presenting back insights and helping to facilitate client discussions
  • Quickly become a subject matter expert for our clients
  • Build a strong network of effective relationships internally and externally
  • Stay well informed and share knowledge with teams and clients
  • Seek opportunities for organic growth and support on writing business proposals

Skills and experience

  • A minimum of 3-5 years’ experience in a mixed-methods research agency or similar
  • Ability to analyse primary quantitative data using Excel, draw out the most interesting insights, and weave them into logical and compelling stories with clear strategic imperatives
  • Ability to moderate qualitative research, including focus groups, triads and depth interviews
  • Confidence in supporting all aspects of the quantitative research process, including sample specs, survey writing, data specs and reading data tables
  • Having a theoretical understanding of statistical analyses techniques, such as significance testing, regression, segmentation and conjoint, and when to use them
  • Academic training in the measurement of public attitudes and behaviours, in disciplines such as psychology, political science, marketing, statistics or economics considered a plus
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Excellent presentation skills
  • Excellent proficiency in Microsoft Office
  • Ability to act as a role model to junior colleagues
  • Strong project management skills
  • Appetite to build their own skills and knowledge
  • Enthusiasm about research and insight
  • A positive, flexible and ambitious team player

What we can offer 

New joiners are supported by an induction programmes, and continuous development is a key focus of life at Teneo - learning and knowledge sharing are at the heart of this. We have an environment and culture that is focused on supporting your development and career progression. We support this with a dedicated Learning Team who provide a range of learning opportunities and personal development support.  

Our face-to-face learning is supported by some 100 modules of e-learning available on our internal knowledge management system.  

Given our client base you’ll be working on career-defining work that is exciting, rewarding and one where you can make a real impact to high profile projects. 

Company Benefits  

As well as this we offer a whole host of benefits and reward including; 

  • Competitive salary (depending on experience) 
  • 28 days holiday 
  • Discretionary bonus 
  • Annual salary review 
  • Pension (with company contribution: 5% of annual salary) 
  • Enhanced maternity and paternity leave (depending on length of service) and shared parental leave 
  • Private medical insurance 
  • Group Income protection 
  • Life assurance 
  • Cycle to work schemes 
  • Season ticket loans 
  • Regular social, cultural and charitable activities 
  • Flexible working with office laptop and phone provided 

About Teneo

Teneo is the global CEO advisory firm. We partner with our clients globally to do great things for a better future.

Drawing upon our global team and expansive network of senior advisors, we provide advisory services across our five business segments on a stand-alone or fully integrated basis to help our clients solve complex business challenges. Our clients include a significant number of the Fortune 100 and FTSE 100, as well as other corporations, financial institutions, and organizations.

Our full range of advisory services includes strategic communications, investor relations, financial transactions and restructuring, management consulting, physical and cyber risk, organizational design, board and executive search, geopolitics and government affairs, corporate governance, ESG and DE&I.

The firm has more than 1,500 employees located in 40+ offices around the world.

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