Senior Consultant

M+C Saatchi is building the agency model of the future. At the heart of this transformation is CEP — our global engine that unites Consulting, Experience, and Performance into one culturally powered growth platform. 

We’re looking for a Senior Consultant to work in our Consulting team with experience and passion for insight-led brand, business and growth strategy. As a Senior Consultant, you will play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, high-value work for clients across Consulting. The role is for someone who can confidently contribute to a range of brand insight and strategy projects and has experience and passion for qualitative research and moderation. 

This role will report into a Director and is a full-time role is based in our Dayton, OH or New York, NY offices on a hybrid working basis (typically, 3 days a week in the office).

About M+C Saatchi Consulting

We are a global brand, strategy and design consultancy with offices in the US, UK, UAE, Australia and Singapore. We build enduring brands that move at the speed of culture and shape what’s next.

We work across verticals and have an amazing list of clients including, PepsiCo, McDonald’s, Toyota and the NFL to name a few.

We’re committed to an ethos of excellence – championing, challenging and supporting one another to stretch and grow. No egos here, simply a diverse group of brilliant, creative people working together every day to create real impact for the world’s biggest brands.

Our New York office is steps from Manhattan’s Madison Square Park. We have a collaborative open-plan space full of natural light, free drinks and snacks, and Team Tuesdays where we all get together for lunch.

Our Dayton office is located in a southern residential suburb with ease of access to major highways. Our cozy office offers us a collaborative working space and weekly lunch with the team!

About the Role

The Senior Consultant role sits within our Brand & Experience Strategy Consulting team and stretches across a breadth of brand/marketing strategy projects (customer strategy, innovation, positioning, portfolio strategy, brand experience strategy & design, commercial growth), qualitative and quantitative research and strategic insight work.

As a Senior Consultant you’ll be a key contributor to project, taking a lead role in managing and facilitating research, developing strategic recommendations and working with junior and senior team members to create project deliverables. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

·       Manage and deliver a range of brand insight, strategy and innovation projects with the support of Consultants and Directors in the team 

·       Play a key role in leading qualitative insight phases of projects, including framing methodologies, writing discussion guides, moderating interviews, focus groups and workshops and analyzing findings

·       Identify insights from multiple sources e.g. qualitative research, quantitative data, trends, secondary data etc. to inform strategic recommendations

·       Project management, including costing, fieldwork management and client management

·       Write and present clear and inspiring debriefs and recommendations (with team support)

·       Communicate clearly with clients, building relationships across key accounts  

·       Contribute to proposal writing and support new business initiatives

·       Work across teams & geographies to deliver projects as required.

About You 

This role is a fantastic opportunity to be part of an ambitious business where the opportunities are endless.

We’re looking for someone with a stellar mix of relevant experience and skills. Ideally, the successful candidate will have the following experiences and strengths:

• 4+ years’ experience working within a strategic insight agency or strategic brand and innovation consultancies

• A deep passion for using (qualitative) research and data to tackle complex insight, strategy, and innovation challenges

• Strong analytical skills – ability to analyze problems from multiple perspectives and generate insights from a range of data

• Skilled in developing inspiring strategic narratives from rigorous insight analysis, with experience of writing and structuring clear and inspiring presentations

• Top notch organizational skil