The opportunity
Collingwood is evolving. As we build our professional services delivery model, we're creating a new kind of analyst role — one designed from the ground up for the AI-first era.
This isn't a job where you spend your days on manual data pulls and formatting slides. You'll deploy and manage AI tools to do the heavy lifting, freeing you to focus on what matters: synthesising insight, shaping client thinking, and helping founder-led businesses grow faster.
You'll work directly with our Associate Advisers and Advisory Directors on active client engagements — getting real exposure to strategic advisory work from day one.
What You’ll Do
- Research and analysis: Use AI tools to gather, organise and synthesise data across industries and competitive landscapes. Turn raw information into clear, actionable insight that shapes our strategic recommendations.
- Deliverable support: Support the development of client-facing materials — slides, reports, models — using AI to generate strong first drafts and ensuring every output meets Collingwood's quality bar.
- Engagement coordination: Keep complex, multi-stream client engagements running smoothly. Manage diaries, track tasks, and maintain project data across tools including HubSpot and Method Grid.
- AI mastery: Stay ahead of generative AI and automation trends. Identify new ways to increase the speed and quality of delivery — and bring those ideas to the team.
About You
You have 2–4 years of experience in a professional setting — consulting, media, or a high-growth startup would be ideal. More than experience, we're looking for someone who is genuinely excited by what AI can do, and who has already started using it to solve real problems.
You should have hands‑on experience using LLMs (Claude, ChatGPT) to produce real client‑ready outputs, not just for research or brainstorming, along with practical experience building or configuring automated workflows (Zapier, Make, n8n). You're analytically minded, comfortable in Excel or Google Sheets, and able to communicate clearly in writing and in person. You understand how to take complex information and make it simple, and you know how to take an AI‑generated first draft and turn it into something genuinely client‑ready.
You’ll thrive here if you're a natural team player, quick to learn, and take real pride in the quality of your work.
What We Offer
The chance to shape how a specialist advisory firm works in the AI era — not observe it from the outside. Genuine responsibility from day one, direct access to senior advisers, and a team that takes your development seriously.
The role starts as a 12-month fixed‑term contract. Junior Associates who perform well during that time may be offered a permanent contract at the end of the 12 months, depending on business needs.
Essential
- 2–4 years of experience in a professional setting, ideally in a client‑facing advisory or consulting capacity. Experience in media or a high‑growth startup environment is also valued, particularly where it involved direct client or stakeholder‑facing work.
- A "digital native" with a demonstrable passion for generative AI, prompt engineering, and workflow automation.
- AI proficiency: Hands‑on experience building or deploying AI workflows (e.g. using Claude or ChatGPT to produce client‑ready outputs, not just research) and automation tools (Zapier, Make, n8n) to solve practical problems.
- Analytical mindset: Ability to perform quantitative analysis using Excel/Google Sheets and interpret data to find the "so what."
- Tech literacy: Highly proficient with productivity software (Microsoft Office, Trello, Miro) and presentation tools (PowerPoint, Canva).
- Clear communication: Excellent written and oral communication, able to synthesise complex information into simple, clear updates.
Attributes
- Collaborative spirit: A "team player" mindset, ready to support senior colleagues and manage multiple tasks concurrently in a fast‑paced environment.
- Integrity: Able to operate with professionalism and handle sensitive client data with total discretion.
Right to work
Applicants for this role must be able to provide evidence of a legal right to work in the UK. Collingwood is unable to provide any visa sponsorship arrangements for this role, please do not apply if you will require this.
Equal opportunities
Collingwood is committed to building an inclusive team where people from all backgrounds can do their best work. We actively encourage applications from people of every age, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, nationality, religion or belief, sexual orientation and social background, and from disabled and neurodivergent people, parents and carers. We assess every application on skills and potential, and we value the different career routes that people take into advisory work.
If you don’t meet every requirement but think you’d thrive here, please apply.
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Junior Associate (12-month fixed term contract) employer: Collingwood
Collingwood is an exceptional employer that fosters a dynamic work culture where innovation and collaboration thrive. With a strong emphasis on employee growth, we offer tailored development opportunities and a supportive environment that encourages strategic thinking and leadership. Located in a vibrant area, our team enjoys not only competitive benefits but also the chance to engage with diverse clients, making every day both meaningful and rewarding.
