At IGD, we’re proud to be a Great Place to Work, where our people are empowered to grow, inspired to lead and ready to make a difference. At the heart of that experience is how we attract, welcome, and support new colleagues to join us.
That’s where you come in.
We’re looking for a Head of Insight & Foresight Consulting who will drive revenue, profitability and build a world class team of consultants.
What you’ll do
Delivery and client leadership
Accountable for the quality, commercial value and profitability of every Insights & Foresight consulting engagement.
- Lead IGD’s largest and most complex engagements, especially where briefs are ambiguous or senior stakeholders are involved
- Lead senior client meetings and workshops with a clear point of view, challenging where evidence supports it
- Set the standard for project structure, thinking and recommendations that are commercial, practical and useful
- Review work early, spot issues before clients do and step in when projects or relationships need unblocking
- Own scope, resourcing and profitability, ensuring the practice sells what it can deliver
Business development
Owns the Insights & Foresight consulting pipeline and revenue number, working with the Director of Consulting, new business and client success.
- Generate opportunities by understanding client challenges and spotting where IGD can help
- Turn conversations into projects by shaping the approach, bringing in expertise and writing strong proposals
- Own proposals,
scope and pricing, including £50k+ bids - Keep the pipeline moving and build upsell opportunities into delivered engagements
- Help new business and client success teams sell consulting clearly and confidently across IGD
Team and practice
Leads the Insights & Foresight consulting team and builds its commercial and consulting capability.
- Lead and develop the team, improving utilisation, performance, commercial confidence and client impact
- Provide accurate resourcing, forecast and project profitability inputs to the Director of Consulting's practice review
- Turn recurring client needs into clear, repeatable propositions with a buyer, price and business case
- Connect retail knowledge, insight, data, learning and expertise around client problems
What we’re looking for
You’ll be client-facing, commercial and curious, with strong consulting judgement. You’ll know how to ask the right questions, build credibility and bring the right expertise together around a client problem.
Essential
- Proven success selling and closing consulting or advisory work, including shaping and pricing proposals
- Experience leading senior consulting engagements in or around UK retail, FMCG or foodservice
- Experience managing consultants and raising team standards
- Operational grip on live engagements: scoping, resourcing and project profitability
- Comfortable leading senior workshops and challenging clients with a point of view
Strongly preferred
- Experience creating, pricing, launching and repeatedly selling a proposition
- Experience working across a matrix organisation to bring insight, data and expertise together
- Credibility with retail category, commercial or supply chain leaders
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Head of Insight and Foresight Consulting in Watford employer: IGD group
At IGD, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer that champions personal and professional growth. Our hybrid working model, combined with a market-leading benefits package including a generous pension and medical insurance, ensures a healthy work-life balance while empowering our employees to thrive. We foster a collaborative and inclusive culture where diverse talents are valued, making IGD a rewarding place to build a meaningful career in the learning and development sector.
