Lippincott - Consultant, Strategy in London

As a Consultant, you will apply strategic, analytical and creative thinking to solve challenging brand issues for clients on a daily basis. You will consult senior-level clients across industries, throughout the world and on a range of strategic brand topics. On any given day, you could be revitalizing a leading retailer's positioning, innovating a new AI digital assistant, or crafting an airline’s customer experience. We’ll challenge you to think and work in new ways as you develop your skills and begin to grow your career. Along the way, you’ll be developed and mentored by a committed team of managers.

This is your opportunity to collaborate with a close-knit and passionate group in developing and building some of the world’s leading brands. The team-oriented environment allows for involvement in key decision making and exposure to c-level client executives and senior Lippincott leaders from across the business.

On an average day, you will:

• Apply creative thinking and problem-solving to complex brand and innovation challenges
• Integrate design thinking and creative concept development into diverse assignments
• Generate quantitative and qualitative insights, and weave them together into compelling stories
• Perform brand experience audits across multiple touchpoints to distill insights that shape the future direction of a brand
• Translate brand strategy recommendations into cultural, operational and experiential innovations
• Research customer needs through interviews, focus groups, day-in-the-life studies and more

We look for you to:

• Hold a bachelor's degree and have demonstrated a record of strong academic achievement
• Have a minimum of 2 years excelling in a field such as strategy consulting, corporate strategy, brand strategy, brand management, innovation or strategic planning
• Think critically, logically and creatively
• Have an interest and aptitude for understanding how businesses function, create profit and connect with target customers
• Apply your writing and presenting skills to craft impactful stories
• Have a dedicated work ethic and passion for brand and innovation
• Conduct research and distill findings effectively and efficiently
• Have strong organizational and task management skills
• Work effectively and professionally in a team setting including directly with clients
• Build compelling presentations in PowerPoint and analyse client data in Excel

Lippincott is a global brand, marketing and experience consultancy committed to helping companies address their most complex brand challenges. Identifying fresh opportunities and realizing brand possibilities is our specialty. Since 1943, Lippincott has produced lasting, transformative impact for clients across a range of sectors. As part of the Oliver Wyman group, Lippincott brings high-caliber industry and operational insights into our work, blending a management consultancy’s strategic rigor with a proven legacy of design and creativity.

We promote a culture of collaboration and performance through our three core values: We demand better, reach higher, and expect more of ourselves and our colleagues. We demonstrate gratitude, offer support, and embrace optimism every day. We celebrate debate, discussion, disagreement, and feedback, with an open mind to new ways of thinking and doing. We act with passion, intention, and goodwill while building on and elevating everyone’s contributions and sharing in our collective success. In our pursuit to produce meaningful change, we want our people to feel heard, respected and valued through our words and actions – goals we can only achieve with a sustained commitment to inclusion and belonging.

We seek the best and brightest ideas from a variety of backgrounds and experiences because we know that’s what it takes to continuously push the boundaries, solve our clients’ most complex challenges, and foster an inspiring culture of rigorous creativity. We celebrate and leverage our differences and our commonalities so everyone feels safe, supported and encouraged to be wide open, to say “yes, and!” and to demand better of ourselves and one another. We aspire to be positive role models for inclusion at an individual level, corporate level, and societal level. Lippincott is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions at Lippincott are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications without regard to race, national origin, age, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran or disability status or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in locations where we operate. We are committed to promoting a workplace that we are all proud to be a part of.

Lippincott is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age background, civil partnership status, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments in accordance with applicable law to any candidate with a disability to allow them to fully participate in the recruitment process. If you have a disability that may require reasonable adjustments, please contact us at reasonableaccommodations@marsh.com.

Marsh is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.