Consultant (Creative) in London

An exciting opportunity has become available to be part of our fast-growing team and to be a key part of the Creative function within the Client Strategy department. This role provides an outstanding opportunity to join a growing global integrated marketing advisory and will provide an ambitious individual with valuable experience for progression and development.

The Company

mediasense is a global, independent advisor that brings the clarity, connection and confidence modern marketers need to fuel growth. We help marketers eliminate waste and maximize the impact of their most significant investments at scale. Our ambition is to define and own an entirely new category – recognized as the world's most trusted, independent and impactful marketing advisor. We do this by elevating how clients operate, how agencies deliver, how platforms perform, and how all parts of the ecosystem connect. Because progress doesn't happen in isolation, it takes alignment, intelligence, and trust. That's what we enable. That's what we stand for. That's Unified Marketing Intelligence.

mediasense is designed around how we help marketers optimize and transform through best-in-class structure and governance (Organization), partners and platforms (Ecosystem), governance and controls (Assurance), and measurement and effectiveness (Science). We have the proven ability to effectively support large, complex organizations and deliver multiple projects simultaneously. As evidenced through our strong track record with clients, we pride ourselves on the consistent high quality of service delivery and the ability to accelerate transformation and growth.

mediasense has over 200 employees across London, New York, Singapore and New Delhi.

What We Offer

• Hybrid working
• Initial 28 days holiday (before bank holidays) with an accrual of 4 days over first 4 years of service
• Day off for your birthday + 10 days annual leave purchase per year
• Length of service awards
• Work from any location in the world up to 4 weeks per year
• Bonuses: Discretionary company bonus scheme & new business bonus, employee referral bonus
• Pension & Group life insurance
• Private healthcare, enhanced parental, Employee assistance program
• Annual season ticket loan, Cycle to work scheme + Tech & voucher schemes
• Eye test & contribution towards glasses for VDU
• Charity Day plus fund raising events for charity
• Learning & development opportunities
• Frequent events- such as summer, winter & bi-weekly socials
• Free fruit & snacks + building linked benefits such as access to gyms & complementary gifts, classes or discounts

The Role

This role is for a Consultant, based in London. This role will report into the Senior Consultant. The Consultant on the Creative team will help clients navigate rapidly evolving marketing, creative and organisational landscapes by delivering insight driven, transformation-focused consulting. You will apply creative industry experience to solve complex challenges, shape future ready operating models and unlock new ways for brands to grow.

You'll work on high-impact transformation projects with some of the world's most ambitious brands, helping them reimagine how they work, what capabilities they need and how they stay ahead of constant change.

The role itself will involve a range of activities including:

• Client Delivery and Project Ownership

• Support end-to-end delivery of strategic transformation, organisational design, capability and ecosystem projects across global and regional clients
• Own project management fundamentals: managing timelines, tracking actions, coordinating stakeholders and ensuring on-time, high-quality outputs
• Conduct discovery and diagnostic workstreams, including support stakeholder interviews, landscape reviews, capability assessments and best practice benchmarking
• Translate complex client challenges into structured insights, hypotheses, and recommendations for senior stakeholders
• Develop clear, compelling deliverables that enable clients to make confident decisions about future models, roles, processes and partnerships

• Analyse client ecosystems, creative processes, operational structures, technology stacks and workflows to identify opportunities for improvement
• Support the development of business cases, roadmaps and transformation plans grounded in evidence and industry knowledge
• Keep abreast of emerging trends in creativity, production, AI, organisational design and marketing operations to feed this knowledge into project recommendations.

• Work closely with Senior Consultants, Client and Services teams, alongside subject matter specialists to deliver multidisciplinary work
• Represent the client voice internally and help shape the direction of each workstream
• Contribute to thought leadership, case studies and internal frameworks to help evolve our consulting offer
• Identify additional client needs or opportunities during project delivery and flag them to the senior team

The Candidate

This is a role for someone who wants to shape the future of how marketing and creative teams operate. If you're passionate about improving creative effectiveness, designing better ways of working and guiding clients through new and emerging landscapes, this role gives you a front row seat and real influence.

The ideal candidate will have the following:

• Naturally curious, with a desire to understand how things work and how they could work better
• Confident engaging with stakeholders at all levels
• Proactive, solutions-oriented and comfortable working in ambiguity
• Energised by change and motivated by shaping better outcomes for clients
• Experience within the creative, marketing, or content production industry, with a strong understanding of how ideas, people and workflows come together to deliver great work
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills: able to structure challenges, interpret qualitative and quantitative insights and build clear recommendations
• Excellent communication skills enabling you to simplify complexity, craft compelling narratives and present confidently to senior stakeholders
• Proven ability to manage multiple workstreams, stay organised and deliver high-quality outputs at pace
• A collaborative mindset with the confidence to work autonomously, ask smart questions and contribute new thinking
• High level of attention to detail: proofing own and others work to ensure everything clients receive are accurate
• PPT and Excel capability a must

Desired:

• Experience working on global accounts or in distributed teams
• Familiarity with organisational design, capability building or operational transformation
• Understanding of marketing and agency operations
• Ability to facilitate workshops or co‐creation sessions

Every application is reviewed by a human on our team (not AI), so it may take us a bit of time to get through them. Because of the large number of applications we receive, we're not always able to reply to everyone individually especially via LinkedIn messages but we truly appreciate your interest.

Please note that we can only consider candidates who already have the right to work in the UK and do not require, now or in the future, visa sponsorship.