Consulting Analyst

About Ogilvy

Ogilvy has been creating impact for brands through iconic, culture-changing, value-driving ideas since the company was founded by David Ogilvy 75 years ago. It builds on that rich legacy through Borderless Creativity – innovating at the intersections of its advertising, public relations, relationship design, consulting, and health capabilities with experts collaborating seamlessly across over 120 offices in nearly 90 countries. Ogilvy currently ranks as the #1 global agency network for creative excellence and effectiveness by WARC, signifying its ability to deliver creative solutions that drive unreasonable impact for clients and communities.

Business area: Consulting (Behavioural Science)

Team: Ogilvy Consulting

Location: London, Sea Containers House, with flexible working policy

Full Time/Part Time: Full Time

Contract type: Permanent

Reporting Into: Consulting Director

Ogilvy’s Vision

Ogilvy UK has been creating iconic ideas that deliver impact at scale for clients ever since David Ogilvy founded the company in 1948. Ogilvy UK specialises in bringing together brand advertising, customer experience marketing, PR, influence and consulting, all fuelled by Behavioural Science. Our world-class award-winning creative campaigns deliver solutions for clients including Sainsbury’s, Argos, Mondelēz International, Unilever, TK Maxx and Pernod Ricard.

In 2023, Ogilvy UK celebrated their 75th anniversary and was the most awarded agency in Europe. Ogilvy is home to the largest influencer marketing practice globally, and hosts the world’s biggest festival of behavioural science and creativity, Nudgestock – now in its 12th year.

About This Role

Ogilvy Consulting is the strategy, innovation, and business growth arm of The Ogilvy Group. An enterprise-wide offer, we provide advisory services across Business Transformation, Marketing Transformation and Brand Transformation. We are a global network and bring agile and diverse teams of analysts, strategists, and consultants together at the intersection of brand, growth, innovation, and transformation. We also work closely with teams and businesses across Ogilvy including Advertising, Public Relations & Influence, Experience, and Health.

Within our Behavioural Science specialism, we research and apply the latest thinking in cognitive psychology, social psychology and behavioural economics – bringing together behavioural science and creativity to solve some of the world’s most interesting and important challenges with the world’s most influential organisations. We believe in the power of thinking counterintuitively, daring to be trivial, that the opposite of a good idea can be another good idea, and the many gospels preached by the founder of our Behavioural Science practice Rory Sutherland.

Whether tasked with improving the security of Europe’s busiest airports, changing how people interact with the most popular social media or leading sustainability projects across the globe, we create effective interventions, communications and experiences for private, public and third sector clients. We work across all sectors and categories including healthcare, technology, financial services, manufacturing, automotive, retail.

Bit About You

It’s an exciting time to be joining Ogilvy Consulting. We’re growing and we’re hiring Consulting Analysts. Our Consulting Analysts have one-to-three years of experience in consulting or client-side strategy roles and have earned relevant degrees. They bring unique blends of creative thinking, strategic depth, and analytical skills, but most of all, they have decided that while consulting is the path they want to pursue, they want to do it in a place that brings business and brand strategy together with creativity and executability.

As a Consulting Analyst with a Behavioural Science specialism, you will have a detailed knowledge of, and passion for, behavioural science. You will have strong credentials (academic and/or work experience) in cognitive psychology, social psychology and/or the behavioural sciences, combined with the proven ability to practically apply this knowledge to find innovative ways of solving problems.

Our Behavioural Science specialism will have strong exposure across all of Consulting’s key areas from Business Transformation, Brand Transformation, to Marketing Transformation – as well as all of the behavioural science led projects. As such, broader experience and interest in business, brand and marketing strategy is also beneficial.

Ogilvy Consulting is different from other consultancies. We are nestled in the heart of a world-leading creative agency and differentiate ourselves from traditional consultancies partly by bridging strategy and execution. We’re also organised differently, with a flat hierarchy designed to provide opportunities for big contributions by team members of all levels.

As a Successful Consulting Analyst (Behavioural Science), You Will:

• Have a detailed and fluent knowledge of behavioural science and key concepts and theories.
• Have an appreciation for business, brand and marketing strategy.
• Be capable of interpreting research from a range of quantitative and qualitative sources and techniques (academic literature, ethnographic and complex data sets).
• Be a confident and engaging presenter capable of translating academic insights into a broader business context.
• Be capable of establishing sound client relationships and critically challenging if required.
• Be a champion of creative ideas and creative approaches to research.

Responsibilities

• Research & insight development: Performing desktop research, developing academic literature reviews and analysing industry and competitor trends. Conducting competitor analyses that drive unique insights. Designing, conducting and analyzing qualitative and quantitative research (e.g. interviews, surveys, ethnographies, focus groups).
• Project Delivery: Taking ownership of client deliverables and presentations with a strong visual clarity and strategic rigor. Developing and participating in client strategy and ideation workshops. Supporting in the development of business strategies and solutions. Inputting into the creative development of ideas as well as creative and production briefs. Supporting with all aspects of project management. Maintaining the Ogilvy Consulting standard of excellence in intelligence and imagination.
• Business Development: Participating in growth conversations with existing and prospective clients. Supporting with new business proposals and pitches. Contributing to thought leadership and events (e.g. The Annual and Nudgestock).

Experience

An undergraduate degree is a minimum requirement and a Masters or beyond is certainly beneficial. Subjects may include (but are not limited to) psychology, biology, humanities/social sciences and economics. We’re most concerned with how you’ve used and applied what you’ve studied, rather than the specific discipline itself. 1-3 years of experience in a consultancy, client strategy position or equivalent strategic role in professional services.

Skills And Attributes

• A detailed knowledge of behaviour change principles, heuristics and biases and fundamentals of psychology and behavioural economics.
• An appreciation for business, brand and marketing strategy.
• Qualitative and quantitative research skills (including literature reviews, survey development, statistical analysis, etc.).
• Able to draw critical human and cultural insights from data and observation.
• Strong business acumen and critical thinking skills.
• Exemplary interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to take initiative and to work independently and within a team.
• Excellent organization and time management skills with the ability to multi-task, especially in high-pressure situations.
• Strong work ethic with superior attention to detail.
• Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly in Excel and PowerPoint, Keynote a plus.

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave + 1 Volunteer Day.
• Bupa Healthcare.
• Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave.
• We have a Flexible Working Model with core working hours: 10am – 4pm.
• A 1.5:1 Matching Pension Structure.
• Wellbeing and Health: Up to £25.00 per month towards physical or online exercise class membership, Unmind membership, LifeWorks tool and annual eye tests and development budgets and Wellbeing incentives and activities throughout the year.
• Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Life Assurance.

If this sounds like the right role for you, we’d love to hear from you. At Ogilvy, our people are at the heart of what we do: a creative agency that sparks game-changing ideas across culture and business through collaboration, integrity, and a celebration of self-expression. We believe in building powerful teams with purpose - and we relentlessly curate transformative initiatives that make our commitment to fairness, and equity a reality. Our ultimate mission is to leave a positive impact on the world, creating a better future for all, while supporting and uplifting the global communities we serve. This is central to our mantra of Borderless Creativity.

Ogilvy is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

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