Senior Consultant

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 Molson Coors, Valeo Foods UK, 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.

The Role: Ogilvy Consulting is a brand‑led growth consultancy, nestled at the heart of the world‑leading Ogilvy creative group. We tackle complex and rewarding challenges for some of the world’s most loved businesses and brands, as well as fast‑growing scale‑ups, and we’re proud to have been named as one of the FT’s UK leading management consultancies for the seventh consecutive year. It’s an exciting time to be joining Ogilvy Consulting. As we grow, we’re looking for a Senior Consultant to join our Marketing Transformation practice.

Our Senior Consultants bring a unique blend of creative thinking, strategic depth and analytical rigour. They are broad thinkers and practical problem‑solvers, emerging in a specialist area of marketing transformation while remaining grounded in strong core consulting skills. They help clients understand how marketing organisations, capabilities, ways of working and operating models need to evolve to unlock growth, improve effectiveness and respond to a digitally led, AI‑enabled world. This role requires experience in supporting and delivering marketing transformation work. We work across areas such as organisational design, target operating model definition, change management, capability building, process mapping, employee experience and AI advisory. Senior Consultants play a critical role in translating this thinking into practical workstreams, high‑quality deliverables and clear recommendations that clients can act on.

Key Responsibilities:

• Owning discrete workstreams within wider marketing transformation projects, working independently with appropriate oversight and directing junior team members where required.
• Supporting the design and delivery of transformation work across operating model design, organisational design, change management, capability building, process mapping, employee experience and AI‑enabled marketing transformation.
• Collaborating with colleagues across the Consulting team and the wider Ogilvy and WPP network to solve high‑profile challenges for our clients.
• Applying relevant consulting methodologies to structure analysis, frame hypotheses, build recommendations and create high‑quality client deliverables.
• Building trusted working relationships with mid‑level client teams, confidently facilitating meetings, leading interviews, capturing key insights and helping maintain momentum across project activities.
• Participating in strategic new business pitches and initiatives, including preparing sections of proposals and identifying add‑on opportunities within existing client relationships.
• Keeping abreast of developments in marketing transformation, modern operating models, organisational change, AI and marketing effectiveness, actively contributing to the team’s knowledge base and thought leadership.
• Acting as a role model for your grade, supporting Analysts and Consultants, helping onboard new colleagues and contributing to a positive, inclusive and high‑performing project environment.

Skills, Attributes and Attitude:

• At least 5 years of experience in consulting, client‑side strategy, marketing transformation, organisational change or a related field.
• Emerging specialist expertise in one or more areas of marketing transformation such as operating model design, organisational design, change management, capability building, employee experience, process design or AI‑enabled marketing transformation.
• Strong problem‑solving skills, with the ability to synthesise quantitative and qualitative inputs, identify key trends and develop clear, actionable recommendations.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a high‑performing team.
• Understanding of, and interest in, behavioural science and the principles of behaviour change.
• Able to prepare and lead client interviews, workshops and meetings, using active listening to draw out insight, align stakeholders and move teams toward practical outcomes.
• Comfort challenging conventional views and presenting ideas persuasively to gain buy‑in from clients and colleagues.
• A strong understanding of modern marketing organisations and how brands, capabilities, technology, data, process and culture come together to drive growth and effectiveness.
• Curiosity about AI and its impact on marketing transformation, with the ability to identify opportunities to use AI tools and methodologies to improve insight, efficiency and project workflows.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the energy, pragmatism and flexibility to thrive in a fast‑moving consulting environment.

Ogilvy Consulting is different from other consultancies: we bridge strategy and execution, rigour and creativity. We are nestled at the heart of Ogilvy and the broader WPP network, which means we can bring together consulting, creative, data, technology, media and experience expertise to help clients move from strategy to implementation. We’re also organised differently, with a flat hierarchy designed to provide opportunities for meaningful contributions by team members at all levels. Alongside Marketing Transformation, we work across brand strategy, innovation, sustainability and behavioural science, and all team members have the opportunity to contribute to integrated projects across the Ogilvy Consulting team.

Ogilvy Consulting has adopted a flexible working approach, with the ability to work from home and three days per week expected in the office with the team. We are a deeply passionate group who enjoy the challenges and rewards of Consulting work in equal measures. We are looking to scale the team with talent who are as ambitious as they are rigorous and innovative – people who see themselves advancing according to merit and open to seizing the opportunities our fast‑moving growth environment offers.

How we help you Thrive:

• 25 days annual leave + 1 Volunteer Day
• Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave
• Flexible Working Model with core working hours: 10am – 4pm
• 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

Our ambition is to attract the very best diverse talent to Ogilvy, and to be the employer of choice in the UK. We want everyone to feel welcome when they join us, and once they’re here, for them to want to stay with us, grow their career, and to feel they belong with us. We are an equal opportunity employer and we’re committed to creating an inclusive, welcoming environment for everyone who wants to work at Ogilvy. For us, diversity, equity and inclusion is integrated into everything that we do. We believe that for creativity to flourish, everything about how we work must have diversity at its core.

Your race, colour, ethnic, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, have no bearing on our hiring decisions, but we encourage everyone to feel free to express their true selves in an environment we are consistently striving to make as inclusive as possible. We aim to facilitate an accessible and positive application experience for all candidates. If you require any adjustments from us to support you through the process or expect to require any adjustments to working conditions to be able to best perform in the role, please let us know. We are happy to consider all reasonable adjustments.

If you live with a disability and you would like to take advantage of our offer of a guaranteed interview under the Disability Confident Scheme, please ensure you fill out our voluntary Equal Opportunities Questionnaire when applying.