Rare

Our client is one of the most respected names in strategic brand consultancy. They are renowned for their depth of thinking and their ability to solve tough marketing problems, though a combination of strategic rigour and creative flair. Clients love them and are extremely loyal – just try poaching one and you’ll see how much they value their advice.

Several new business gains, as well as an ongoing demand from existing clients means they need to recruit half a dozen consultants at a variety of levels.

They work across 5 broad areas; namely branding, including positioning and brand architecture, strategy, innovation, insight and marketing capability training. They are often described as having the structure and discipline of a management consultancy combined with the creativity of an advertising agency.

Whilst they have people with specialist skills, they encourage a ‘broadband’ approach – in other words consultants need to be willing and able to tackle a wide variety of projects.

The key characteristics they look for in their consultancy team include; constant curiosity, constructively challenging, the ability to deal with ambiguity, you’ll need to be flexible and fast on your feet, as well as really smart in the sense of having the ability to look further through brick walls than most! If you are brand loving it will help, with the ability to build strong client relationships

55% of their business is international and although originally their business focused on fmcg, they now have a strong presence in telcos and financial.

All in all a great place to develop your strategic maketing consultancy skills.