Our client is a specialist provider of strategic advice and insight to some of the world’s leading brands and organisations

Their services include commercial strategy consultancy, trends and cultural insights, qualitative and quantitative market research, and data science. The ability to blend different disciplines – each with highly skilled, specialist practitioners – makes us different from other strategy houses, or other research agencies.

They focus on Media, Tech & Telco, Advertising and Entertainment (sport, gaming, arts). Their clients span some of the world’s biggest firms (e.g. Google, Amazon), its most adored brands (e.g. Spotify, Pinterest, Disney, HBO, the Premier League, PokerStars), and cutting edge tech brands (e.g. Freewheel, Roku, Amdocs, Acxiom).

They are a quality driven boutique agency, and has won many awards, including: Market Research Society Best Agency, the MediaTel (now Adwanted)’s Grand Prix, Agency of the Year. They are experiencing very significant growth, are never short of work and have proven extremely resilient over recent challenging times.

ABOUT THE ROLE

They are looking for an experienced strategy consultant who can manage a wide range of strategy work across our media and media-tech clients and play a key role in the design and delivery of their subscription service, which provides a commentary and forecast on the UK’s broadcast and streaming media markets.

Your work will range from classic strategy (e.g. growth work, market entry) to specialist media work (e.g. sports rights valuations) and complicated research work (e.g. market sizing and forecasting, researching advertiser, customer, and partner perceptions, sentiment and requirements).

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What skills and experience are they looking for?

You must have the practitioner, sales, and leader/manager skills required to surprise and delight some of the world’s most exciting and valuable businesses:

·         Projects– overseeing the delivery of exceptional work:

-       Leading the end-to-end delivery of some of our most challenging projects

-       Leading the design of complex analytical frameworks and financial models, and analysis of data, to provide insight into client challenges, markets, customers and competitors

-       Conducting large-scale research and interview programmes,

-       Designing and delivering client briefings, reports, workshops and presentations

-       Ensuring clear story-telling and commercially aware / strategic recommendations

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·         Managing delivery of the subscription service

-       Managing the biannual market forecasting and commentary

-       Presenting findings to the Executive teams at their clients

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·         Making a significant contribution to new business / sales:

-       Building strong client relationships

-       Overseeing and informing the design of big / challenging proposals

-       Leading on one of their key accounts

-       Helping to further grow their profile

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·         Shaping the growth and development of the Strategy team:

-       Line managing and mentoring members of the team

-       Identifying new areas of opportunity

-       Introducing new tools and techniques, packaging different approaches / specialisms (e.g. frameworks, models).

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What type of work does our Strategy team already do?

All projects are designed bespoke to the needs of their client’s brief, following consultation with them about their needs. They use a range of traditional and cutting edge methods – whatever is best suited to the job.

Examples of the team’s exciting work include:

·         Forecasting growth in the SVOD markets over the next ten years, for one of the world’s largest SVOD players

·         A global rights strategy for one of the world’s top sports leagues

·         Examining opportunities in new markets

·         A market entry strategy for one of the world’s largest public cloud platforms

·         A customer journey study for the world’s largest marketing data and data solutions provider, to help them understand how to structure their sales and marketing

·         Thought leadership studies

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What else is a consideration for this role?

·         Strategy consulting experience at a top strategy house or corporate strategy team)

·         A passion for and understanding of media, technology, entertainment and advertising

·         The ability to work effectively and flexibly, both in a team and solo to deliver projects on-time and on-budget

·         Excellent communication skills and an ability to make and support a clear argument

·         The enthusiasm and ability to build strong working relationships with our clients

·         An entrepreneurial outlook and the ambition, dedication and talent to be the very best at what you do

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What are the benefits?

- Competitive salary adnd bonus

-       Employer pension 5%

-       Private health insurance

-       Life insurance

-       Income protection

-       Extra days holiday for length of service

-       Birthday off as extra holiday.