Consulting Analyst - Ogilvy

Consulting Analyst (Behavioural Science)

Business area: Consulting (Behavioural Science)

Team: Ogilvy Consulting

Location: London Sea Containers House with flexible working policy

Contract type: Fixed Term Contract

Ogilvys Vision

Our vision is to inspire brands and people to impact the world to create big ideas that make significant contributions to the planet society and to our clients bottom lines. We believe that in todays world this is the best way for our clients to achieve sustainable growth. We achieve this by breaking down the barriers that restrict talent and ideas and we call this Borderless Creativity.

Which is why our teams work fluidly across five capabilities: Advertising Consulting Experience PR and Influence and Health. This allows us not only to operate but to innovate at the intersection of capabilities and talent. We believe impact and magic lies at this intersection. Ogilvy scales this by seamlessly connecting and accessing the deep cultural expertise of 132 offices in 83 countries.

Our vision: We inspire brands and people to impact the world

What we do: We innovate and operate at the intersection of people and capabilities

How we do it: Borderless creativity

About this role:

Ogilvy Consulting is the strategy innovation and business growth arm of The Ogilvy Group. An enterprisewide 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 worlds most interesting and important challenges with the worlds 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 Europes 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. Our clients include Great British Rail Nestl The CocaCola Company the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Odeon Lloyds Banking Group Sainsburys Jaguar Land Rover and many more. You can read more about our work in our Annual publications: confidential

As the curators of the worlds largest festival of behavioural science and creativity now in its 13th year we are at the forefront of the everevolving landscape of Behavioural Science in the industry: confidential

A bit about you:

Its an exciting time to be joining Ogilvy Consulting. Were growing and were hiring Consulting Analysts.

Our Consulting Analysts have onetothree years of experience in consulting or clientside 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 Consultings key areas from Business Transformation Brand Transformation to Marketing Transformation as well as all of the behavioural science led projects.

Ogilvy Consulting is different from other consultancies. We are nestled in the heart of a worldleading creative agency and differentiate ourselves from traditional consultancies partly by bridging strategy and execution. Were 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.
• Will be capable of interpreting research from a range of quantitative and qualitative sources and techniques (academic literature ethnographic and complex data sets).
• Will be a confident and engaging presenter capable of translating academic insights into a broader business context.
• Will be capable of establishing sound client relationships and critically challenging if required.
• Will 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
• Support 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. Were most concerned with how youve used and applied what youve studied rather than the specific discipline itself.
• 13 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.
• 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 multitask especially in highpressure situations
• Strong work ethic with superior attention to detail
• Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office particularly in Excel and PowerPoint Keynote a plus

If this sounds like the right role for you wed love to hear from you.