A boutique strategy consultancy, in business for 25+ years, working across 60+ countries. Small by design (around 25 people), which means no armies of analysts and no getting lost in a huge case team. Project teams run 3–4 people, flat structure, and everyone in that room has a real say in the output. Clients are senior: CMOs, Insight Directors, C-suite leaders who’ve come for a straight answer, not a research report.

Expect to be working on 2–3 projects at once, each running a few months, covering things like growth strategy, market entry, brand and portfolio work, and business model innovation. You’ll pull together qualitative and quantitative evidence, build the Excel model and the deck, and land the “so what” in a way a CMO can act on. At Senior Consultant level, you’ll own that end to end: running the client relationship, facilitating the workshop, deciding what the answer actually is. At Consultant level, you’re building toward that, with real client exposure from week one.

You’ve got strategy consulting experience, ideally in growth, market-entry, brand or competitor strategy. You can read a P&L and you know the difference between an interesting insight and a commercial recommendation. You’re just as comfortable with a spreadsheet as you are presenting to a room of senior stakeholders.

One honest note: if your background is purely research or insight, and you haven’t yet had to turn findings into a strategic recommendation someone signed off on, this probably isn’t the right fit yet. If it is, you already know it.

Salary £39,000–£68,000, depending on level and experience. Hybrid working, profit share, private medical from day one, and 30 weeks fully paid parental leave. 

Be honest. Most of your work probably sat in a folder after the final debrief. That’s not a knock on the work, it’s just how consulting usually goes: you deliver, you leave, and the client’s left to figure out the “now what.”

This role exists to fix that gap.

Our client is a fast-growing strategy and insight consultancy, working with some of the world’s biggest brands. They’re deliberately building something rare in this industry: a function whose whole job is making sure the strategic thinking actually lands, not just gets delivered.

You’ll own a brand new function, sitting underneath everything else the business does.

That means:

• Diagnosing where a client’s organisation is stuck, and deciding what to embed first
• Turning strategy and frameworks into tools, dashboards, workshops and coaching people genuinely use
• Building content (films, training, workshops) that makes the work stick, not just documents it
• Working the whole client org, from the leadership team down to the people using the tools daily
• Shaping what “capability” even means for a consultancy in an AI-driven world

You’ve probably worked both sides of this: consultancy or innovation agency, and client-side too. You’ve felt the frustration of handing over great strategic work and watching it stall. You’ve got real opinions on why that happens, and what actually gets people to change how they work.

You might come from a client-side capability or insight team, or from an innovation consultancy. What matters more than the CV line is this: have you actually driven transformation, or just delivered training? If it’s the latter, this probably isn’t your role.