Consultant - Growth Consulting, WPP Open

About Ogilvy   Ogilvy, part of WPP, has been creating impact for brands through iconic, culture-changing, value-driving ideas since the company was founded by David Ogilvy 75 years ago. It builds on that rich legacy through Borderless Creativity – innovating at the intersections of its advertising, public relations, relationship design, consulting, and health capabilities with experts collaborating seamlessly across over 120 offices in nearly 90 countries. Ogilvy currently ranks as the #1 global agency network for creative excellence and effectiveness by WARC, signifying its ability to deliver creative solutions that drive unreasonable impact for clients and communities. Ogilvy is a WPP company (NYSE: WPP). For more information, visit Ogilvy.com, and follow us on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and Facebook.   About WPP WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com. Department: Behavioural Science Location: London Contact type: Permanent Full Time/Part time: Full Time Reporting into: Consulting Director About Ogilvy:  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 (owner of Madrí beer), Valeo Foods UK (owner of Kettle Chips and Rowse Honey), 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. Ogilvy is home to the largest influencer marketing practice globally and hosts the world’s biggest festival of behavioural science and creativity, Nudgestock – now in its 14th year.  The Role: Within our Behavioural Science practice, 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 world's most interesting and important challenges with the world's most influential organisations. We believe in the power of counter-intuitive thinking, daring to be trivial, and the idea that the opposite of a good idea can also be a good idea — principles drawn from the many gospels of our Behavioural Science founder, Rory Sutherland. Whether designing the next generation of healthy snacks, empowering men to call out misogyny, or leading global sustainability initiatives, we create effective interventions, communications, and experiences for clients across the public, private, and third sectors. We work across all sectors and categories including healthcare, technology, financial services, manufacturing, automotive and retail. Our clients include Nestlé, Mondelēz, Google, The Coca-Cola Company, Mayor Of London, Odeon, Sainsburys, Jaguar Land Rover and many more. You can read more about our work in our annual publications: https://www.ogilvy.com/ideas/annual-2024-years-biggest-behavioral-science-case-studies As the curators of the world’s largest festival of behavioural science and creativity, now in its 14th year, we are at the global forefront of the ever-evolving landscape of Behavioural Science in marketing: https://nudgestock.com  A bit about you:  Our Consultants typically have four-to-six years of experience in consulting, behavioural science, or client-side strategy roles and have relevant degrees. They bring unique blends of creative thinking, strategic depth, and analytical skills, but most of all, they have decided that they want to work in a team that brings business and brand strategy together with creativity and executability.  As a Consultant within the Behavioural Science practice, 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 behavioural economics, combined with the proven ability to practically apply this knowledge to find innovative ways of solving problems. You will be hyper curious about people, their behaviours and ultimately why they make the choices that they do. While this role will be based within our Behavioural Science practice, you’ll have exposure across our practices and will work across projects, developing skills in Brand & Marketing Innovation, Business Transformation and Sustainability as well.  As a successful Behavioural Science Consultant, you will:  Have a fluent knowledge of behavioural science and key concepts and theories.  Be capable of interpreting research from a range of quantitative and qualitative sources and techniques (academic literature, ethnographic and complex data sets).  * Be a confident, engaging and inspiring presenter capable of translating academic insights into a broader business context.  * Be capable of building strong external and internal client relationships and offering constructive challenge when required. * Be a champion of creative ideas and creative approaches to research.  * Always seek to help others, create a positive working environment and providing constructive feedback that fosters high quality output.  * Have AI experience and capability, integrated into your workflow. Responsibilities:  Project delivery:  Under the guidance of Directors, Consultants are responsible for driving medium complexity/scale projects and supporting large scale/complexity projects. This includes:  * Leading the delivery of primary and secondary research (e.g. literature reviews, competitor analysis and consumer research) ensuring appropriate detail and scientific rigour curated to the needs of the client.  * Distilling research into strategic and creative opportunities.  * Developing ideation workshops, taking a lead role in workshop facilitation, and developing behavioural interventions.  * Championing creativity, with responsibility for nurturing the creative output of your projects; identifying opportunities from insights and refining the most novel and effective applications of behavioural science.  * Working to delegate project deliverables to Analysts, including reviewing and providing feedback to the quality of all client facing deliverables.  * Managing day-to-day client communications, solidifying the relationship, and leading client meetings.  * Managing project timelines, budgets and setting expectations with both delivery teams and clients.  * Managing relationships with third party suppliers.  * Maintaining the Ogilvy Consulting standard of excellence in consulting, rigour and creativity.  Business Development:  * Proactively participating in growth conversations with existing and prospective clients.  * Drafting new business proposals for Director sign off, including approach, budget scope and project plan.  * Contributing to agency 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. We’re most concerned with how you’ve used and applied what you’ve studied, rather than the specific discipline itself.  * Ideally 4-6 years of experience in a consultancy, client strategy position or equivalent strategic role in professional services.    Skills and Attributes:  * Knowledge of behaviour change principles, heuristics and biases and fundamentals of psychology and behavioural economics.  * Abreast of industry trends and innovations with a good understanding of the broader applications of behavioural science.  * Qualitative and quantitative research skills (including desk research and primary consumer research).  * 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.  * Ability to delegate, provide constructive feedback and manage individuals within a project team.  * Excellent organization and time management skills with the ability to multi-task, especially in high-pressure situations.  * Strong work ethic with superior attention to detail.  * Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly in Excel and PowerPoint.  * Strong use of AI, with some experience of AI automated workflows How we help you Thrive:      * 25 days annual leave + 1 Volunteer Day   * Bupa Healthcare  * Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave  * We have a Flexible Working Model with core working hours: 10am – 4pm  * A 1.5:1 Matching Pension Structure  * 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  At Ogilvy, our people are at the heart of what we do: a creative agency that sparks game-changing ideas across culture and business through collaboration, integrity, and a celebration of self-expression.  We believe in building powerful teams with purpose - and we relentlessly curate transformative initiatives that make our commitment to fairness, and equity a reality.  Our ultimate mission is to leave a positive impact on the world, creating a better future for all, while supporting and uplifting the global communities we serve.  This is central to our mantra of Borderless Creativity. Ogilvy is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers. If you need any assistance seeking a job opportunity, or if you need reasonable accommodation with the application process, please contact us at accommodations@ogilvy.com. Please note that this contact is only for candidates who are requesting accommodation. Emails for other purposes, including application status requests, will not receive a response.

WHO WE ARE WPP Enterprise Solutions designs, builds, and operates the growth systems that competitive businesses rely on. In a world where Al is reshaping how companies drive growth, we lead clients in business transformation and marketing modernization, connecting strategy directly to execution. Our 12,000 experts in engineering and platforms, commerce, consulting, content transformation, CRM, and CX work within a unified global operating unit across 40+ markets. WPP Enterprise Solutions works alongside best-in-class partners including Adobe, AWS, Braze, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Shopify, as well as innovators in AI, to deliver growth solutions tailored to the needs of our clients’ businesses. We’re hiring an AI Solutions Consultant to work alongside our Director and Senior Consultant on our most important client engagements, contributing to pitches, identifying solutions, prototyping demos, and shaping how agentic AI consulting works at scale inside a global marketing agency. The playbook is being written. We’re looking for someone who wants to help write it. WHAT WILL YOUR DAY LOOK LIKE? In this role, your day balances hands-on prototyping and pitch preparation with serving as the go-to technical authority and strategic bridge across multidisciplinary team pods. Between building proof-of-concepts, you will actively spot new AI opportunities within existing accounts and translate client needs into clear, high-impact briefs for the engineering team. * Pitch contribution - Help shape pitch materials end-to-end alongside senior team members: commercial scope, client narrative, and success criteria.   * Opportunity spotting - Notice where agentic AI fits inside current accounts and surface it. No sales target, but you're expected to pay attention and bring ideas forward.   * Technical credibility - Be the person colleagues across disciplines come to with a real question and get a useful answer. Have a point of view and defend it when you're right.   * Hands-on prototyping - Build proof-of-concepts yourself pre-SOW using Claude Code and whatever the current toolset demands. Hand off to engineering once signed and stay close as the technical context-holder.   * Delivery support - Synthesize stakeholder insight, prioritize use cases by business impact, and keep the engineering team building against a clearly understood strategic brief.   * Cross-functional navigation - Bring clarity into project pods of consultants, engineers, designers, and strategists. You don't need the org chart to have influence.  WHO ARE YOU GOING TO WORK WITH? You will work cross functionally across the business with multiple capabilities and also be apart of the agentic lab; a team built of talented engineers, product owners and consultants.  WHAT DO YOU BRING TO THE TABLE?  1–3 years of experience post-graduation. We care more about what you’ve shipped than which logo it shipped under, and we acknowledge that experience can obtained outside of work.  * A point of view on agentic AI and how it’s shaping the future of work.   * You are curious: you prototype to learn and think, you have built things and are hands on with newest generation of AI tools.  * You have the basic toolset in place. You come from either consulting, an in-house transformation team or a high-trajectory start-up role. You are used to high paced environments with multiple stakeholders.  * You have strong communication skills in both verbal and written settings. We expect you are comfortable with contributing to the conversation in rooms full of senior people.  * You can drive your own deliveries under guidance from senior team members and are eager to learn from both individual contributions and team efforts.   * You take pride your professional integrity and challenge in a constructive way.   Nice to have  * Marketing, CRM, customer experience, Martech, or loyalty domain experience  * Experience with Adobe, Salesforce, Braze, or comparable enterprise Martech platforms  * Experience with AI engineering via e.g. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or similar – but we do not expect you to be a software engineer.  * Exposure to senior client workshops as participant, note-taker, or facilitator  A LEADER IN PERSONALIZED CUSTOMER EXPERIENCES VML MAP is a world-leading Centre of Excellence that helps businesses humanize the relationship between the brand and the customer through hyper personalization at scale, marketing automation and CRM. With the brain of a consultancy, the heart of an agency and the power of technology and data, we work with some of the world's most admired brands to help them on their transformation journey to becoming truly customer-centric. Together, we are 1000 + technology specialists, data scientists, strategic thinkers, consultants, operations experts, and creative minds from 55+ nationalities. A GLOBAL NETWORK We are part of the global VML network that encompasses more than 30,000 employees across 150+ offices in 60+ markets, each contributing to a culture that values connection, belonging, and the power of differences.  #LI-EMEA About WPP WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com. WPP (MAP/VML) is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics. 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