We're looking for an Advisory Consultant (12 Month Fixed Term Contract) to join our team in London as part of our Advisory function.
We are looking for a highly strategic individual to champion the growth of WARC Advisory in the UK and deliver end- to- end client projects to some of the largest brands, media owners and agencies. This is a perfect role for someone with a driven mindset to experiment accompanied by all the benefits of being supported by an established organisation.
Your Role: Utilising your experience in proposal writing, client management, analysis and delivery you will be responsible for coming up with creative solutions and ensuring end deliverables meet client outcomes across a range of marketing effectiveness topics. Projects will be rooted in WARC content expertise and include a range of delivery formats such as presentations, bespoke whitepapers or workshops- with an emphasis on outputs that deliver inspired learning and actionable recommendations.
You will be responsible for leading and developing your assigned client relationships, delivering multiple strategic proposals and projects that exceed client expectations. You will constantly be pushing industry boundaries in your role as a WARC Advisory brand ambassador and bring the strategic expertise to capitalise on Advisory's longer-term growth opportunities.
Key Responsibilities
- Explore clients’ requirements, develop briefs and find innovative solutions to client challenges
- Work closely with commercial teams to help them spot new opportunities to be developed
- Responsibility for maintaining the strategic standards of WARC Advisory output, ensuring clients are given deliverables and solutions that build client relationships
- Ensure projects are being delivered on brief in a relevant, insightful and commercially successful manner
- Deliver confident and inspirational presentations, whitepapers and reports- ensuring WARC Advisory work is seen in the best possible light.
- Nurture client relationships to drive repeat revenue
- Manage, develop and drive revenue growth of WARC Advisory across EMEA.
- Offer new ideas for revenue generation though client solutions (eg: new partnerships or consultants to work with that fit with both the clients’ needs and WARC’s offering)
- Build strong relationships with Account management and content leaders, as well as senior management, that will contribute to the growth and development of WARC Advisory internally and externally.
- You are a connector, working hard to ensure people and projects are not inadvertently siloed or silenced
Your Experience
- Experience of marketing and communications landscape is essential
- Confident presenter and an excellent communicator who displays leadership both to the teams they work with at Ascential and to clients.
- Creative thinker with a can do attitude
- Strategic mindset with excellent analytical skills
- Experience delivering strategic projects across industries and categories
- Knowledge of how to develop commercial proposals
- Proven track record of working to deliver multiple concurrent projects successfully
- Stand out client management and collaboration
- Excellent at all forms of collaboration & communication including presentation & writing skills and experienced with PowerPoint
If you don't meet every single requirement, we'd still encourage you to apply. At WARC, we are committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you are excited about this role we would still like you to apply.
Who are we?
WARC is the global authority on marketing effectiveness. We provide rigorous and unbiased evidence, expertise and guidance to help marketers navigate any challenges effectively. WARC services include 100,000+ case studies, best practice guides, research papers, special reports, advertising trend data, news & opinion articles, as well as awards, events and advisory services.
WARC operates out of London, Los Angeles, New York, São Paulo, Singapore and Shanghai to service a community of over 75,000 marketers in more than 1,300 companies in 100+ markets and collaborates with 50+ industry partners.
WARC is an Ascential company. Ascential delivers specialist information, analytics and ecommerce optimisation platforms to the world's leading consumer brands and their ecosystems. We help our customers to make smart decisions that improve performance now, and in the future.
With more than 3,300 employees across five continents, we combine local expertise with a global footprint for clients in over 120 countries. We are listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Why choose us?
At Ascential, diversity, equity and inclusion is core to us. We’re a company built around our people - and we’re committed to supporting each and every one of them to be the best they can be. We love having a diverse team of people who bring new ideas and different strengths and perspectives to Ascential. Our employee-led groups and networks, Ascential Pride, Black in Business and EmPower: An Ascential Women's Initiative, Shalom Ascential and Latinx, help us to create a place where communities and allies can connect and share experiences. We are proud to have been recognised as a best performer in the FTSE Women Leaders Review for six consecutive years, listed in the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index and ranked in the top 1500 companies on Sustainalytics.
We are committed to supporting the environment and sustainability, including ensuring our pension plan defaults to sustainable options and striving to be net zero by 2030.
Recognising great performance is a key part of our culture. Our Awards schemes recognise and reward the brilliant achievements of our people.
We have a truly flexible working environment with a wide range of flexible, hybrid and agile-working arrangements. Conversations about flexible working have always been - and will continue to be - actively encouraged here.
Our benefits and wellbeing package offers flexible benefits you can tailor to your own personal needs, including:
- 25 days of holiday per year - with an option to buy/ sell upto 5 days
- Pension, Life Assurance and Income Protection
- Flexible benefits platform with options including Private Medical, Dental Insurance, Critical Illness and the Ascential Shares Scheme
- Employee assistance programme, season ticket loans and cycle to work scheme
- Volunteering opportunities and charitable giving options
- Great learning and development opportunities.
We want to ensure everyone has the opportunity to perform their best when interviewing, so if you require any reasonable adjustments that would make you more comfortable during the process, please let us know so that we can do our best to support you.
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