Job: Senior Strategic Marketing Consultant, Rare Selection

Employer: Rare Selection
Posted: 05 Nov 2009
Reference: Rare 77/6
Contact: Mr Simon Annesley
Location: London
Sector: Telecommunications/IT,
- Financial Services,
- Consumer Goods
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
Position: Senior Strategic Marketing Consultant
Salary: Up to £90K + benefits

Senior Strategic Marketing Consultant

This is an exciting role for a heavyweight marketing consultant who can combine the rigour of a management consultant with creative thinking skills. You will be joining an elite team of creative problem solvers whose expertise centres on the areas of strategy, marketing and innovation.

They invest a significant amount of time and effort in developing new insights about consumers and customers, in understanding markets and industries and in advancing management practices and thought leadership in strategy, innovation and marketing.

Their unique approach helps to identify and formulate breakthrough innovations, to build powerful positionings, to activate marketing strategies and to help formulate a company’s next big growth strategies. Their model provides a comprehensive framework and process to create breakthrough strategies for building strong brands, innovation and great businesses.

Recent projects include:-

Creating meaningful new services
Developing media neutral communications
Orchestrating applications and new technologies
Creating innovative utilities
Designing social networking services

Job overview:-
•Lead client projects in the areas of brand strategy, growth strategy, consumer insights, customer segmentation, innovation, and organizational change
•Develop and cultivate long-term client relationships
•Mentor and train junior staff
•Lead and oversee internal growth and firm development activities
•Employ superior qualitative and quantitative analytical skills
Skills

Candidate Profile :
•Possesses strong mastery of a breadth and depth of essential consulting skills and business or brand strategy expertise
•Outstanding problem solver, effective leader, and excellent communicator with significant project management experience
•Demonstrated experience in client relationships with C-level executives and in developing new business
•Self starter, pioneering spirit, resourceful and able to take ownership quickly and reliably
•Comfortable with innovation and change: they pride themselves on creating new content and on working on projects that are cutting edge and thus require new thinking
•Able to apply creative thinking to client issues
•Interested in working at a fast-paced, intellectually challenging, growing company that is content driven

Job Requirements
•MBA or Master’s degree with significant work experience
•Strong professional track record in management/strategic consulting or branding/marketing mgt role
•Industry knowledge and experience in one/more of the following: technology, consumer goods, food & beverage, financial services, automotive, healthcare, B2B
•Ability to speak foreign languages a plus