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As a Strategy Consultant at Lippincott, you will play an integral role in solving complex brand challenges for ambitious companies, and bringing them to life through strategy, experience, marketing, and design. You will apply strategic, analytical, and creative thinking in everything you do to tackle transformative initiatives for clients. Get ready to consult globally across industries on a range of branding challenges, including brand positioning, messaging, brand architecture, naming, and marketing and customer strategy.
On any given day, you might be supporting efforts to name a pioneering AI offering, reposition the story of a major airline, or develop a brand campaign for a leading cancer hospital. Here, you’ll work shoulder-to-shoulder with the brightest minds, learn by doing client-facing work, and get hands-on coaching to grow as a creative problem-solver.
What you’ll do:
Define and decode complex business and creative challenges with your team
Push the team’s thinking by bringing your point of view to creative brainstorms and client meetings
Analyze client business dynamics, brand experiences, and the competitive landscape to distill implications for the client’s brand
Flex your written voice in brand manifestos, creative concepts, and messaging across clients
Research customer needs and brand perceptions by conducting interviews, focus groups, and online surveys
Support the development of compelling presentations with clear, persuasive stories and recommendations grounded in qualitative and quantitative insight
Learn the critical role a well-formed strategy plays to inspire and interconnect brand, marketing, and experience
Help to manage projects, circulate meeting notes, and track day-to-day priorities to advance the team’s work flows
What you bring:
Equal parts head and heart, applying a blend of rigorous analysis with bold creativity to solve client challenges
Curiosity about brand trends, news, and the underlying business strategies driving them
The ability to tell a clear story with a sound argument when writing, preparing slides, or presenting your ideas
Comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to bring a structured problem-solving approach to open-ended directions or changes in priorities
Aptitude for conducting multi-source research efficiently, distilling complex information into pointed recommendations for clients
Detail-orientation, organizational skills, and a methodical approach to work
A growth mindset, with a restless desire to learn new ways of solving problems and find new capabilities to master
Receptiveness to diverse perspectives, and the potential to lead and collaborate in team-based settings with clients
Proficiency in PowerPoint, with proficiency in Excel being a plus
Eligibility:
Be a college senior receiving your bachelor's degree in spring or summer of 2026
Have a GPA of 3.5 or higher
Have unrestricted eligibility to work in the United States
Instructions for your Application:
Materials required for your application:
Please submit a resume and cover letter with your online application. Your cover letter must address the following questions in 500 words or less:
Why are you interested in a career in branding?
What would be a dream brand for you to work on and why?
Please refrain from using AI to generate your cover letter. We’re not looking for perfection – we’re much more interested in hearing your voice, what you have to say, and how you choose to say it.
Please note, any application received without a cover letter will not be put forward for consideration.
Timeline
The final date to apply for this position will be September 16, 2025 at 11:59 PM ET.
The start date for this full-time, permanent position will be September 2026.
About Lippincott
Lippincott is a global brand, marketing and experience consultancy committed to helping companies address their most complex brand challenges. Identifying fresh opportunities and realizing brand possibilities is our specialty. Since 1943, Lippincott has produced lasting, transformative impact for clients across a range of sectors. As part of the Oliver Wyman group, Lippincott brings high-caliber industry and operational insights into our work, blending a management consultancy’s strategic rigor with a proven legacy of design and creativity.
Who We Are, Together…
We promote a culture of collaboration and performance through our three core values:
We demand better, reach higher, and expect more of ourselves and our colleagues. We demonstrate gratitude, offer support, and embrace optimism every day.
We celebrate debate, discussion, disagreement, and feedback, with an open mind to new ways of thinking and doing.
We act with passion, intention, and goodwill while building on and elevating everyone’s contributions and sharing in our collective success.
In our pursuit to produce meaningful change, we want our people to feel heard, respected and valued through our words and actions – goals we can only achieve with a sustained commitment to inclusion and belonging. We seek the best and brightest ideas from a variety of backgrounds and experiences because we know that’s what it takes to continuously push the boundaries, solve our clients’ most complex challenges, and foster an inspiring culture of rigorous creativity. We celebrate and leverage our differences and our commonalities so everyone feels safe, supported and encouraged to be wide open, to say “yes, and!” and to demand better of ourselves and one another. We aspire to be positive role models for inclusion at an individual level, corporate level, and societal level.
The applicable base pay for this role is $82,000.
The base pay offered will be determined on factors such as experience, skills, training, location, certifications, and education. Decisions will be determined on a case-by-case basis. In addition to the base salary, this position will be eligible for performance-based incentives.
We are excited to offer a competitive total rewards package which includes health benefits, 401K savings as well as employee assistance programs.
Lippincott is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions at Lippincott are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications without regard to race, national origin, age, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran or disability status or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in locations where we operate. We are committed to promoting a workplace that we are all proud to be a part of. #Lippincott
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are framed as solid, with 401(k) programs and employer matching frequently highlighted alongside other financial programs. Stock purchase options are also referenced as an additional wealth-building component of the total rewards mix.
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