Senior Consultant - Strategy3

As Senior Consultant, you will lead analytics workstreams on client engagements focused on market strategy, ensuring deliverables and client experience are consistently of the highest calibre. You will also provide direction to junior team members, motivating and inspiring them to do their best work.

This role is offered on a hybrid basis with 3 days in our London office and the rest from home.

Your Day to Day

These are the types of things you can expect to be doing during your day to day, although as Ipsos is a dynamic organisation , this may vary as different opportunities arise:

• Own analytics workstreams end-to-end: scoping, solution design, data planning, timelines and stakeholder alignment for market and brand engagements.
• Lead market sizing and opportunity assessment: aggregating and reconciling multiple data sources to build robust, defensible views of market si
• structure and growth potential.
• Build commercial models that support strategic decisions, including portfolio and innovation sizing, pricing scenarios and ROI trade-offs.
• Translate ambiguous client briefs into clear analytical hypotheses, selecting the right methods and justifying trade-offs.
• Ensure rigorous quality assurance: validation checks, sensitivity testing and sign-off on outputs.

Winning and delivering work

• Engage with clients to build awareness of our capabilities, joining briefing calls and presenting credentials.
• Contribute fresh thinking to proposals and pitches, bringing a distinctive perspective to each challenge.
• Present findings to clients with compelling narratives that move from insight to action.

Coaching and developing the team

• Mentor and supervise junior analysts, setting standards and quality bars.
• Provide clear expectations and regular, timely feedback to support continuous learning.

Essential Criteria:

• Experience working in analytics, marketing science, consulting, strategy, or related commercial environments.
• Experience delivering analytical projects that bring together multiple data sources to support business decision-making.
• Experience conducting market sizing, market assessment, opportunity identification, or commercial analysis.
• Experience developing business cases, financial models, and recommendations for stakeholders.
• Experience working across multiple projects, teams, or stakeholder groups.
• Ability to aggregate, analyse and synthesise data from a range of sources, including industry, survey, financial and internal datasets.
• Financial modelling skills, including scenario analysis, sensitivity testing and commercial evaluation.
• Proficiency in Python, R, or comparable analytical tools for data ingestion, analysis and modelling.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify insights and translate them into practical recommendations.
• Ability to develop clear visualisations and communicate findings through concise, audience-appropriate narratives.
• Project management skills, including planning, prioritisation and delivery across multiple workstreams.
• Ability to communicate complex information effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences

Desirable Criteria:

• Ideally you will have spent time working within a complex organisation and will be able to demonstrate:
• Strong collaboration skills and ability to work effectively across functions
• Proficiency in AI use and adoption to enhance day-to-day tasks in line with organisational compliance requirements
• Commercial outlook with an ability to understand client business and promote Ipsos Client First behaviours.
• Collaborative and an excellent team player, contributing to our positive office culture

Behaviours:

• Demonstrates a collaborative approach and contributes positively to team outcomes.
• Builds effective working relationships with stakeholders across teams and functions.
• Shows initiative and takes ownership for delivering high-quality work.
• Communicates clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing.
• Demonstrates curiosity and a willingness to learn, explore new ideas and challenge assumptions.
• Applies sound judgement when navigating ambiguity and solving problems.
• Combines analytical thinking with creativity to develop practical and innovative solutions.
• Adapts to changing priorities and balances competing demands effectively.
• Supports the development and success of colleagues through knowledge sharing, coaching, or mentorship where appropriate.

Benefits:

We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support you as an individual. Our standard benefits include 25 days annual leave, pension contribution, income protection and life assurance. In addition, there are a range health & wellbeing, financial benefits and professional development opportunities.

We realise you may have commitments outside of work and will consider flexible working applications - please highlight what you are looking for when you make your application. We have a hybrid approach to work and ask people to be in the office or with clients for 3 days per week.

We are committed to equality, treating people fairly, promoting a positive and inclusive working environment and ensuring we have diversity of people and views. We recognise that this is important for our business success - a more diverse workforce will enable us to better reflect and understand the world we research and ultimately deliver better research and insight to our clients. We are proud to be a member of the Disability Confident scheme, certified as a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. We provide an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. Your application will be reviewed by someone from our Talent Team who will be in touch either way to let you know the outcome.

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About UsIpsos is one of the world’s largest research companies and currently the only one primarily managed by researchers, ranking as a #1 full-service research organization for four consecutive years. With over 75 different data-driven solutions, and presence in 90 markets, Ipsos brings together research, implementation, methodological, and subject-matter experts from around the world, combining thematic and technical experts to deliver top-quality research and insights. Simply speaking, we help the biggest companies solve some of their biggest problems, serving more than 5000 clients across the globe by providing research, data, and insights on their target markets. And we are proud of our continuous efforts in making Ipsos the best place to work! About the Team

Strategy3 is a leading brand, strategy and marketing consultancy, founded and run on the premise that marketing and business are intertwined, and critically, rooted in customer centricity. S3’s multi-disciplinary team of brand strategists, researchers, management consultants, ad executives, and even a few attorneys and accountants, work together to answer complex business questions.