Senior Strategy Consultant, Central London / Remote – Up to £400/day (freelance / FTC)
This integrated creative agency drive desire for some of the world’s best-known fashion and lifestyle brands. They’re going through an exciting phase of growth with big plans being put into place. Their team are a multi-disciplinary bunch who are passionate about delivering stylish work that drives brand and business growth.
They need a Senior Strategy Consultant to demystify top-table issues and create actionable strategic frameworks to drive growth & value for the world’s most ambitious fashion & lifestyle brands.
The experience they’re looking for in this Senior Strategy Consultant:
- Proven track record delivering value-driving consultancy and strategy frameworks for fashion & lifestyle (retail / beauty / wellness) brands
- Experience in creating sustainability, digital transformation, brand strategy, retail, operations, and growth agenda frameworks
- Fluent in managing and applying research, data, and insight to understand and solve key C-Suite issues
- +5 years’ experience leading strategy & consultancy projects in a department for a major consultancy focussed on fashion & lifestyle
- A small strategic consultancy focussed on fashion & lifestyle
- A strategy dept for a creative agency - providing consultancy & strategy services beyond comms & content
- An in-house strategy dept for a fashion brand
The responsibilities of this Senior Strategy Consultant will be:
- Working with your client’s senior stakeholders up to C-Suite level across key issues, including sustainability, digital transformation, brand strategy, retail, operations and growth agenda for multiple fashion and lifestyle brands
- Set and realise a clear strategic vision and delivery plan across of your projects – owning it from brief to delivery
- Outline the tools, talent and investment required to deliver against your projects
- Deliver brilliant, value & growth driving strategic and consultancy output
The personal skills this Senior Strategy Consultant will have:
- A naturally inquisitive mind, who (politely) interrogates, challenges & thinks laterally to get to the heart of the problem
- Strong clout to lead, manage + inspire senior stakeholders & partners
- An expert listener
- High emotional intelligence – you read & steer a room brilliantly
- An expert problem solver - able to pre-empt & navigate
- An astute decision-maker who inspires confidence at a senior level
- Collaborative and confident by nature
- A clear & engaging communicator
- A big-picture thinker
- Culturally aware & inspired – specifically in terms of fashion, technology, music & art
- A self-starter with bags of initiative & energy
- Organised & able to juggle multiple workstreams
- Calm & resilient under pressure
- Positive & optimistic
- Open minded & hearted
- Honest & fair