Associate Consultant

THE OPPORTUNITY
An exciting opportunity has become available to be part of our fast-growing team, and to be a key part of the Consultant function. This role provides an outstanding opportunity to join one of the UK’s fastest growing marketing service and will provide an ambitious individual with valuable experience for progression and development.

THE COMPANY

MediaSense delivers both productised and custom-made solutions for clients through three service lines:

• Models: Strategic consultancy service to transform internal and external creative and media operating models and technology to drive productivity and sustained value. This includes models such as integrated service models and operational design.

• Partners: Strategic pitch management service of creative, media, data and technology partners aligned to the client’s value, performance and capability goals. This includes change management and pitch management, based on client need after analysis.

• Analytics: Media auditing and analytics using cross-channel data to optimise performance and ensure the best value on the clients’ marketing investment. There are different levels of the analytics service adapted to the clients’ needs, all underpinned by robust data insights. This includes media spend and production analysis.

The business is designed around its clients and offers a tailored service with access to all service lines which focus on creative, media and analytics. MediaSense service lines are designed around our clients, and we tailor our solutions to fit our client’s needs across the marketing spectrum. Increasingly we are working on projects to analyse the impact AI tools can make to our client’s business, with that work running across all three of our service lines.

MediaSense has proven ability to effectively support large, complex organisations and deliver multiple projects simultaneously. As evidenced through its strong track record with clients, MediaSense pride themselves on the consistent high quality of service delivery and the ability to accelerate transformation and growth. It is the fastest growing global marketing advisory and serves 60% of the world's top 50 advertisers.

MediaSense works with over 50 clients and has over 200 employees across the UK, New York, Singapore & India. For more information, visit www.media-sense.com

THE ROLE
This position is essential to the effective running of our strategic projects and key to our overall success by being central to building our client relationships. Working within our global team you’ll be assigned to projects across all three of our service lines, supporting the team throughout the process of delivering the work.
The day-to-day requirements will vary, offering opportunities to learn and develop skills to enable career advancement. We want our staff to be able to develop their capabilities and knowledge in a supportive environment that challenges them, so the level of responsibility will vary depending on project and personal development.

Key duties and responsibilities include:

• Supporting on mainly EMEA and global consulting projects
• Use of benchmarking tools and talent to look at fair value compensation and incentives for agencies
• Work with the global specialist’s team members to execute ongoing financial audits
• Creation of agency model case studies to aid benchmarking and identify needs
• Assisting with pitch management through the gathering of insights to create the methodology, agile management of the process and collation of results to support client decision making
• Digital ecosystem benchmarking to investigate brand performance online in an independent way
• Ownership of the project plan, keeping the team focused on tasks needed and managing timelines across the work
• Coordination of key meetings, preparing any pre-reads and following up with actions and contact notes
• Reviews of the scope of work to ensure deliverables are on track
• Identification of any new opportunities to expand our services to clients through project discovering work and identification of any additional support clients need throughout project delivery
• Lead and motivate internal team members to achieve targets and deliver high quality work

THE ESSENTIALS

The ideal candidate will have experience in the marketing services or related sector with 3-7 years of working experience. It’s crucial the candidate has a global mindset, with previous experience working on global clients and withing global teams an asset for the role.
At MediaSense we work in small project teams of three to eight core team members (with the ability to access specialist capabilities as needed), so this role needs a self-starter who is confident in asking for support when needed along with creating and executing solutions for our clients.

WHAT WE OFFER:

• Hybrid working
• 28 days holiday per year, up to a maximum of 32 days
• Work from any location in the world up to 4 weeks per year
• 10 days Annual Leave Purchase per year
• Day off for your birthday
• Company bonus scheme
• Pension
• Private Healthcare
• Employee Assistance programme
• Group Life insurance
• Annual season ticket loan
• Cycle to work scheme
• Eye test & contribution towards glasses for VDU
• Employee Referral Bonus
• New Business Bonus