Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary client contact for all key strategic issues
• Establish credibility and sound, professional relationships with client counterparts.
• Take initiative to understand the client’s business and industry and be viewed as a knowledge expert by the client; also provide that perspective to internal teams
• Consistently over-deliver and act as a trusted client advisor
• Effectively present to clients, deal with difficult client questions and run consulting-related portions of client meetings
• Deep knowledge of some of our clients industries, and an ability to quickly acquire more
• Maintain high standards of overall work quality and end products
• Lead, with supervision, a variety of corporate, product, consumer, and digital brand consulting work
• Actively participate in the production of work product, including defining themes and concepts, organizing slides, constructing frameworks, brainstorming names, and writing content
• Possess the ability to think conceptually: logically define information needs, drive facts to findings/insights, understand client organization and issues, contribute to strategic and creative thinking, and create actionable solutions

Requirements

• Graduate degree preferred
• Four-six years brand strategy experience
• Expertise in research, brand strategy, messaging, marketing and consulting

Preferred

• Experience leading or guiding junior team members
• Familiarity with brand architecture and naming exercises