Responsibilities

• Lead complex global consultancy projects from initial scoping and discovery through to strategy, delivery and commercial conversations.
• Develop bespoke, evidence-based strategies for retail and commerce partners, including opportunity sizing, market positioning, strategic vision and detailed operational plans.
• Build compelling business cases and commercial models that help clients understand and unlock the potential of their commerce media capabilities.
• Create future-facing strategic plans, typically looking three to five years ahead, combining commercial opportunity with innovative and sustainable solutions.
• Build high-impact presentations that turn complex analysis into clear, compelling stories tailored to audiences ranging from specialist teams to C-Suite leaders.
• Develop deep, trusted relationships with senior retail and commerce stakeholders, presenting recommendations credibly and acting as an expert consultant.
• Work with SMG’s market leads to develop the future client pipeline and help convert consultancy engagements into longer-term SMG partnerships.
• Play an active role in commercial modelling and negotiations for prospective partners.
• Help build and evolve SMG’s consulting capability, from market benchmarking and opportunity-sizing methodologies to operating models, change management and competitor analysis.
• Project manage complex, cross-functional work involving specialist and local teams across SMG, ensuring successful delivery and seamless handover when new partnerships are won.

Requirements

• Strong knowledge and experience of the US and/or UK retail and commerce media landscape .
• A proven track record of developing high-quality, innovative strategic proposals that challenge client thinking and create commercial impact.
• Experience leading complex, high-profile projects with significant commercial value and impact on large-scale businesses.
• Excellent strategic thinking, with the ability to translate complex analysis into a clear vision, compelling narrative and actionable plan.
• Experience developing bespoke, future-facing and sustainable solutions rather than relying on one-size-fits-all approaches.
• Strong experience engaging and influencing senior stakeholders, including building trusted relationships with C-Suite audiences.
• The ability to lead complex, cross-functional projects end to end while managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced growth environment.
• Confidence using data to develop evidence-based recommendations and communicate the implications clearly.
• Strong commercial acumen, including experience with budgeting, financial or commercial modelling and business cases.
• The ability to independently create and deliver high-impact presentations with complex strategic narratives.

Benefits

• 10% discretionary bonus
• £1,800 yearly wellbeing fund (on top of your salary!)
• Free Headspace subscription
• £500 yearly “Uni Fund” for learning
• 4 extra Wellbeing Days off per year
• Annual Summer conference + year-round celebrations
• 4pm finishes every Friday
• Flexible and hybrid working