Senior Consultant or Associate Director | Growth Studio

Senior Consultant or Associate Director | Growth StudioSalary, Senior Consultant: £45,000–£60,000 + bonusSalary, Associate Director: £60,000-£75,000 + bonusCentral London, hybrid workingYou've probably sat in enough strategy meetings to know the difference between work that ticks a box and work that actually changes how a business thinks. If you're the person who gets more excited by messy, half-formed briefs than by neat ones, keep reading.About The ClientA London-based strategy studio working with major global brands across FMCG, lifestyle, luxury and beyond. They've grown 30% year-on-year and just took PE investment to scale further, which means real budget, real ambition, and an operating model that's still being shaped by the people who join now. Their edge is a proprietary AI insights system paired with genuine cultural and strategic thinking, not one instead of the other.The Day-to-DayOwn strategic workstreams within bigger client projects: building the insight, shaping the narrative, working out how it actually lands in a client's businessUse the in-house AI platform on live briefs spanning category strategy, brand positioning and innovationBecome the person clients trust day-to-day, not just the name on a deckContribute to proposals and pitch thinking alongside more senior strategistsBring rigour and structure to projects without losing the ideas along the wayThe Ideal CandidateYou've spent 3–5 years in a brand or strategy consultancy, and you've built a genuine point of view along the way, not just delivered against someone else's brief. You're as comfortable with ambiguity as you are with a spreadsheet. You can hold your own with senior stakeholders, and you actually want to.