Senior Consultant, Strategy

About Interbrand

Interbrand understands what it takes today to build the world’s most iconic brands.

To support our clients in an ever more complex and fascinating world, we have renewed our commitment to both common global standards and greater empowerment, experimentation and entrepreneurialism.

Interbrand is its people. We are a global team of highly diverse thinkers, makers and collaborators. We are proud of our heritage and often regarded as the university of branding. Over the past four decades, we have pioneered iconic work and invented many of the brand building tools that are now commonplace.

In collaboration with many of the world’s leading brands, we are pioneering the future of brand building. In a world where people’s expectations are moving faster than businesses, we give our clients the confidence to make Iconic Moves that create desire and utility, reshape the competitive landscape and drive extraordinary results.

The Interbrand Best Global Brands study/rankings are resources to our clients and the industry, providing proprietary data and insight for our role as client partner and commentator. We have published 18 books on brands and are often the reference point for university curriculum and professional associations. Today, through our own Academy, we aim to be the most impactful learning environment in the marketing world.

Our Behaviours

Our culture is informed by a set of behaviours we co-created as a business. Our behaviours give us space to experiment, permission to speak out, and a model of leadership that anyone in the business can adopt. Our behaviours are Lead with love, Be Brave, Listen First and Make it happen. We are proud of our behaviours. They make us, us.  

Your passion for branding and curiosity has led you to Interbrand. You have strong strategic abilities that you can pair with creativity to solve big challenges and help grow the largest brands and businesses in the world. At Interbrand, you will create iconic work that defines customer expectations across the globe and creates growth for all.

As a  Senior Consultant, Strategy at Interbrand, you will work on client teams and be responsible for creating high-impact presentations with a solid point of view to convince senior leaders to take action. You manage individual deliverables typically as part of a larger branding program. You collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team of designers, writers, and other strategists to create high-impact work that solves client and customer challenges. Additionally, you support business development efforts through research and thought leadership to make sure Interbrand is leading conversations across topics. You contribute to Interbrand’s culture by participating in meetings, workshops, and debates, and by taking on team initiatives for things you care about. Strategists are at the center of the action at Interbrand—bringing new ideas to the table, guiding and challenging the team, and building a director-level experience set in the process.

THE ROLE:

• Own specific deliverables within a project and manage all components (research, content development, team reviews, etc.)
• Collaborate with the internal team and client to formalize hypotheses and develop compelling strategic recommendations
• Collaborate with strategy leads and program managers to ensure that activities are progressing as planned, care deeply about the quality of the work
• Know what’s going on in the business and world — be a go-to source for trends, shifts, emerging customer dynamics, and behavior. Tell us what our clients should care about
• Engage with your team and with Fortune 500 clients in stakeholder interviews and discussions about topics critical to their business
• Synthesize learning and push beyond the fact base to craft compelling stories driven by your own point of view
• Ensure that timelines are met and knowledge is shared across the team

WHAT YOU BRING:

• Proven experience in brand marketing, business strategy, client service, design, innovation, or research
• Strong writing and presentation skills
• Strong proficiency in PowerPoint (bonus points for Keynote)
• Working understanding of business processes
• Experience with various research methodologies and comfort with qualitative and quantitative data
• Interest in seeing the impact of your work in client businesses and in the real world
• We need you so we can be us!

NOTE: This is a hybrid role and requires you to be in our NYC office 3 days per week

Compensation

• Base salary range of $100k to $120k
• This range represents the low and high end of the base salary someone in this role may earn as an employee of Interbrand in the United States. Salaries will vary based on various factors including but not limited to professional and academic experience; training; associated responsibilities; other business and organizational needs; and geographic location (to account for comparative cost of living). The range listed is just one component of our total compensation package for employees. Salary decisions are dependent on the circumstances of each hire.
• Benefits for this role include: Health/Vision/Dental Insurance; Family Forming Benefits; 401(k); Employee Stock Purchase Program; Annual Education Assistance; Health and Wellness Discounts; Spending and Saving Accounts; Vacation, Sick, and Personal Days; Paid Parental and Medical Leave; Life, AD&D and Disability Insurance; EAP; Mobile Phone Reimbursement

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