Lippincott - Senior Associate, Brand Strategy

Senior Associate Brand Strategy

As part of the Brand Strategy team at Lippincott, you will play an integral role in solving complex brand challenges for ambitious companies, partnering with teams across the firm to create and bring solutions to life through strategy, experience, marketing, and design. You will apply analytical and creative thinking in everything you do to tackle transformative initiatives for clients. Get ready to consult globally across industries on a range of branding challenges, including brand positioning, messaging, brand architecture, naming, and marketing and customer strategy.

As a Senior Associate, you will be responsible for structuring and managing the case in terms of thought leadership and project management. You will guide the team to deliver the solution and build top-notch deliverables—varying from creative big ideas to elegant architecture models and more. No matter how ambiguous the brand challenge, you'll develop the core problem structuring and solving approach to get it done. To clients, you'll become a trusted expert they can rely on for day-to-day guidance. On your case teams, you'll be a people-manager and thought leader, steering the work plan and owning multiple workstreams of a project. And when solving multi-disciplinary brand challenges, you'll be a critical thought partner for other teams (e.g., design, experience) and voice of the client's needs.

What you'll do:

• Oversee and shape the development of potential brand opportunities based on client business strategy, competitive dynamics, best practice analysis, and customer insights
• Structure project work plans and guide team workflow, while developing and guiding more junior team members
• Be the key point-person with clients and other stakeholders, help manage their expectations, and provide recommendations reflecting Lippincott's point of view
• Develop client relationships and contribute to new business opportunities
• Conduct in-depth interviews with client leadership and their customers
• Manage case team resources (e.g., talent, firm intellectual capital, budget)
• Identify other experts, frameworks, and examples from Lippincott to aid the case team in cracking- multi-disciplinary challenges for clients
• Develop storyboards and identify applicable frameworks for client presentations, and then play a significant role in delivering them
• Manage and analyze quantitative and qualitative customer / prospect research, partnering with analytics specialists as appropriate

What makes you a great candidate:

• At least 8 years of full-time experience in consulting, business strategy, or brand strategy
• MBA or equivalent welcomed, but not necessary
• Advisory and leadership presence with experience enthusiastically building, motivating, and inspiring teams
• Comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to steer the team's structured problem-solving approach to open-ended directions or changes in priorities
• Ability to lead multiple client projects simultaneously and autonomously
• Outstanding presentation, writing, and the ability to communicate effectively to both the C-suite and entry-level (incl. PowerPoint)
• Ability to connect the dots between deep business understanding, brand implications, and creative solutions to the client's specific challenge
• Ability to influence and guide multi-disciplinary teams and diverse stakeholders to get the job done
• Passionate about pushing your thinking, attacking issues from multiple angles, and stretching yourself to provide outstanding brand ideas to clients
• Willingness to roll up your sleeves and solve challenges that extend the scope of brand into experience and marketing
• An appetite for learning and tackling challenging topics across a diverse range of clients/industries
• Openness to travel

About Lippincott Lippincott is a global brand, marketing and experience consultancy committed to helping companies address their most complex brand challenges. Identifying fresh opportunities and realizing brand possibilities is our specialty. Since 1943, Lippincott has produced lasting, transformative impact for clients across a range of sectors. As part of the Oliver Wyman group, Lippincott brings high-caliber industry and operational insights into our work, blending a management consultancy's strategic rigor with a proven legacy of design and creativity.

Who We Are, Together …

We promote a culture of collaboration and performance through our three core values:

We demand better, reach higher, and expect more of ourselves and our colleagues. We demonstrate gratitude, offer support, and embrace optimism every day.

We celebrate debate, discussion, disagreement, and feedback, with an open mind to new ways of thinking and doing. We act with passion, intention, and goodwill while building on and elevating everyone's contributions and sharing in our collective success.

In our pursuit to produce meaningful change, we want our people to feel heard, respected and valued through our words and actions – goals we can only achieve with a sustained commitment to inclusion and belonging. We seek the best and brightest ideas from a variety of backgrounds and experiences because we know that's what it takes to continuously push the boundaries, solve our clients' most complex challenges, and foster an inspiring culture of rigorous creativity. We celebrate and leverage our differences and our commonalities so everyone feels safe, supported and encouraged to be wide open, to say "yes, and!" and to demand better of ourselves and one another. We aspire to be positive role models for inclusion at an individual level, corporate level, and societal level.

The applicable base pay for this role is $150,000 - $190,000. The base pay offered will be determined on factors such as experience, skills, training, location, certifications, and education. Decisions will be determined on a case-by-case basis. In addition to the base salary, this position will be eligible for performance-based incentives. We are excited to offer a competitive total rewards package which includes health benefits, 401K savings as well as employee assistance programs.

Lippincott is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions at Lippincott are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications without regard to race, national origin, age, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran or disability status or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in locations where we operate. We are committed to promoting a workplace that we are all proud to be a part of. #Lippincott