Associate Consultant

First - the role

Horizon Strategy, a London/Oxford-based strategic consultancy specialising in tech & telco, is looking for a Consultant/Graduate/Post-graduate to enter our generalist track and to work on international strategic assignments in the area of customer experience (CX), marketing strategy, product/service strategy and Go-To-Market.

The role would involve both qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews and quantitative analysis of data from research surveys and secondary research sources. The role would be reporting to and working closely with a Senior Consultant and/or a Director. The successful candidate will be required to display exceptional analytical skills and an ability to communicate a clear and compelling narrative.

Horizon Strategy intends to invest significantly into the candidate’s training through robust, on-the-job coaching, mentoring and specialist courses. There is a potential for the candidate to make significant impact on the business from day one, working directly with C-suite.

Responsibilities & deliverables

90% Project Delivery; 10% Business Operations & Support

Project Delivery & Management (including fieldwork and financial project management):

Strategy:

• Delivering cutting-edge analysis at the business unit level with a view to impacting C-level conversations
• Influencing senior stakeholders and helping to reframe their thinking
• Challenging assumptions and offering solutions that make a real business impact

Design:

• Employing cutting-edge design thinking methods (which we can teach you) to understand human nature and propose solutions that are attractive, feasible and viable
• Designing compelling presentation documents
• Proposing frameworks that are both strategically sound and visually powerful

Insights:

• Conducting in-depth interviews and co-development groups
• Qualitative research development (discussion guides, templates)
• Synthesising insights
• Analysing qualitative and quantitative reports
• Preparation of virtual and agile research environments (e.g. Miro)

Client interaction:

• Client workshop input, moderation and assistance
• Presenting to Director, VP level clients

Project delivery:

• Contributing to delivering written PPT/Word-based reports
• Quality control of documents produced (including copy-editing for maximum client impact)

Personal prerequisites sought: Essential capabilities

• A degree from a top university
• A* thinker-doer
• Experience of delivering high quality written reports and spoken presentations
• Absolute fluency in spoken and written English is a must
• PowerPoint, Excel and Word skills are essential

• Attitude factors sought
• Entrepreneurial, can-do attitude
• Readiness to invest emotional commitment into the business
• Ability to work under pressure, manage several tasks simultaneously and respond quickly to changing circumstances and priorities
• Ability to lead upwards, downwards and sideways (practising 360 degrees leadership)
• Cooperative/good communicating skills/ability to interact at all levels
• Pride in producing the best outputs possible
• Fluency in any one of the following languages is a benefit: German, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, French

Timings and package:

• Full-time (5 days/week) working from home and London/Oxford office. We operate a flexible hybrid model.

The financial package is competitive and dependent on the level of experience. It consists of:

• Competitive base salary (£35,000-45,000)
• Bonus scheme
• Company pension scheme
• Private medical insurance
• Flexible working from home policy
• 23+ holidays p.a. (in addition to bank holidays)
• Health benefits
• Additional perks