While this role will be based within our Behavioural Science practice, you’ll have exposure across our practices and will work across projects, developing skills in Brand & Marketing Innovation, Business Transformation, and Sustainability as well.

As a successful Behavioural Science Consultant, you will:

• Have a fluent knowledge of behavioural science and key concepts and theories.
• Be capable of interpreting research from a range of quantitative and qualitative sources and techniques (academic literature, ethnographic, and complex data sets).
• Be a confident, engaging, and inspiring presenter capable of translating academic insights into a broader business context.
• Be capable of building strong external and internal client relationships and offering constructive challenge when required.
• Be a champion of creative ideas and creative approaches to research.
• Always seek to help others, create a positive working environment, and provide constructive feedback that fosters high-quality output.
• Have AI experience and capability, integrated into your workflow.

Responsibilities

Project Delivery

Under the guidance of Directors, Consultants are responsible for driving medium complexity/scale projects and supporting large-scale/complexity projects. This includes:

• Leading the delivery of primary and secondary research (e.g., literature reviews, competitor analysis, and consumer research) ensuring appropriate detail and scientific rigour curated to the needs of the client.
• Distilling research into strategic and creative opportunities.
• Developing ideation workshops, taking a lead role in workshop facilitation, and developing behavioural interventions.
• Championing creativity, with responsibility for nurturing the creative output of your projects; identifying opportunities from insights and refining the most novel and effective applications of behavioural science.
• Working to delegate project deliverables to Analysts, including reviewing and providing feedback to the quality of all client-facing deliverables.
• Managing day-to-day client communications, solidifying the relationship, and leading client meetings.
• Managing project timelines, budgets, and setting expectations with both delivery teams and clients.
• Managing relationships with third-party suppliers.
• Maintaining the Ogilvy Consulting standard of excellence in consulting, rigour, and creativity.

Business Development

• Proactively participating in growth conversations with existing and prospective clients.
• Drafting new business proposals for Director sign-off, including approach, budget, scope, and project plan.
• Contributing to agency pitches.
• Contributing to thought leadership and events (e.g., The Annual and Nudgestock).

Experience

An undergraduate degree is a minimum requirement, and a Masters or beyond is certainly beneficial. Subjects may include (but are not limited to) psychology, biology, humanities/social sciences, and economics. We’re most concerned with how you’ve used and applied what you’ve studied, rather than the specific discipline itself.

Ideally 4-6 years of experience in a consultancy, client strategy position, or equivalent strategic role in professional services.

Skills and Attributes

• Knowledge of behaviour change principles, heuristics and biases, and fundamentals of psychology and behavioural economics.
• Abreast of industry trends and innovations with a good understanding of the broader applications of behavioural science.
• Qualitative and quantitative research skills (including desk research and primary consumer research).
• Able to draw critical human and cultural insights from data and observation.
• Strong business acumen and critical thinking skills.
• Exemplary interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to take initiative and to work independently and within a team.
• Ability to delegate, provide constructive feedback, and manage individuals within a project team.
• Excellent organization and time management skills with the ability to multitask, especially in high-pressure situations.
• Strong work ethic with superior attention to detail.
• Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly in Excel and PowerPoint.
• Strong use of AI, with some experience of AI automated workflows.

How we help you Thrive

• 25 days annual leave + 1 Volunteer Day
• Bupa Healthcare
• Enhanced Maternity, Adoption, and Shared Parental Leave
• We have a Flexible Working Model with core working hours: 10 am – 4 pm
• A 1.5:1 Matching Pension Structure
• Wellbeing and Health: Up to £25.00 per month towards physical or online exercise class membership, Unmind membership, LifeWorks tool, and annual eye tests and development budgets and Wellbeing incentives and activities throughout the year
• Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work Scheme
• Life Assurance

Our ambition is to attract the very best diverse talent to Ogilvy, and to be the employer of choice in the UK. We want everyone to feel welcome when they join us, and once they’re here, for them to want to stay with us, grow their career, and to feel they belong with us.

We are an equal opportunity employer and we’re committed to creating an inclusive, welcoming environment for everyone who wants to work at Ogilvy. For us, diversity, equity, and inclusion is integrated into everything that we do. We believe that for creativity to flourish, everything about how we work must have diversity at its core. Your race, colour, ethnic, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, have no bearing on our hiring decisions, but we encourage everyone to feel free to express their true selves in an environment we are consistently striving to make as inclusive as possible.

We aim to facilitate an accessible and positive application experience for all candidates. If you require any adjustments from us to support you through the process or expect to require any adjustments to working conditions to be able to best perform in the role, please let us know. We are happy to consider all reasonable adjustments.

If you live with a disability and you would like to take advantage of our offer of a guaranteed interview under the Disability Confident Scheme, please ensure you fill out our voluntary Equal Opportunities Questionnaire when applying.