New York, USA
Freelance (Generalist) Consultant
Role overview
We are a collaborative, supportive, pioneering, and high-performing global team who have a passion and purpose to support, inspire and transform the lives of marketeers. We help increase marketing effectiveness through better integrated marketing, fixing, and fine-tuning our clients’ market resources.
We are looking for a talented, experienced & highly energetic Consultant to work on a freelancer basis, supporting our USA team. The successful candidate will be or have been in a mid-senior marketing role at a well-known brand-led organisation or a senior role in a leading agency. The candidate may have held (or holds) a similar position with an agency. The candidate will have 10+ years of top-class experience. They will have worked on regional or global brands, with overseas experience, being an advantage. They will have excellent first-hand experience of managing various projects simultaneously, as well as managing and nurturing a team.
Our projects are large and complex as well as global in nature. We want to work with people who are:
- Naturally collaborative and thrive in a flat and flexible organisation.
- Thoughtful communicators, seeking to foster meaningful relationships across our community of diverse partners.
- Caring and open to All. Those who are inclusive leaders, committed to learning, and leveraging our differences as strengths.
- Pragmatic and Optimistic with energy and enthusiasm for what’s next shining through in everything they do.
- Curious. Those who are courageous and use their deep business insights to cultivate innovation.
Responsibilities
What we are looking for
- Digital and creative agency consulting experience
- Experience in a similar consulting firm with Fortune 500 clients would be preferable
- Demonstrable experience leading large-scale transformation programs with global companies
- Experience partnering with advertising / marketing agencies
- Deep understanding of issues facing consumer and services industry
- Deep experience in marketing strategies, operating models and impact on marketing driven business results
- Hands on experience in developing marketing strategies
- Deep knowledge of agencies, and how to get the best from them
- Strong ability to manage senior level conversations
- Strong ability to lead transformation programs to provide best practices, operating models, process designs and capability definition
- Experience across multiple advertiser category sectors.
- Must be detail-oriented and highly organized.
- Must have the ability to work independently without guidance.
- Must have a professional demeanour and be able to quickly build valued senior level client relationships.
Flock and our culture
Flock Associates is The Marketing Transformation Company. Marketing Transformation is the process of reinventing an organisational marketing ecosystem, making it fit for the future. We focus on the operational aspects of marketing; improving marketing effectiveness & efficiency across five areas; Capability, Operations, Procurement, Marketing Technology, & Strategy. We help increase marketing effectiveness by fixing and fine-tuning our clients’ marketing resources. Flock works with some of the world’s most marketing intensive clients; Ford, McDonald’s, Ebay, Mondelez, Volkswagen, Diageo, Sega, Johnson & Johnson, EY, Kellogg’s, Campbell’s Soup, Toyota, Lexus and many others.
At Flock, we always put the Customer and the Future at the heart of our clients’ strategies. We are relentless in our pursuit and application of world-class, best practice thinking.
Flock is a warm, fun, rewarding, challenging and fast paced environment, where hard work and dedication are part of what makes us who we are. The Flock culture is to deliver services to our clients in a highly professional manner; exceptional quality, outstanding customer service, honesty and added value. We expect anyone joining the team to work to the same high standards with a strong work ethic. Internally we give each other lift and support, working collaboratively and building on each other’s strengths; we’re a Flock!
We pride ourselves in being global in thinking and structure. Our team comprises many different nationalities, and many of us have worked and lived in different markets around the world. We are an equal opportunities company.
If this role aligns to your experience and you are excited about working with a dynamic and innovative business on a freelance basis, then we would love to hear from you.
If this sounds like you and you are excited about joining a young, innovative, and expanding business then we would love to hear from you. To apply, please send your CV and availability to careers@flock-associates.com