Senior Consultant, WGSN Mindset
Ascential
工作地点
Minsk Region
雇佣形态
全职工
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The role
WGSN, Mindset is looking for a Senior Consultant to join our team in the US, as part of our Mindset consultancy department.
Salary range - $75,000 - $110,000
Working at WGSN
Together, we create tomorrow
A career with WGSN is fast-paced, exciting and full of opportunities to grow and develop. We're a team of consumer and design trend forecasters, content creators, designers, data analysts, advisory consultants and much more, united by a common goal: to create tomorrow.
WGSN's trusted consumer and design forecasts power outstanding product design, enabling our customers to create a better future. Our services cover consumer insights, beauty, consumer tech, fashion, interiors, lifestyle, food and drink forecasting, data analytics and expert advisory. If you are an expert in your field, we want to hear from you.
Role overview
An excellent and creative thought leader with an extensive knowledge of global trends, you will have experience in fashion and/or retail enabling you to contribute to the development of the Mindset consultancy team's vision and revenue growth. Focusing on a defined set of clients in the fashion and retail space, you will develop commercial research solutions that address their needs across a range of topics and categories, applying your experience in directing and managing research, analysis and strategy to meet these client needs and challenges.
The team
The WGSN Mindset team provides world-class consultancy services to our global clients, working within a business that offers a unique blend of specialist researchers, data analysts and industry experts who put trends and data together to provide the answers to create tomorrow. Our fast growing, high performing teamwork in a permanent capacity within WGSN, providing bespoke consultancy projects to clients across multiple industries.
Key accountabilities
• Own and direct large client relationships, constantly identifying potential growth opportunities for the Mindset business
• Research and create solution driven insights and analysis showing a clear understanding of project briefs and clients' business contexts
• Conduct and oversee qualitative primary and secondary research across a variety of methodologies and deliver analysis that provides actionable recommendations that will benefit clients' future business
• Identify new methodologies and frameworks that will ensure best in class consulting that consistently wins new business
• Accountable for the relevancy and quality of analysis delivered to clients, evaluating feedback to maintain and improve standards
• Line management and oversight of teams performance and personal career development plans
• Travel nationally and internationally to deliver high value consulting projects to clients
• Maintain a close working relationship with the commercial and content teams to support client needs and future growth opportunities
This list is not exhaustive and there may be other activities you are required to deliver.
Skills, experience & qualifications required
• Experience within consulting, strategy, consumer insight, design, buying, merchandising, data analysis or content creation, familiar with the workings of agency and consulting models
• Expert level of research, analysis & strategy. Understanding of business strategy to turn research into an actionable insights for clients
• Proven knowledge of the global market from macro to micro trends across consumer, fashion and lifestyle product areas, and the ability to assimilate client challenges/needs into commercial opportunities
• High level of understanding of the role data and analytics plays in commercial success. Ability to analyze data and pinpoint trends that will impact the market.
• Ability to lead teams, prioritize workload, manage and support other members of the team. High level of proficiency in leading projects and initiatives across multiple teams and time zones
• Excellent organization, communication and collaboration skills with the ability to lead and work within an international team to ensure strategy & outputs are of a consistently high standard
• Excellent presentation skills with proven experience of presenting to C-Suite level, internal stakeholders, external clients and events
• Technical skills: Microsoft Office, Google Workspace, Slack, Social Media platforms, good working knowledge of Adobe software, keynote an advantage
Ascential’s supporting beliefs
• Focus: we ruthlessly prioritise and always keep things simple
• All in: once we commit we deliver, with a clear focus on outcome
• Trustworthiness, transparency & openness: transparency inspires trust & empowers
• Be creative: we are smart, pro-active innovators
• Facts: we always use data & insight to inform our work
• Empathy: we can be relied upon for fairness and consideration
• No silos: one team, one face, one reputation
What we offer
Our benefits and wellbeing package offers flexible benefits you can tailor to your own personal needs, including:
• Paid Time Off – 15 days of vacation per year with an additional day
for each year of service up to 20 days. Ascential also observes the 12 Federal holidays. We also offer 6 weeks of paid Parental Leave.
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan – allows employees to save and
invest for their own retirement on a tax deferred basis. Ascential
matches 50% of the first 6% contributed by employees.
• Medical, Dental and Vision plans with Aetna
• Life Insurance, AD&D, Short and Long-Term Disability - all
eligible employees receive coverage at no cost
• Mental Health – Ascential provides many ways for employees to
access mental health care including an Employee Assistance Program and inpatient, outpatient and virtual care if enrolled in an Aetna medical plan
• US Stock Purchase Plan – all eligible employees can save for a two-year period to buy Ascential shares at a 15% discount
More about WGSN
WGSN is the global authority on consumer trend forecasting.
We help brands around the world create the right products at the right time for tomorrow’s consumer.
Our culture
An inclusive culture is one of our key priorities. We want our people to truly be themselves and thrive. We love having a diverse team of people who bring new ideas, different strengths and perspectives & reflect the global audience we work with.
Why choose us?
At Ascential, diversity, equity and inclusion is core to us. We’re a company built around our people - and we’re committed to supporting each and every one of them to be the best they can be. We love having a diverse team of people who bring new ideas and different strengths and perspectives to Ascential. Our employee-led networks, Ascential Pride, Black in Business and EmPower: An Ascential Women's Initiative, help us to create a place where communities and allies can connect and share experiences. In addition, our Early Talent programmes help grow and foster diverse new talent for our sectors.
We are committed to supporting the environment and sustainability, including ensuring our pension plan defaults to sustainable options and striving to be net zero by 2030.
Recognising great performance is a key part of our culture. Our Awards schemes recognise and reward the brilliant achievements of our people.
We have a truly flexible working environment with a wide range of flexible, hybrid and agile-working arrangements. Conversations about flexible working have always been - and will continue to be - actively encouraged here.
We want to ensure everyone has the opportunity to perform their best when interviewing, so if you require any reasonable adjustments that would make you more comfortable during the process, please let us know so that we can do our best to support you.
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