Associate Director - Strategy Consulting (AI Practice)

Please note before applying, this is an advisory / management consulting role, we are not looking for backgrounds in data science or technology delivery. The ideal candidate will have 7 - 9 years’ experience at a top tier management consultancy working within their strategy consulting division specifically.

You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply.

The Opportunity

The role of our AI practice is to deliver AI Advisory projects to our existing clients. The majority of your time will be spent shaping and delivering client work with oversight from senior leadership.

Key responsibilities:

Consultancy work

• Deliver strategy consultancy projects for clients, focused on AI

• Project work may include: identifying opportunities to drive consumer/business value with AI, prioritising AI initiatives, quantitative and qualitative research (e.g. AI market & trends research, competitor assessments, customer research) amongst other strategic deliverables

• Create high-quality client-facing deliverables such as slide packs, workshops, internal pitch decks, business cases (from research to creation and presentation)

• Shape how we will approach and deliver this work (e.g. interpreting client challenges into briefs, identifying activities required to deliver)

Team leadership & development

• Oversee, shape and quality assess the team’s outputs, ensuring clear, insightful and commercially sound recommendations

• Once settled in role, take on direct line management of more junior team members (1 - 2 reports in year 1)

About you:

• You are passionate about AI and its impact on business and society. You actively use AI tools, stay on top of AI industry trends, and are motivated to build your career and skills in this space.

• You have 7 - 9 years of management consulting experience, specifically in the delivery of advisory work (please note, we do not typically do any AI implementation so are not looking for backgrounds in data, data science, engineering, etc - although exposure to these fields is not a detriment)

• You have experience in delivering strategic recommendations (within or outside of AI). Experience across the following would be relevant/useful: corporate & digital strategy, CX & innovation strategy, marketing strategy, business transformation. Note, we do not require deep technical expertise for these roles.

• You have excellent general business acumen, exceptional problem solving skills, and outstanding verbal and written communication skills (in English)

• You are driven, responsible, highly proactive and self directed…

• …and highly flexible, relaxed and resilient in fast-paced, highly changeable environments - we’re a small business working in an industry that’s moving at a rate of knots

• You are low-ego and collaborative. You understand that priorities shift, work evolves or changes direction, and feedback is an opportunity to improve. You seek input, stay curious, and see learning as part of the job - with a focus on improving rather than being right.

Location:

Candidates must be comfortable working remotely and, from 2026, from our London office. The role also requires flexibility to travel internationally and to take calls outside standard UK hours when necessary.

We are not able to offer sponsorship at this time.