Strategic Marketing Consultant

Agent Marketing Ltd; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 21,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Four day week

Generous holiday allowance

Full Christmas lockdown

Studio bikes

Free parking

Weekly learning and development time

Training opportunities

Mental health support

Team social events

Job summary

Agent Marketing Ltd in the United Kingdom is seeking a strategic marketing consultant who is logical, inquisitive and ambitious to join our growing integrated agency. You’ll work with the strategy and wider Agent team to deliver powerful, integrated campaigns across multiple sectors.

The role emphasizes research-led planning, engaging clients with focus groups and workshops, and turning insights into practical plans.

Qualifications

• At least four years in a marketing manager / research role or equivalent.
• Strong set of values.
• Ability to work as part of a team while contributing your own personality.
• Keen analytical mind with strategic thinking.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Work with the strategy and wider Agent team to deliver Agent’s key objective of making powerfully good work.
• Conduct research to learn landscapes, competitors, audiences and gather key data for strategic plans.
• Lead engagement sessions: focus groups, workshops and interviews to capture client needs.
• Drive innovative ways to co-create and present insights for impact.
• Translate client challenges into end-to-end integrated campaign plans.
• Build client relationships and represent Agent at events.
• Stay informed on regional and national business developments.

Skills

Marketing management

Market research

Analytical thinking

Public speaking

Team collaboration

Job description

We’re looking for a logical, inquisitive and ambitious strategic marketing consultant to join our growing integrated agency.

Hello!

This is Paul, Agent’s CEO.

Firstly, thank you so much for taking the time to have a look at this opportunity to work with us at Agent.

Like any big decisions in life, it’s important to have all the information at hand to help make sure the job choice you make is the right one. I’ve put together some essential ‘must knows’ about us. It goes without saying that I could go on all day here – I promise I won’t. However, if you have any questions, please do give us a call, email, DM or drop by and have a word with one of the team about anything you’d like to know.

We established Agent back in 2006 - it feels like yesterday, and what a journey it has been! In 2026, we have celebrated our 20th anniversary whilst also achieving our biggest year to date. With that momentum behind us, the future has never looked brighter.

We’re a full-service marketing agency. In a nutshell, this means that we deliver a completely integrated offering for our clients – from strategy and creative right through to digital and communications. Our clients are based all over the UK, across a whole range of different sectors and industries; clean growth, tech for good, transport, placemaking etc. We’re in business for good and they are too. We help them share the great stuff they’re doing, whilst encouraging and supporting them to grow their businesses and make an even bigger impact.

We’re a growing agency, and we’re doing our best to do it the right way – sensibly, responsibly and sustainably. We’re very proud to be a B Corp. Our certification reflects our long-standing commitment to the brilliant people around us, the communities we’re part of, and of course, our planet. If we can inspire a few others along the way, even better.

Last count, there are nearly 35 of us in our growing team; strategists, designers, animators, programmers, digital marketers – the lot. We reckon there’ll be about 40 of us by early 2027. We’re a close-knit, passionate bunch that love working together and supporting each other; bringing our individual skills and talents together to create brilliant work that works is what we do best.

Talking about our incredible team...

We want talented, passionate, and committed people to join us, who want to play an active role in what our growth journey looks and feels like (and have a whole load of fun along the way). We want our team to grow with us so that we all do well together. This role, as a strategic marketing consultant, is an important one in helping us achieve our wider growth ambitions as well as delivering even more Powerfully Good Work for our brilliant clients.

We’re proudly based in the North West and our teams work across our studios in Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle and Manchester’s Portland Street. However, we certainly aren’t just limited to the region – our work takes us all over the UK.

Our culture is at the heart of everything we do. It’s incredibly important to us that we shape a workplace where inclusion, support and compassion are second nature. Our values really matter to us; challenge, positivity, and kindness. We’ve shaped them together because they guide how we all behave and work together with our clients and partners. These commitments have earned us a place on The Sunday Times Best Places to Work list not once, but twice. Are we aiming for a third? You can count on it.

We want to work with team members who, like us, really care about doing a great job and making a difference to other people’s lives, the places we call home and, of course, our planet. Our work and the way we work can really make a difference. If this isn’t you, probably best turning back now.

We want to use our business for good and make positive change, which is why we launched our brilliant not-for-profit Agent Academy, to help train and connect the generation of talent into the creative and digital sectors. We’ve helped hundreds of young people get their foot in the door and we’ve got big aspirations to do even more this year. This year Agent Academy turned 12 years old – to say we’re proud of the economic and social impact it has made is an understatement!

Equity, diversity, and inclusion are at the core of everything that we do. We’re not perfect but we know that if we keep listening, learning, and investing we’ll only get better and make more of a difference. We want our agency to continue to be a place where everyone is welcomed, celebrated, and rewarded regardless of race, identity, the postcode we live in, our accents or anything else for that matter; a safe workplace where everyone does well.

We’ve got big growth plans for the future of Agent; they really are exciting. To achieve our dreams, we must have the right people with us to make them happen. If you’re up for it, so are we. That’s it from me for now. The all-important job information follows next. We know that a job description never truly tells the full story of what’s involved in a role. So, if you’re interested you can certainly speak (in confidence and with no duty to then apply) to one of the team who you’ll be likely working with. They can give you the full lowdown on the role and the inside track on Agent – easy, eh?

Paul

CEO
Agent

We’re seeking a critical thinking, curious and driven strategic marketing consultant. Does this sound like you?

About the role…

• Work with the strategy and wider Agent team to deliver Agent’s key objective of making powerfully good work.
• Research – You’ll need to immerse yourself in different worlds to learn about the various landscapes that our clients operate in, understanding what their competitors are up to, what resonates with their audiences and collating key facts, figures, data and insight needed to create the perfect strategic approach.
• Insight and engagement – You thrive on delving deeper into insight. You only ever want your work to have real impact. You’ll be tasked with running engagement sessions for our clients including focus groups, workshops and one-to-one interviews; accurately representing their business needs and gaining the evidence we need to create a strategic approach which will make our clients succeed.
• Innovation - As a part of this role, you’ll be expected to drive forward new ways of running and delivering our strategies. This will include looking at how we co-create work with our clients and our wider team, how we present our work to maximise impact and how we share insights in new and exciting ways.
• Planning – You love nothing more than translating a client challenge into a real-life marketing driven solution. You’ll be responsible for producing integrated campaign plans utilising the services offered by the wider agent team; this will be end-to-end from writing the plan and understanding how we’ll evaluate our work.
• Client relationships and journey – You’ll be able to adapt your style to work with a range of audiences; from the public on the street to leaders in the boardroom, you’ll be able to build a rapport, generate the insight we need and showcase all that Agent has to offer. You understand what the evidence we gather means and how to translate this into valuable, actionable insight. You’ll be able to bring our clients on a journey to understand the insight, and you’ll be able to do this in a down to earth and engaging way. Jargon is not your thing and putting your ideas across clearly in an easy to digest way will build strong relationships and trust with our clients.
• Representing Agent – You’ll be tasked with attending networking events to strengthen the Agent brand and make new connections for the agency.
• Business acumen – You’re committed to staying up to speed and being connected with the latest developments when it comes to the regional and national business landscapes. You know that staying informed and always developing your network allows you to continue to deliver the quality of ideas that succeeds for our clients.

You’ll need to have…

• At least four years in a marketing manager / research role or equivalent.
• A strong set of values.
• The ability to work as part of our strong team, whilst enhancing our culture with your own personality and character.
• A keen analytical mind, combined with a strategic thought process.
• Be able to work proactively and independently but will always ask for feedback and guidance on all development work.
• The ability to work under pressure to deadlines, whilst maintaining an immaculate attention to detail and quality standard.
• A cool, calm and considered working style. You work well under pressure.
• Be able to prioritise workload and deliver against these often, tight deadlines.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills, whilst being able to present and articulate challenging concepts.
• Excellent presentation skills and technique (both written and in terms of presentation delivery).
• The ability to be an excellent team player.
• A commitment to ongoing development. You love to learn and improve your skills and help others to do the same.
• Confidence to represent Agent externally in situations that involve public speaking and delivering training, as necessary.

What’s in it for you:

• Salary of up to £36K based on previous experience
• Four day working week (with no salary reduction) – we’re proud to be a pioneer in this space
• Generous holiday allowance
• Full Christmas lockdown – included above holiday allowance
• Studio bikes available to use
• Free parking at our Liverpool studio
• Weekly learning and development time
• Professional development and training opportunities
• Mental health and wellbeing support
• Team social events (we love our food and drink)

This role is studio-based.

We know that the Ai world is exciting – we absolutely get it. However, what isn’t as thrilling is an Ai generated CV and cover letter. They are, quite frankly, dull. We get them all the time, and they never ever stand out. What does stand out is imagination, creativity, human thought – please do not use these tools if you do choose to apply for this important role. We’re looking for talented people – not robots.