Lead Consultant

Role overview

Seniority: Junior-Mid

Location: London

Salary range: £80,000 - £90,000/annum + other benefits

Focus on design and delivery of our unforgettable interactive sprints and workshops.

Cracking tough problems, innovating and figuring out how to win in fast changing markets should be invigorating, creative, collaborative and lead to action. The best bit about work.

But corporates and consultants manage to squeeze the life out of it. PowerPoint. Tell us one interesting fact about yourself. Flipchart. Predictable sticky note exercises. Yawn. 

We’re on a mission to change that. The mindset and behaviours of successful entrepreneurs are the key. Come and join us!

About OneLeap

We are a boutique consultancy that believes entrepreneurship is not just for start-ups. It can be powerful in corporate settings too, offering new ways to crack the toughest problems, innovate more effectively, accelerate execution and supercharge team engagement. 

We have a radically different approach to consulting with two unique pillars:

1. An extensive community of successful entrepreneurs (1,000+ from 35 countries) who become part of our project teams at key moments of impact.

2. An experience-led approach, revolving around powerful and imaginative experiences that take clients out of their comfort zone to land unforgettable lessons.

We’ve helped some of the world’s largest companies, including Tesco, ExxonMobil and Credit Suisse, and work alongside some of the most fascinating and inspiring entrepreneurs.

Operating in the overlap between entrepreneurship and large corporates creates a unique environment for multi-dimensional high performers–people who want both the impact of working with FTSE 100 / Fortune 500 leaders and the creativity and why not? mentality of the entrepreneurial world. All within an environment that is itself highly entrepreneurial and feels like a start-up.

WORKING AT ONELEAP

We have a high-standards, low-formality culture, and live daily our values of generosity, audacity, imagination and tenacity. We all prefer working together, but have a mature and flexible approach to working remotely when necessary, and a general expectation of working from home on “focus Thursdays”.

We pay competitive compensation as salary without a contingent component, offer six weeks annual holiday (plus bank holidays), an attractive annual external training budget, bike-to-work scheme and fully subsidized travel card for zones 1 and 2.

This is a London office role, but we operate globally (mostly virtually of late, but that will change). We are able to sponsor visas for qualified candidates. Part of operating globally is travel and variable hours, although much less than most consultancies.

THIS ROLE IN SUMMARY

• Junior-to-mid level Engagement Manager-equivalent in OneLeap’s London office

• Expected to be the client lead on medium-sized engagements (with support)

• A generalist role, but with spikes in the area of creating extraordinary live experiences with clients: workshops, co-creation and facilitation, through both excellent preparation and compelling in-room leadership

• You are excited by influencing people to change themselves and their organizations despite the obstacles they face, in entrepreneurial terms: “making a way”

• You might be a junior manager in a top consulting firm who “gets” strategy / transformation / etc but wants to double down on the live, interactive, creative parts of the job

• On the other hand, you might have developed those skills in a different environment (perhaps developing intrapreneurship or digital product inside a large company) and are eager to apply them in a consulting environment with greater scope for real impact at the exec level

• You will count your best days at work as those when you enable high impact in-room discussions, creativity and decisions, while thinking on your feet, orchestrating a unique experience and being responsive in demanding situations

• You’ll also know those live eureka moments don’t just happen, and enjoy the weeks of rigorous preparation that go into a moment of inspiration

• You won’t be expected to immediately be an expert in the full sweep of what OneLeap does, but you should be excited by the prospect of learning the parts that are unfamiliar - whether that’s business model innovation, the principles of entrepreneurship, design thinking, or something else

A TYPICAL WEEK IN THE FIRST 6 MONTHS WILL INVOLVE

• Planning and leading live workshops / sprints that create real change. Maybe it’s a sprint to help country managers understand entrepreneurial leadership by launching a new product in five days. Or a series of 1-day workshops for senior leaders to rapidly learn about customer trends in five new markets. Or something else completely.

• Owning the client relationship. Be the point person to ensure the client knows everything is under control and they are getting true value and results from working with OneLeap.

• Managing 1-3 more junior team members to deliver the project. And working with the directors on planning/vision and our head of ops to deliver unique experiences.

• Rapidly getting up to speed with the full OneLeap toolkit. We actively encourage the develop of individual strengths, but a solid working knowledge of our full body of theory and practice is a must-have for further advancement.

YOUR PROGRESSION

Over time you will attend internal and external training, be exposed to a wide variety of client engagement and develop skills across our lead strategist toolbox. You will be expected to cultivate your individual spikes and rapidly become the go-to person in that area, while also developing fluency across our core development areas:

• Creativity and problem solving. Structure ambiguous and complex problems for the team and orchestrate diverse skill sets to unlock brilliant and innovative solutions.

• Project management. Maintain a workplan that maximises output while providing space for creativity and sustaining the capacity, energy and focus of the team effectively.

• Knowledge. Combine acumen across all of our areas with a developing expertise in one or two, developing a sophisticated grasp of a broad body of theory and routinely selecting powerful tools to apply to real challenges.

• Client experience. Collaborating with clients to understand and shape their professional and personal goals and enabling them to deliver results through entrepreneurial approaches.

• Business building. Start to contribute to team development, opening opportunities and codifying/creating new IP.

• Culture. Lead and inspire teams to deliver our best work and work entrepreneurially with multidisciplinary teams.

SELECTION PROCESS

We aim to provide an opportunity for candidates to demonstrate their potential. This is a vital role for us, so our process is multi-faceted, but we will act quickly and provide rapid feedback.

1. We will read cover emails/letters to get a sense of motivation and interests, and your CV for evidence of performance, potential and experience. 

2. There will be five selection stages, with only successful candidates advancing at each stage. Further information will be provided ahead of each stage.

   1. 1 x 30 minute background and role detail. This is mostly to ensure that you understand the role and company in sufficient detail

   2. A short writing exercise.

   3. 1 x 60 minute experience and fit interview

   4. 1 x 90 minute presentation in response to a set challenge (2-3 hours prep max)

   5. 1 x 30 minute fit interview with founder/office head

Interested? To apply, please email your CV and a cover letter to opportunities@oneleap.com.

No recruiters or agencies, please.