Marketing & Advertising Consultant - JO-2511-26766-6744 Job at Chicago Staffing

Marketing & Advertising Consultant Or Senior Consultant

Location: Local Market Office (Hybrid)

Capability: Customer Experience - Marketing & Advertising

Level: Consultant Or Senior Consultant

The Opportunity

As part of Slalom's Marketing & Advertising team, you will help clients reimagine how they plan, personalize, measure, and orchestrate their sales, marketing, advertising, and loyalty efforts. You'll work hands-on across strategies for marketing, sales, and advertising, customer data, personalization, commerce, campaign operations, measurement, and MarTech - bringing together structured problem solving, data storytelling, and modern marketing platforms to drive meaningful client impact. You'll have the opportunity to deepen your craft, stretch into new skill areas, and contribute to the rapid evolution of modern marketing capabilities including AI/GenAI, agentic marketing, identity resolution, measurement modernization, and next-generation marketing technologies.

What You'll Do

Client Delivery & Impact

Deliver high-quality work products that translate complex marketing, advertising, sales, customer, and data challenges into clear insights, frameworks, or activation plans. Conduct assessments of marketing capabilities, operating models, customer journeys, customer data and MarTech/AdTech ecosystems to identify opportunities for improvement. Support or lead the design of future-state capabilities including personalization, customer data strategy, identity resolution, creative/campaign operations, content supply chain, or measurement frameworks. Develop customer and marketing data strategies to unlock growth potential, customer value and business results. Develop actionable roadmaps, requirements, and implementation plans across platforms such as CDPs, CRM, marketing automation, journey orchestration, marketing attribution, analytics, or AI/GenAI solutions. Synthesize information across business, data, technology, and creative disciplines to inform well-reasoned recommendations and tradeoffs. Apply Slalom and industry best practices to ensure delivery excellence and measurable outcomes.

Communication & Influence

Create high-quality written, visual, and verbal communications that simplify complexity and support decision-making. Tailor communication for diverse audiences and lead or support discussions to build clarity and alignment. Use inclusive communication and active listening to guide teams toward productive collaboration.

Relationship Building & Leadership

Build trust with client teams through empathy, credibility, and consistent delivery. Collaborate with cross-functional practitioners-design, engineering, data, analytics, media, and strategy-to deliver integrated solutions. Proactively identify risks, surface issues, and co-create solutions that maintain momentum and strengthen partnerships.

Measurement, Optimization & Value Creation

Support or lead the development of measurement frameworks, marketing analytics, attribution approaches, experimentation plans, and KPI alignment. Highlight tangible marketing outcomes such as revenue lift, efficiency gains, improved engagement, or operational impact. Define qualitative and quantitative success measures and incorporate them into delivery. Leverage emerging technologies, including AI and AI agents, to enhance analysis, automation, and delivery efficiency.

Innovation, Thought Leadership & Solution Building

Contribute to Slalom playbooks, frameworks, perspectives, and accelerators across marketing transformation, sales strategy, advertising, customer data, loyalty, and MarTech. Stay current with industry trends across marketing, sales, advertising, commerce, and loyalty. Bring new methods and creative solutioning into project and practice work.

Growth, Culture, and Community

Engage in Slalom's culture by building relationships across capability, geography, and industry teams. Support practice growth through participation in internal initiatives, capability-building, mentoring, and community activities. Contribute to a diverse, inclusive, and psychologically safe environment where team members can succeed. Manage personal productivity, proactively upskill, and pursue growth based on feedback, reflection, and career aspirations.

Business Development & Slalom Growth

Identify and surface opportunities within delivery environments to support client growth and account strategy. Participate or lead proposal development, solutioning, and SOW creation as appropriate.