Skills & Capabilities Consultant

Skills & Capabilities Consultant

Job title: Skills & Capabilities Consultant

Contract type: Freelance

Working: Majority remote, with in-person collaboration as required by client work.

Office location: Central London, with travel as required.

About Flock

Flock is The Marketing Transformation Company. We reimagine and reengineer marketing operating models for some of the world’s leading brands. Through our deep expertise across People, Partners & Procurement, Processes, and Data & Technology, we deliver transformative change that increases marketing effectiveness and drives business growth.

Our consultants are not traditional consultants; they are marketers who consult. We combine lived experience with proprietary technology to solve complex challenges and help marketing organisations build the skills and capabilities they need to succeed.

Flock. Leading Marketing Change.

The Role

We are looking for a talented, experienced and innovative Skills & Capabilities Consultant based in the UK to join our team on a freelance basis.

You will help clients understand their current marketing capabilities, define what they need for the future, and build practical programmes to close the gaps. You will connect business ambition with the skills, behaviours and ways of working that enable marketing teams to perform at their best.

You will provide specialist expertise across exciting and complex client projects, including:

• Developing marketing skills and capability frameworks, with clear proficiency levels and role expectations.
• Assessing current capabilities through interviews, surveys, workshops and existing performance data.
• Identifying skills gaps and prioritising development needs against business and marketing objectives.
• Designing capability development strategies, learning pathways and marketing academies.
• Creating and facilitating engaging workshops and learning experiences for teams and senior leaders.
• Embedding learning through practical application, coaching, peer learning and supporting resources.
• Aligning capability development with roles, career pathways, operating models and performance expectations.
• Reviewing learning partners, platforms and content to recommend fit-for-purpose solutions.
• Establishing measures to track skills development, adoption and business impact.

Our projects are large, complex and global in nature. We want to work with people who are:

• Naturally collaborative and thrive in a flat, flexible organisation.
• Thoughtful communicators who build meaningful relationships across our diverse client and partner community.
• Caring and inclusive leaders committed to learning and recognising our differences as strengths.
• Pragmatic and optimistic, bringing energy and enthusiasm to their work.
• Curious and courageous, using deep business insight to drive innovation.

Skills & Experience Required:

• 12+ years’ relevant experience across marketing, capability development, learning and development, or organisational transformation, with substantial experience building marketing capabilities.
• Proven experience designing and delivering skills and capability programmes for large, complex or global organisations.
• Strong understanding of marketing disciplines and how the capabilities required vary across roles, markets and organisational maturity.
• Experience developing competency frameworks, skills assessments, proficiency definitions and capability gap analyses.
• Ability to translate business strategy and assessment findings into clear, prioritised development plans.
• Experience designing learning pathways and blended programmes that combine formal learning with practical application.
• Strong facilitation skills, with experience engaging senior leaders and adapting delivery for different audiences.
• Understanding of adult learning principles, behaviour change and how to embed new skills into day-to-day work.
• Experience partnering with marketing leaders, HR, learning and development teams, and external specialists.
• An informed understanding of how data, technology and AI are changing marketing roles, skills and learning needs, with the ability to identify and propose AI-powered solutions, such as capability agents, that scale learning programmes, support learning in the flow of work and embed new skills and behaviours across client organisations.
• Ability to evaluate programme effectiveness through skills progression, application, performance and business outcomes.
• Experience managing project scopes, budgets, timelines and delivery partners.
• Experience across multiple advertiser categories and sectors.
• Excellent analytical, communication and presentation skills.
• Detail-oriented and highly organised, with the ability to work independently and exercise sound judgement.
• Professional demeanour with a proven ability to quickly build trusted, senior-level client relationships.

Working With Flock

At Flock, we pride ourselves on being collaborative, entrepreneurial and rigorous. Freelancers are an essential part of our company and are given the same high level of trust, responsibility and support as our core team.
You’ll join multidisciplinary, international project teams working with some of the world’s leading brands across automotive, FMCG, retail, tech and more. You will help clients build lasting capabilities that support their transformation and improve marketing performance.

How to Apply

If this sounds like you and you would like to work on exciting projects with global brands, please email your CV to careers@Flock-associates.com.

Tell us about yourself, the skills and capability programmes you have designed or delivered, the projects and sectors you have worked in, and why you are interested in joining Flock as a freelance consultant.

If your experience is a fit for upcoming projects, we will arrange a call to discuss joining our freelancer network.