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Managing Consultant - Transport - Data Science

Consultancy.uk
London
5 days ago
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Location: London, United Kingdom

Company: PA Consulting

Job Description

Why consider joining our Transport community as a Data Science Managing Consultant?

  • Join a team where you're trusted to shape your own path, manage your time, and influence real change for our clients and communities.
  • Grow a flexible and unique career within a trust-based, inclusive environment that values excellence, innovation, and curiosity.
  • Play a key role in delivering trusted digital and data-driven solutions that transform the future of transport and mobility.
  • Join other experts within our supportive and collaborative community through knowledge-sharing and peer-level support, coaching and mentoring.
Responsibilities
  • Be part of our management team, helping shape and launch new data science propositions while driving strategic business growth.
  • Lead business development initiatives — building trusted client relationships, owning outcomes, and delivering innovative, high-impact solutions.
  • Help clients structure their thinking to identify key requirements, challenges, and opportunities in a rapidly evolving data landscape.
  • Support your team’s growth through coaching, knowledge-sharing, and creating opportunities for them to thrive.
  • Contribute to thought leadership and market offerings that position PA at the forefront of digital innovation in energy.
Qualifications

Essential requirements

  • 8–10+ years of experience in digital consulting, strategy, or transformation, ideally within the Transport.
  • An established network of senior stakeholders in the energy industry, with a proven ability to build and grow long-term client partnerships.
  • Strong leadership skills with experience managing teams and delivering complex, high-value programmes.
  • Commercial acumen with a track record of developing and selling consulting propositions.
  • Deep understanding of the energy transition and related technologies (e.g. renewables, storage, e-mobility, hydrogen, CCUS).
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence at senior levels.
Benefits
  • Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family
  • 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
  • Generous company pension scheme
  • Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
  • Annual performance-based bonus
  • PA share ownership
  • Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)
Work arrangement

Hybrid Working — our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week, with variation by role or assignment (including up to 5 days per week on client site).

Equal Opportunity

We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief, veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference. We are on a journey towards ensuring our workforce is diverse at all levels and that our firm is representative of the world around us. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

Assessment process

Please note that the interview stages may be subject to change based on the specific requirements of the role.

  • Introductory Call with one of our senior Talent Acquisition partners to explore your background, the opportunity and PA.
  • Round 1: 3x competency interviews, allowing you to meet different members of PA.
  • Final Round: Business plan presentation with PA leaders – you will be given guidance and time to prepare in advance.

We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. See our extensive benefits above.


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