Data Consultant

GHD Advisory Insights & Analytics team - Data Consultant

Join a global profession services leader, committed to solving the world’s biggest challenges across energy, transport, utilities and urbanisation.

We are seeking curious minds with a passion for data-driven problem solving to join and shape our growing Data & Insights team. You will support the delivery of innovative solutions across sectors such as rail, highways, telecoms, and future energy, delivering tangible impacts for generations to come.

You’ll have the freedom to explore your interests across diverse projects and sectors, with support and encouragement to develop your skills and experience. We embrace a start-up mentality within a global corporate framework, encouraging autonomous decision making, fresh ideas and agile thinking. Our team structure fosters collaboration and ensures every member feels supported, empowering you to meaningfully contribute to our continuously growing and improving team.

What we do

We help our clients unlock the full potential of their data by combining management and analytical expertise with cutting-edge technology solutions. Our services include:

Strategic Modelling: Working alongside industry experts in the built and natural environment, we create models and simulations to understand and forecast complex scenarios, such as England’s transition to a more sustainable agricultural system.

Analytical Data Management: We bring the latest in cloud, software, and data best practices to our clients to develop clean and expressive datasets, tightly aligned to their goals and ambitions.

Digital Asset Management: We combine our knowledge of the infrastructure lifecycle across industries like water, power, rail, and highways, and our expertise in data-driven insights to help our clients make decisions about the stewardship of their assets.

Location Intelligence: We develop world-class solutions in mobility, logistics and GIS using high-volume data sources such as mobile network data. For example, analysing visitor behaviour at major venues and identifying changes in national travel patterns.

Your responsibilities:

Stakeholder Engagement & Communication

• Pro-actively engaging with stakeholders to gather information, determine root causes of issues, and develop strong relationships.

• Clear and concise presentation of results and concepts through a variety of mediums, tailoring the level of technical content to the audience.

• Articulating your views and honest perspectives through active listening and engaged participation.

Technical Leadership & Project Delivery

• Providing technical project delivery by designing solutions, writing code, and conducting analysis.

• Using data and management techniques to improve operational performance.

• Providing technical feedback and identifying opportunities to use data to derive insights and shape technical solutions.

• Acting as Project Manager on appropriate projects.

Team & Business Development

• Actively contributing to team growth activities and operational tasks.

• Identifying and pursuing opportunities and new work that benefit clients, including providing input to tenders and bids.

Continuous Learning & Growth

• Seek out on-the-job and external training opportunities to improve your technical and management capabilities, with support from the team.

• Taking a pro-active role in developing the skills of team members.

About you

We would love to hear from you if you can bring proven, demonstrable previous experience in any of the above areas. As a consulting role, we are looking for effective problem solvers, leaders, and communicators.

Personal Characteristics

• You are an effective collaborator and communicator who can work well with a range of clients.

• You are inquisitive and eager to improve your skillset.

• You are comfortable being part of a growing team that is building a business.

• You are an independent thinker who can present their own ideas even when challenging the norm.

• You have a collaborative working style and understand the importance of diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

• You are an analytical thinker who can break down complex problems into manageable chunks.

Previous Experience

Due to the diversity of our projects, a range of skills and experience is beneficial to this role. An ideal candidate will demonstrate proven experience in any combination of the following, with particular emphasis on strong technical capabilities:

Technical Capabilities

• Strong data manipulation and analysis skills.

• Programming using Python and SQL (additional languages are a benefit).

• Dashboarding using Tableau and/or Power BI and data visualisation using common data science packages (Matplotlib, Seaborn, kepler.gl, etc.)

• Understanding of version control (preferably through Git).

• Experience in contributing to and improving technical playbooks.

• Solid knowledge of statistical methods and concepts.

Management Capabilities

• Business acumen including account management, relationship building, and commercial awareness.

• Management consulting expertise, including methodologies, frameworks, tools, and approaches to solve business problems.

• Business Analytics experience, using data and statistics to derive insights and make informed decisions.

• Experience in Agile project management and effective implementation of Agile principles.

• Clear and detailed client communication, including presentation and storytelling of technical concepts.

About GHD

Being the best that we can be is in our culture.

We are a team of smart, innovative, and creative problem solvers. In our employee-owned company, everything feels like it matters more. Challenge us and help us come up with new solutions to ensure water, energy and urbanisation are made sustainable for generations to come.

Our Commitment to you

Commitment is a powerful word that defines how we do business, how we serve our clients and how we care for one another. We will support your needs by giving you the tools, training and support to do your best work and then recognise your achievements. We will set your curiosity free to allow brilliant minds to do their best work. We will invest in new ideas, removing barriers where we can. Finally, we will encourage you to collaborate with thousands of diverse people across our global business.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion lies at the heart of our team culture. We operate a flat intellectual hierarchy meaning every voice is heard and has genuine influence. We believe deeply in diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin, and experience, and we recognise the value this brings our collective team approach to solving challenging client problems. Our internal working groups, such as GHD Young Professionals, Pride Alliance and Women in GHD (WING), enable every employee to shape the conversation and help implement initiatives to make GHD a better place to work for all.

Inclusion is hugely important to us, and we want to ensure every team member can balance work around their unique personal circumstances. In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a wider variety of benefits to support you, including 25 days paid leave with opportunity to purchase additional leave, matched pension contributions and family-friendly flexible working. As an employee-owned business, you will have the opportunity to obtain shares in GHD, empowering you to shape and share the company’s long-term success. We will advocate for your professional development and provide you with technical development opportunities and mentoring programmes to help you grow and improve your abilities. We actively promote inclusion and equity focussed initiatives, with the example of our STEMAZING partnership, which offers STEM outreach programmes for women. We are always looking to improve the way we collaborate, communicate and operate as a team through regular socials, team strategy days and internal initiatives.

Working Location

This is a hybrid role, with an expectation of an average of 3 days per week working at our central London office.

What next?

We are keen to hear about your motivation for joining the Data & Insights team. If you are interested in this position, please upload your CV along with a 200-word statement outlining what draws you to our work applying data-driven approaches within the built environment.

If shortlisted, our interview approach is a two-way learning experience. We will give you access to the leadership team and technical leads throughout the application process.

For more information about GHD’s Strategic Data & Insight offering, case studies and bios of selected team members, visit our page at:

https://www.ghd.com/en/expertise/strategic-insights.aspx