ANALYTICAL CONSULTANT (SYSTEMS MAPPING / VISUAL MODELLING)

Spot.; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

5% employer pension contribution

Generous sick pay

Parental leave

Salary sacrifice options

Season ticket loan

Full IT suite including MacBook Pro

Job summary

A leading management consultancy in Oxford seeks an analytically minded consultant to synthesize complex information into clear models. The role involves interviewing clients, collaborating closely with teams, and visualizing insights on a bespoke platform. Ideal candidates have significant client-facing experience, strong structured thinking skills, and a knack for clear communication. The position offers a competitive salary, hybrid working options, and comprehensive benefits including generous leave and a pension contribution.

Qualifications

• Experience in a client-facing and/or analytical role.
• Strong structured thinking and synthesis skills.
• Ability to distil complex ideas into clear models.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Synthesize interviews and datasets into structured system models.
• Analyze qualitative information and identify patterns.
• Collaborate with clients and stakeholders for effective project delivery.

Skills

Client-facing experience

Structured thinking

Excellent verbal and written communication

Visual thinking

Project management

Tools

Adobe Illustrator

Excel

Job description

An analytically minded consultant is needed to join Visual Meaning, a specialist management consultancy based in Oxford, helping organisations make sense of big, complex systems by turning messy information into clear, evidence-based models that teams can share and use.

Visual Meaning combines systems thinking, visual language and data mapping techniques to help clients understand challenges that are big, ambiguous or difficult. Their interactive maps create shared understanding across organisations, bringing clarity to complexity and enabling better conversations and decisions. You will be joining a thoughtful, collaborative team that cares deeply about the quality and impact of its work.

This role sits within the Project Delivery Team and is central to how client work comes to life. You will work closely with colleagues and clients to synthesise interviews, documents and datasets into structured system models, with the visual map as the delivery format hosted on a bespoke platform. It is a hands‑on, client‑facing position suited to someone with around three years experience in consultancy, professional services, research, policy, science, academia, technology, engineering, operations, or a similarly analytical environment.

On a day‑to‑day basis, you will interview clients and (over time) facilitate workshops to understand what needs to be communicated and why. You will analyse interview notes, documents and datasets, extracting insight, identifying patterns and relationships, and shaping how information should be structured. You will then sketch and iterate system maps and visualisations, sometimes live in workshops, responding to feedback in real time.

You will use a shared visual asset library and collaborate with illustrators where needed to produce visuals for our interactive platform, and you may work with structured datasets that link through to visual compositions. Alongside this, you will manage your time and budget, coordinating with colleagues to ensure projects are delivered to a high standard.

This role is for you if you enjoy making sense of complexity: synthesising messy qualitative information, structuring it into coherent models, and explaining systems clearly to diverse stakeholders.

This role is not a brand/marketing design role, a UX/product design role, or a purely graphic design/illustration position.

To qualify:

• Experience in a client-facing and/or analytical role;
• Strong structured thinking (sensemaking, synthesis, problem-structuring);
• The ability to distil complex or ambiguous ideas into clear, coherent models;
• Confidence seeing the bigger picture and reflecting it back to others;
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills;
• Visual thinking and information design capability;
• Comfortable collaborating with diverse stakeholders;
• Project management and client handling experience.

A portfolio of any visual work is welcome but not essential. Experience with vector graphics software such as Adobe Illustrator can be beneficial but is not required. An interest in data and comfort using Excel (or equivalent) is welcome.

In return, you will join a friendly, tight‑knit Oxford team driven by a desire to make a difference. Salary is £45–50k (DOE). Benefits include 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, five percent employer pension contribution, generous sick pay and parental leave, salary sacrifice options, season ticket loan, hybrid working and a full suite of IT equipment including a MacBook Pro.