Consultant, Data Science | Digital & Insights, Data Science | Strategic Communications

FTI Consulting; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible benefits

Professional development programs

Wellness initiatives

Job summary

FTI Consulting is looking for a data-driven consultant to join their Strategic Communications practice. The role involves using data science to tackle communication challenges and improve corporate reputation. Candidates should be skilled in Python and have a strong understanding of AI and data analysis. You will collaborate with clients and internal teams to deliver insights, support presentations, and enhance data capabilities. The position offers professional development and flexibility in working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Strong sense of data and AI ethics.
• Experience with digital listening tools.
• Excellent English and strong presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Support projects in audience & influencer insights.
• Use tools to collect and analyse structured and unstructured data.
• Apply statistics and AI to solve communication challenges.

Skills

Python programming

Data analysis

Machine learning

Critical thinking

Data visualization

Education

Degree in a related field

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

Cloud computing platforms

SQL

Job description

FTI Consulting is the world's leading expert‑driven consulting firm. Over the last 40 years, our experts have served as trusted advisors to Fortune 500 companies and leading law and private equity firms, reflecting the ambition, energy, and commitment of our professionals worldwide to make a positive impact.

About The Role

The Strategic Communications practice of FTI Consulting offers specialist expertise across a variety of disciplines and sectors, including financial services, retail and consumer, natural resources, energy, public affairs, real estate, professional services, technology media telecoms (TMT), healthcare and life sciences. The Digital & Insights practice is seeking an intellectually curious and creative consultant to support our growing analytics team across the EMEA region. The industry is undergoing a major transformation due to AI and increased data volume, and our team is positioned at the intersection of communications and data science to provide decision intelligence that shifts public perception.

What You’ll Do

• Support projects in audience & influencer insights, conversation & media analysis, campaign & message performance, event assessment and more.
• Use existing platforms, tools and APIs to collect and analyse structured and unstructured data, including text, images and video.
• Apply statistics, machine learning techniques and AI to solve complex communication and reputation‑management challenges.
• Build tools, dashboards, pipelines or applications to provide new capabilities internally and to clients.
• Detect hidden patterns, identify trends, reveal drivers, predict developments, visualise similarities and differences, and leverage data to deliver actionable insights.
• Collaborate with other experts on the research, planning and development of data‑driven projects.
• Support new business efforts by delivering data‑driven insights to inform our approach.
• Assist in the development of presentations, client decks and pitches to drive organizational results.
• Embed innovation across the firm and increase data maturity, especially around GenAI adoption and NLP developments.

Examples of client challenges the team has solved include:

• Establishing key influencers and narrative risks posing a threat to a global merger.
• Conducting media and social media due diligence before a major deal and CEO change.
• Auditing and optimizing brand presence across consumer‑facing AI systems.

How You’ll Grow

We are committed to investing in your professional development through tailored programs, coaching, trainings, workshops, and certifications, fostering continuous learning and individual skill growth.

What You Will Need To Succeed

We are looking for candidates who want to explore how data science is transforming communications and who can code in Python, use statistics to interrogate data, and build engineering solutions as part of their work.

Basic Qualifications

• Intellectual curiosity and critical thinking.
• Strong sense of data and AI ethics.
• Passion for tackling challenging problems and innovating.
• Ability to distil insights from data and communicate them to non‑technical audiences.
• Programming skills in Python, R or a similar language and ability to apply data science techniques.
• Familiarity with cloud computing platforms, big data frameworks and database technologies.
• Familiarity with data visualisation principles and tools (e.g. Tableau, Power BI).
• Comfortable with writing and using prompts across AI tools such as ChatGPT to produce research outputs.
• Excellent English and strong presentation skills.
• Experience with Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel.

Desirable Qualifications

• Advanced programming skills in Python, including data science libraries such as pandas, numpy or plotly.

Work Experience In

• Consulting or a client‑facing business.
• Quantitative research methods (especially surveys and experiments).
• Media and conversation analysis.

Expertise In

• Natural language processing including LLMs/GenAI.
• Journalism, media, communications, or marketing.
• Digital listening tools (e.g. Brandwatch/Talkwalker).
• Additional language skills.
• Good understanding of software design principles.
• Exposure to version control systems such as GitHub.
• Experience in code and model deployment, including MLOps.
• Scripting experience (e.g., bash) and ability to write SQL queries.

Total Wellbeing

We support the wellbeing of you and your families—physically, emotionally and financially—by offering market‑competitive benefits, including pension, 15 flexible benefits such as health, lifestyle and family‑friendly options, professional development programmes, wellness initiatives, recognition and community volunteering, and flexible/hybrid working arrangements.

About FTI Consulting

FTI Consulting, Inc. is a leading global expert firm for organisations facing crisis and transformation, with more than 8,100 employees in 32 countries and territories as of 31 December 2025. In certain jurisdictions, services are provided through distinct legal entities that are separately capitalised and independently managed. The company generated $3.80 billion in revenues during fiscal year 2025. More information can be found at www.fticonsulting.com.

Equal Opportunity Employment

FTI Consulting is an equal‑opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, protected veteran status, religion, physical or mental disability, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, or any other basis protected by law, ordinance or regulation.

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