Graduate Consultant

Sewell Group; Manchester; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 26,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Bonus

Holiday entitlement

Employee Ownership

Pension

Staff discounts

Bike to Work

Technology Scheme

Parental Leave

Sickness Absence

Job summary

Sewell Group is offering a graduate role in the Sewell Advisory consultancy, based at our Manchester office. You will work on customer facing projects across health, local authority and education sectors, building communication and technical skills from day one.

We provide a personalised induction, regular reviews, and opportunities to develop with training and professional accreditation sponsorship (e.g. RICS, CIOB).

Qualifications

• Pursuing or holding a degree in built environment, business, finance, economics or humanities.
• Excellent listening and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Our graduates are involved in customer facing projects from the start and build communication and technical skills on a variety of commissions.
• You will work across all areas of Sewell Advisory, discovering where your interests and strengths fit before specialising later in your career.

Skills

Excellent communication

Organisation

Teamwork

Time management

Adaptability to new technology

Confidentiality

Attention to detail

UK driving licence

Education

Degree related to built environment / business / finance / economics / humanities

Job description

Location: At one of our offices based in either Hull, Leeds , Manchester or Stockton-on-Tees

Hours: 8.30am-5.00pm, Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week

Salary: £25,000 - £26,000 per annum

Visa Sponsorship: This position does not meet the UK Home Office sponsorship requirements (specifically, financial thresholds). Therefore, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship.

Closing Date: 20 November 2026

Group Interview Dates: 16 & 17 December 2026

2nd stage Interview Dates: W/c 4 January 2027

Role Overview

As the consultancy division within the business, Sewell Advisory is an industry leader in delivering strategic estates advice, development & project management and operational management to clients across the UK.

We’re a friendly, approachable team, and whilst our backgrounds vary, the one thing that’s consistent is our passion for what we do. Our collective vision is to be the consultant partner of choice to our customers and our mission is to achieve excellence in our advice and our solutions, delivering long‑term added value to public services.

Our customers are predominantly across the health, local authority and education sectors, helping GPs, health centres. hospitals, Councils, schools, colleges and universities to identify creative solutions to their estate and service delivery-related challenges.

Role Responsibilities

Our graduates are involved in customer facing projects from the start, giving them the opportunity to build both their communication and technical skills on a variety of commissions, as well as deepening their understanding of the markets we operate within.

If successful, you will work across all areas of our collective businesses, allowing you the time to discover where your interests and skills best fit, before choosing to specialise later in your career if you so wish.

Why Start Your Career With Us?

• We will provide you with a personalised induction programme, intended to make sure that by the end of 90 days you have been introduced to all aspects of our business, our vision and values, the wider group structure and your role – as well as getting to know your new colleagues
• You will take part in regular reviews to track your development and progress and identify opportunities for further training and improvement to help you on your career path
• We offer flexibility and autonomy in the direction of your career, with the opportunity to gain knowledge and experience across our varied service offer
• We will support your further professional development, including providing Better Business Cases and Project Management specific training and then additional sponsorship to pursue your own chosen professional accreditation (e.g. RICS, APM, CIOB)
• We have a variety of Internal training and development opportunities, including leadership workshops, personal development skills, management training and ‘learning lunches’
• Our wider group structure enables us to offer coaching and mentoring with a diverse group of business leaders
• Be part of a peer‑to‑peer support network with other graduates and juniors across the Sewell Group
• We enable your access to local networking events through our corporate membership of Marketing Humber Bondholders and other similar organisations

To learn more about the Sewell Group and Sewell Advisory, please follow the link below:

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As well as exhibiting a polite and approachable attitude, plenty of energy, initiative, professionalism, commitment and a strong team ethos, the suitable person will have the following:

Essential

• Hold or be studying towards a formal degree qualification linked to the built environment, business, finance, economics or humanities
• Promote and present a professional personal and company brand in all dealings
• Excellent listening and communication skills
• Excellent organisation skills with the ability to prioritise tasks accordingly, meet set deadlines and work with multiple ongoing tasks
• The ability to work as a team member in a busy working environment, but also the ability to work unsupervised at times
• The ability to learn and work with new technology and software
• Have effective and efficient time management skills
• Awareness of the importance of confidentiality
• Have good attention to detail and a high level of accuracy
• Be able to implement new and improved ways of working
• Hold a full, valid UK driving licence and own transport

Desirable

• Previous working experience in a consultancy, estates or property related role
• Experience working in or with the public sector

Sewell Group and Sewell Advisory are equal opportunities employers, recruiting within the guidelines of the Equality Act 2010. We are committed to the promotion of diversity and equal opportunity, as an employer and in the delivery of our products and services.

As a committed safe employer, an enhanced DBS (criminal record) check will be carried out for the successful candidate of this role.

• Annual Bonus opportunity

• 25 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays), rising with length of service to 30 days
• Being a Co‑Owner of Sewell Estates, learn more here: Employee Ownership - Sewell Group (sewell-group.co.uk)
• Auto Enrolment pension
• Staff discounts
• High Street & Retail discount schemes
• Bike 2 Work Scheme
• Technology Scheme
• Paid Parental Leave and Sickness Absence schemes

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