Management Consultant

Mott MacDonald; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Annual bonus scheme

Flexible benefits

Employee ownership

Job summary

Mott MacDonald is seeking a Consultant in its strategic advisory business to help clients navigate complex challenges, unlock opportunities, and deliver lasting value beyond capital project delivery. You will join a dynamic, diverse team that values trust, transparency, and inclusion, with some travel and hybrid working across UK offices.

As a Consultant you will deliver measurable impact for clients through change and transformation initiatives, while developing your expertise and progressing

Qualifications

• Degree or postgraduate qualification relevant to consultancy.
• Experience in business case, transformation, or digital advisory is desirable.
• Strong numerical skills and commercial awareness.

Responsibilities

• Deliver measurable value for clients in transformation engagements.
• Lead and contribute to multiple medium complexity assignments.
• Develop client documentation and proposals; support scoping and resourcing.

Skills

Change management

Commercial awareness

Team coaching

Communication

Stakeholder management

Education

Relevant degree or postgraduate qualification

Job description

Location/s:

Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Leeds, Manchester and London; UK

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee‑owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

About The Business Unit

Mott MacDonald’s Advisory and Programme Delivery(APD) unit delivers both project, programme & commercial management (PPCM) services and advisory solutions across the built environment, defence, energy, water, environmental, transportation, health and care sectors.

We deliver tailored solutions that directly address our clients’ key challenges, combining our world‑leading project expertise with unrivalled programme delivery capabilities and advisory services.

APD delivers services to projects ranging in scale and complexity up to £20bn, through the technical disciplines of programme management, project management, project controls, scheduling, cost management, estimating, infrastructure finance, management consulting, digital consulting and education, health and care management.

Overview Of The Role

Are you a Consultant looking for a new venture? Interested in joining a leading award winning multi‑disciplinary consultancy? Looking to join a team invested in evolving our services to deliver true value to our clients in rapidly changing markets?

At Mott MacDonald, we believe in the power of people, purpose and partnership to drive meaningful transformation. As a management consultant in our strategic advisory business you’ll help our clients navigate complex challenges, unlock opportunities, and deliver lasting value - beyond capital project delivery.

You’ll be part of a dynamic, diverse, and ambitious team that values trust, transparency, and inclusion. You’ll be part of the legacy and heritage of Mott Macdonald, one of the most globally respected Engineering Consultancies. We’re committed to creating fulfilling careers, where everyone has equal opportunity to grow, contribute, and thrive. You will have the opportunity to make a difference; learn more about our Purpose and the difference we can make, particularly as an employee owned company.

As a Consultant, you will be responsible for delivering measurable value for our clients. We anticipate most commissions to be undertaken in client facing roles with other roles to support internal assignments.

Our vision is “To deliver value for society” through our Transformation & Business Change advisory services to our clients, utilising our expertise in business case development, innovation management, business change, collaboration, digital, organisational design and operational improvement.

While our management consultancy teams are primarily based in London, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Leeds and Manchester , we identify the right individuals for the right projects. Therefore, consultant colleagues are expected to travel with some time spent staying away from home to develop their career and experience.

Experience and capability requirements:

• Leads and delivers multiple, medium complexity Change and Transformation assignments without supervision and fully contributes technically and functionally, individually and in teams
• Leads management and delivery of low to medium complexity assignments without supervision or work packages of more complex projects
• Authors and starting to quality assure key client documentation such as proposals; initiative scoping, planning and resourcing; progress reports; outcome reports etc
• Conducts analysis to evidence gaps identified against good practice and starting to provide related advice direct to clients e.g., recommendations for next steps, what the future could / should look like
• Demonstrates commercial awareness ranging from involvement in commercial management of projects (resourcing, fees, invoicing etc) and business development (opportunity identification, proposal creation, approach design).
• Growing demonstration of Management consultancy Foundational Values in practice: Eminence, Growth mindset, Integrity and trust, Inclusivity, Courage of convictions, Determination, Innovation and creativity, Agility, Honesty and transparency, Ethics
• Engage in the design, development and adoption of digital tools and techniques to evolve how consultancy services are delivered
• Demonstrates emotional and cultural intelligence skills, understands own emotions and those of others
• Aware of styles and methods of communication and matching these to the requirements of different audiences
• Understanding and application of appropriate process techniques, tools, methodologies and frameworks
• Participates in Practice (technical capability) development through 1:1 and / or group coaching / training
• Guides and supports colleagues, contributing to a team environment
• Working towards intermediate accredited status (with Chartered Management Consultant or equivalent)

Essential:

• Relevant degree or postgraduate qualification, or equivalent professional experience
• Other degree qualifications will be considered if experience is aligned with our services
• Significant experience working within one or more of our teams’ service lines: business case, innovation management, business change and transformation, organisational design, digital transformation and business improvement
• Ability to work in teams and with a wide range of individuals, awareness of P3M, strong numerical skills and commercial awareness

Desirable:

• Associate or Chartered Management Consultant (AChMC/ChMC)
• Any of the following qualifications or certifications: project management, programme management, innovation, lean, change management and business cases
• Knowledge the UK’s major infrastructure investment plans

Security clearance is desirable but not essential

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.

Agile working

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well‑being, flexibility, and trust.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at [e-mail] and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Employee Ownership

• Our employee ownership model means no external investors, just us, creating a culture of shared success.
• Our employees have a stake and a voice in our business, giving them a direct connection to our success through our personal and group performance bonuses.
• As your career grows, so does your stake, recognizing your long‑term impact and contribution.
• Your voice matters, with the opportunity to connect directly with senior leadership through formal channels to help shape our future.
• For our senior roles you will have a direct pathway towards ownership from day one.

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

Lifestyle

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high‑street retailers.

Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.

Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self‑development options.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.