Managing Consultant - Transport - Data Science

PA Consulting; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in the UK is seeking a Data Science Managing Consultant to shape the path of innovative data-driven solutions in the Transport sector. You will leverage your leadership skills and client relationships to drive strategic business growth. This position offers opportunities for professional growth in a diverse and inclusive environment that values ingenuity and collaboration.

Benefits

Health and lifestyle perks

25 days annual leave

Generous company pension scheme

Annual performance-based bonus

Qualifications

• 8-10+ years of experience in digital consulting, strategy, or transformation, ideally within the Transport.
• Established network of senior stakeholders in the Transport industry.
• Strong leadership skills with experience managing teams.

Responsibilities

• Shape and launch new data science propositions while driving strategic business growth.
• Lead business development initiatives and build trusted client relationships.
• Support your team’s growth through coaching and knowledge-sharing.

Skills

Leadership skills

Communication skills

Stakeholder engagement

Commercial acumen

Job description

Responsibilities

• Introductory Call with one of our senior Talent Acquisition partners to explore your background, the opportunity and PA.
• Round 1: 3x competency interviews, allowing you to meet different members of PA.
• Final Round: Business plan presentation with PA leaders - you will be given guidance and time to prepare in advance.
• An established network of senior stakeholders in the Transport industry, with a proven ability to build and grow long-term client partnerships.
• Strong leadership skills with experience managing teams and delivering complex, high-value programmes.
• Commercial acumen with a track record of developing and selling consulting propositions.
• Deep understanding of the Transport and related technologies.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence at senior levels.

Company Description

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results. We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport. Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

What you can expect

• Join our Transport community as a Data Science Managing Consultant to shape your own path, manage your time, and influence real change for our clients and communities.
• Grow a flexible and unique career within a trust-based culture that values excellence, innovation, and curiosity.
• Play a key role in delivering trusted digital and data-driven solutions that transform the future of energy and mobility.
• Join other experts within our supportive and collaborative community through knowledge-sharing and peer-level support, coaching and mentoring.

What you can expect to do

• Be part of our management team, helping shape and launch new data science propositions while driving strategic business growth.
• Lead business development initiatives – building trusted client relationships, owning outcomes, and delivering innovative, high-impact solutions.
• Help clients structure their thinking to identify key requirements, challenges, and opportunities in a rapidly evolving data landscape.
• Support your team’s growth through coaching, knowledge-sharing, and creating opportunities for them to thrive.
• Be part of an environment that deeply values its core principles and contributes to thought leadership and market offerings that position PA at the forefront of digital innovation in energy.

Qualifications

Essential requirements

• 8-10+ years of experience in digital consulting, strategy, or transformation, ideally within the Transport.
• An established network of senior stakeholders in the Transport industry, with a proven ability to build and grow long-term client partnerships.
• Strong leadership skills with experience managing teams and delivering complex, high-value programmes.
• Commercial acumen with a track record of developing and selling consulting propositions.
• Deep understanding of the Transport and related technologies.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence at senior levels.

Life at PA

Life At PA encompasses our peoples’ experience at PA. It’s about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose-led meaningful work. We believe diversity fuels ingenuity. Diversity of thought brings exciting perspectives; diversity of experience brings a wealth of knowledge, and diversity of skills brings the tools we need. When we bring people together with diverse backgrounds, identities, and minds, embracing that difference through an inclusive culture where our people thrive, we unleash the power of diversity - bringing ingenuity to life. Find out more about Life at PA. We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
• Generous company pension scheme
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
• Annual performance-based bonus
• PA share ownership
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)