PhD Graduate Consultant - Physics - 2027

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual profit-related bonus

Virtual shares

Private medical insurance

Life insurance

25 days annual holiday

Enhanced parental leave

Electric car leasing

Cycle-to-work

Interest-free season ticket loan

Local discounts

Job summary

TTP Group is seeking a PhD Graduate Consultant (Physics) to apply scientific expertise within multi-disciplinary project teams, driving product and technology development while engaging with clients to align requirements and expectations.

You will gain broad exposure across industries, develop leadership skills, and grow a strong understanding of how theory translates into commercial products. On-site five days a week with mentorship and opportunities to grow within the firm.

Qualifications

• Deep intellectual curiosity and inventiveness, with a desire to understand how things work at a fundamental level.
• Commercially aware and entrepreneurial, excited by turning breakthrough technologies into real-world products and impact.
• Proactive and self-starting, with a strong sense of personal responsibility and a drive to make things happen.
• Collaborative and emotionally intelligent, able to communicate complex ideas clearly to varied audiences.
• Strategic and systems-minded, able to see the bigger picture and navigate ambiguity while keeping priorities sharp.

Responsibilities

• Lead multi-disciplinary project work and build relationships with clients across industries.
• Develop products and technologies, combining scientific insight with commercial acumen.
• Possibly lead projects and teams, manage client relationships, and represent us at conferences.
• Collaborate across disciplines to deliver impactful solutions and grow client base.

Skills

Curiosity

Entrepreneurial

Proactive

Collaboration

Strategic thinking

Education

2:1 in Physics

PhD in Physics in progress

Job description

• Full-time
• Role Type: Graduate
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Technical Discipline: Physics
• Department: TTP Group

Company Description

TTP is an employee-owned technology and product development consultancy, with a 40-year track record of helping ambitious clients solve complex challenges and bring innovative, commercially successful solutions to market.

We support clients to invent, design, and manufacture impactful products and technologies across a wide range of industries – such as health tech, life science, energy, and communications – and at the intersection of engineering, physical science, and biology.

Working in consultancy, your expertise and creativity will be appreciated and nurtured from day one. You’ll dive straight into contributing to technical projects, solving complex real-world problems, working with clients and being a trusted and integral member of the team.

Job Description

As a PhD Graduate Consultant (Physics) at TTP, your work will combine using your scientific skillset to support multi-disciplinary project teams to invent new products and technologies with utilising your commercial acumen to drive projects forward. You'll demonstrate leadership, build collaborative relationships with clients and ultimately grow a strong understanding of industries we work across.

You will have the opportunity to work on multiple such projects at any one time - through just your first year at TTP your experiences and applications will be vast, and you can expect to develop and expand your understanding of entirely new fields of science and technology rapidly.

Equal to your technical work, you will also develop as a consultant. This means harnessing your entrepreneurial mindset: building an understanding of the markets we work in, engaging directly with clients to present your findings, and proactively ensuring their requirements are fully understood and met. As you gain experience, you will have opportunities to lead projects, build teams, and manage client relationships. You'll also help expand TTP's reach by representing us at conferences in the UK and internationally, building connections, and engaging with new clients to help grow our client base.

We believe growth happens best in a collaborative environment where knowledge is shared freely and curiosity is encouraged – this is why we have the requirement for all staff to work on-site five days a week. You'll receive mentorship and guidance when needed, but also the space and trust to take initiative, explore your interests, and shape your own development. You'll be encouraged to contribute early, take ownership of your work, and collaborate across disciplines to deliver impactful solutions.

Qualifications

Deep intellectual curiosity and inventiveness, with a desire to understandhow things work at a fundamental level. You should have an academicrecord that reflects your capacity for rigorous, first-principlesthinking -a minimum 2:1 in Physics and set to complete your PhD within the next 6 - 12 months

Commercially aware and entrepreneurial, excited by the opportunity to turn breakthrough technologies into real-world products, ventures, and impact.

Proactive and self-starting, with a strong sense of personal responsibility and a drive to make things happen.

Collaborative and emotionally intelligent, able to build trust, influence stakeholders, energise those around you, and communicatecomplex technical ideas with clarity, empathy, and precision, regardless of your audience's background.

Strategic and systems-minded, able to see the bigger picture, anticipate challenges and opportunities while considering the commercial aspects of technology product development, and navigate ambiguity while keeping priorities sharp and focused.

We're looking for candidates who want to impact the industry both commercially and technically; those who don't just solve problems - but who seek them out, thrive on them, and elevate those around them while doing so.

Additional Information

TTP operates from an award-winning campus in green surroundings, just south of Cambridge.

We offer a generous benefits package, including:

• Annual profit-related bonus
• Virtual shares that reward you with a stake in TTP Group's long-term success
• Private medical insurance (for you and your dependants)
• Life insurance (6 x salary)
• 25 days annual holiday
• Enhanced parental leave and flexible return-to-work support
• Electric car leasing and cycle-to-work schemes
• Interest-free season ticket loan
• Local sports and cultural discounts

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