Principal Consultant - Aviation

PA Consulting; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking talented individuals to join their Aviation team. This role offers the chance to work with a variety of clients, driving innovation and operational excellence in the aviation sector. Ideal candidates will bring relevant experience and exceptional consulting skills to help shape the future of aviation.

Benefits

Private healthcare for you and your family

25 days annual leave plus additional days

Generous company pension scheme

Involvement in community initiatives

Annual performance-based bonus

PA share ownership program

Tax-efficient benefits

Qualifications

• Demonstrated relevant experience in aviation consulting.
• Understanding of airline/airport operations.
• Experience selling professional services in aviation.

Responsibilities

• Help clients with strategy, restructuring, and delivering investment value.
• Drive operational excellence and improve service efficiency.
• Deliver technology-enabled asset management and ensure safety.

Skills

Problem-solving

Client relationship management

Consulting skills

Operational efficiency

Job description

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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 use of technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

An innovation and transformation consultancy, we are over 4000 specialists in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport. Our people are strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers and technologists.

We operate globally from offices across the UK, US, Netherlands and Nordics.

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Job Description

Flexible working - We operate in a hybrid working environment where we come into a client site or office, at least 2-3 days per week. This role will be aligned to our London office based in Victoria.

Our Aviation team make a real difference for our clients. We offer clients industry expertise and an innovative mindset to help seize opportunities and harness disruption. We operate globally, driving commercial and operational advantage for airlines and airports, MROs, air navigation service providers, regulators, investors, and governments.

You will have opportunity to help clients with:

• Their strategy, transactions, restructuring and delivering value from investments in aviation.
• Improving outcomes through smarter pricing, innovative products, and partnerships.
• Driving operational excellence to deliver more efficient and reliable services.
• Develop their talent for the future as their organisation and industry evolves.
• Deliver technology-enabled asset management and passenger services.
• Maintain critical systems and networks to defend against emerging threats.
• Ensure the safety and security of passengers and cargo.

Qualifications

We are interested in hearing from individuals with demostrated relevant experience, who can deliver high quality work to aviation clients, in particularly those with experience of:

• Airline/airport ground operations/flight operations.
• Airline/airport technology, including operational and commercial systems.
• Sustainability or environmental issues in the aviation sector including sustainable aviation fuel.
• Fuel supply chain, including development of alternative aviation fuels.

We would expect successful candidates to be able to demonstrate:

• An understanding of the aviation sector and its structures.
• An ability to create/maintain an effective client network by nurturing key client relationships.
• Exceptional problem-solving and consulting skills (does not have to be for a consultancy).
• Experience of designing and delivering projects/programmes in a range of environments.
• An ability to work with colleagues in a multi-disciplined team.

We are also interested in candidates who have experience of successfully selling consultancy/ professional services work to clients in the aviation sector.

We know the skill-gap and ‘need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply – we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today by completing our online application

Additional Information

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 5additional 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)

We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We are on a journey towards ensuring our workforce is diverse at all levels and that our firm is representative of the world around us. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

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