VISUAL CONSULTANT – OXFORD (HYBRID)

Spot.; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

5% employer pension contribution

Generous sick pay and parental leave

Salary sacrifice options

Season ticket loan

Full suite of IT equipment including a MacBook Pro

Job summary

A specialist management consultancy is seeking a Visually Skilled Consultant to enhance client projects through impactful visual models. This role involves collaboration with clients and teams, designing meaningful visuals, and distilling complex information into clear insights. Ideal candidates have a background in consultancy or an analytical field, along with strong visual thinking skills. The position offers a salary of £45-50k, generous holiday, and hybrid working arrangements, perfect for those looking to make a difference in Oxford.

Qualifications

• Experience in a client facing and/or analytical role.
• Strong visual thinking and information design capability.
• Ability to distil complex ideas into clear insights.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Experience with project management and client handling.

Responsibilities

• Design clear, meaningful visual models with clients.
• Conduct interviews and facilitate workshops.
• Access a visual asset library and collaborate with illustrators.
• Manage time and budget while ensuring high standard delivery.

Skills

Client-facing experience

Visual thinking

Information design

Communication skills

Project management

Tools

Adobe Illustrator

Excel

Job description

A Visually Skilled Consultant is needed to join Visual Meaning, a specialist management consultancy based inOxford, helping organisations make sense of complex systems through powerful, interactive visual models.

Visual Meaning combines systems thinking, visual communication and knowledge graph technology to helpclients understand challenges that are big, ambiguous or difficult. Their interactive visual maps create sharedunderstanding across organisations, bringing clarity to complexity. You will be joining a thoughtful,collaborative team that cares deeply about the quality and impact of its work.

This role sits within the Project Delivery Team and is central to how client work comes to life. You will workclosely with colleagues and clients to design clear, meaningful visual models hosted on a bespoke platform. Itis a hands on, client facing position suited to someone with around three years experience in consultancy,professional services, science, academia, technology or a similarly analytical environment.

On a day-to-day basis, you will sketch and iterate system maps and visualisations, sometimes live in workshops, responding to feedback in real time. You will have access to a visual asset library and, where needed, collaborate with illustrators to design visuals for their interactive platform. You will also work with structured datasets to link these through to the visual compositions.

You will interview clients and, over time, facilitate workshops to understand what needs to be communicated and why. You will analyse interview notes, documents and datasets, extracting insights and shaping how information should be structured and presented. Alongside this, you will manage your time and budget, coordinating with colleagues to ensure projects are delivered to a high standard.

To qualify:You should be a Visual Consultant, Analyst or similar with a CV that demonstrates

• Experience in a client facing and or analytical role;
• Strong visual thinking and information design capability;
• The ability to distil complex or ambiguous ideas into clear, structured insight;
• Confidence seeing the bigger picture and reflecting it back to others;
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills;
• Comfortable collaborating with diverse stakeholders;
• Project management and client handling experience.

A portfolio of visual work would be highly desirable, but not essential. Experience with vector graphics software such as Adobe Illustrator would also be beneficial, along with experience developing rich pictures or graphic facilitation. An interest in data and experience using Excel or equivalent is also welcome.

In return, you will join a friendly, tight knit Oxford team driven by a desire to make a difference. Salary is £45-50k (DOE). Benefits include 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, five percent employer pension contribution,generous sick pay and parental leave, salary sacrifice options, season ticket loan, hybrid working and a full suiteof IT equipment including a MacBook Pro.