Senior Consultant - Energy & Utilities

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 teams of interdisciplinary 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 with deep expertise in various sectors.

Operating at the leading edge of consulting, our multi-disciplinary teams combine deep economics expertise, industry knowledge, and a structured decision-making approach to help clients understand the potential impacts, benefits, and return on investment of strategic decisions. Our capabilities include:

• Strategy: We specialise in securing investments in public and private sector infrastructure and technology, from developing high-level strategies through to authoring business cases.
• Economics: We apply economic principles and analysis to support policy development, economic regulation, and benefits appraisal, helping clients to understand long-term impacts on various markets.
• Modelling: We develop operational, economic, and financial models to help understand the impact of various options/scenarios and guide strategic decision-making.

Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week. However, the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment, including up to 5 days per week on a client site.

We are hiring consultants with relevant professional experience in either a consulting role or in the energy industry who are natural problem-solvers and constantly curious. Attributes that we are looking for include:

• Capability-specific skills: Demonstrable experience in at least one of the following capabilities:

• Business strategies for regulated utilities, especially electricity networks and water companies.
• Offshore wind auction bidding strategies (e.g. for AR7).
• Strategies for hydrogen markets, including use cases and commercial models.
• Economic regulation of utilities, including outputs & incentives, cost benchmarking, and cost of capital.
• Power market design, including wholesale energy markets, capacity markets, and ancillary service markets.
• Revenue support mechanisms for energy infrastructure such as CfDs, RAB models, and cap & floor arrangements.
• Financial modelling for the energy and utilities sector, particularly for investment valuation and price control financial modelling.
• Strong technical skills in the development and application of power market forecasting models (specifically in PLEXOS software).
• Strong technical skills and proficiency in offshore wind auction modelling.

Our consultants are expected to be hands-on, working together with our clients to bring energy, direction, and expertise to help them solve their most pressing strategic challenges. We pride ourselves in partnering alongside clients – the best way to deliver real and long-lasting value. This often means travelling to client locations to work on-site.

In addition to the formal benefits set out below, we are passionate about the personal and career development of all our consultants. Our team is committed to providing the opportunities, support, training, and coaching required at all levels to ensure our consultants can all achieve their potential.

We know the skill-gap and ‘somewhat 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.

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. Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world’s most complex challenges. We’re focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self. 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.
• 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).

We’re committed to advancing equality. 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 any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on recruitmentenquiries@paconsulting.com.