Senior Consultant, Infrastructure and Change, People Consulting in London

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The UK government’s “UK Infrastructure: A 10 Year Strategy” sets out a long-term, cross-sector plan to drive economic growth, deliver net zero, and improve public services. With a £725 billion commitment, the strategy prioritises stability, private investment, and robust delivery across transport, energy, digital, water, housing, and social infrastructure. Sustainable infrastructure will play a critical role in delivering this strategy. Building a career in this sector offers diverse opportunities on some of the UK’s most transformational and iconic projects.

The opportunity involves advising clients on their most complex sustainable infrastructure challenges, which spans multiple sectors and competencies. We are focused on growing our sustainable infrastructure programme and large-scale transformation delivery across our wide range of clients within various sectors, including Government, Transport, Energy and Utilities, Housing and Telecommunications. We want people who are passionate about sustainability and climate change and who are keen to help clients realise decarbonisation and energy transition ambitions.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Supporting the definition of project scope, outcomes and deliverables, and delivering high-quality work as part of a wider team.
• Analysing complex organisation, workforce and change issues associated with infrastructure delivery and translating these into clear, insight-driven recommendations.
• Supporting stakeholder engagement and collaborating across EY teams.
• Coordination and facilitation of client meetings and workshops.
• Bringing fresh thinking and contributing ideas to enhance EY’s People Consulting service offerings.
• Staying informed on Infrastructure market, technology, and people-related trends, and sharing insights across the team.
• Engaging actively in the EY Change Community and contributing to an inclusive, high-performing team culture.
• Building trusted client relationships that contribute to enhancing EY’s brand and reputation.
• Providing guidance, coaching and on-the-job support to junior staff.
• Contributing to business development activity in Infrastructure, including development of proposals in response to tender opportunities.
• Supporting internal practice development across infrastructure and workforce change.
• Demonstrating EY values through day-to-day behaviours and contributing to the EY Infrastructure community through active engagement, attending community events and seeking to drive learning and cross-service line collaboration.

Skills and attributes for success include:

• An understanding of, and interest in, the UK Infrastructure sector.
• Experience working in industry, government or a management consultancy environment.
• Experience contributing to change management approaches that improve performance, engagement, and adoption.
• Ability to work at pace, managing multiple priorities and deliver well under pressure.
• Comfortable working in virtual and hybrid environments.
• Strong communication and internal and external (client) stakeholder engagement skills.
• A collaborative mindset, particularly in supporting and developing junior colleagues.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build credibility with clients and colleagues.
• Knowledge of one or more of the following sectors is preferred: Energy, Government, Transport, Power and Utilities.
• Awareness of relevant technologies and their organisational implications, including ERP systems, AI, data, RPA, IoT, and people-experience technologies.

To qualify for the role, you will need:

• This role is available in our EY London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds or Glasgow offices.
• Educated to degree level or equivalent qualification or experience.
• Relevant experience within the infrastructure sector, with specific experience in one or more sub-capabilities (e.g. business change strategy development and delivery, organisation design, workforce planning).
• Experience working on business transformation or organisational change projects (in consulting or in-house).
• Ability to support delivery of the end-to-end change management lifecycle, with previous experience in key change deliverables; change strategy & approach, change impact assessment, learning needs analysis, training approach, stakeholder engagement, communications, business readiness assessments.

Ideally, you will also have:

• An understanding of how AI can add value to businesses and in particular the Infrastructure sector.
• Experience in design and delivery of change programmes, culture and leadership development.
• Knowledge of industry and technology trends – infrastructure experience is preferred.

What we look for:

• Professionals who want to work on large-scale change programmes.
• Individuals who can demonstrate real impact and bring curiosity, structure, and energy to client delivery.
• People who want to grow their consulting skills and contribute to developing EY’s change capabilities.

What we offer:

• EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements.
• We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities.
• We offer a competitive remuneration package, including support for flexible working and career development.
• Continuous learning opportunities including monthly Lunch and Learns and dedicated infrastructure in-person learning days.
• Transformative leadership insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture where you’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice.

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.