Consultant, Data Science | Digital & Insights, Data Science | Strategic Communications in London

The Strategic Communications practice of FTI Consulting offers specialist expertise across a variety of disciplines and sectors, including financial services, retail, natural resources, energy, public affairs, real estate, professional services, technology media telecoms (TMT), healthcare and life sciences.

Our Digital & Insights practice is seeking an intellectually curious and creative consultant to support our growing analytics team across the EMEA region. The industry today is undergoing a major transformation due to the advent of AI and a continuous increase in volume and velocity of data, with the team seizing these novel opportunities to protect brands and elevate reputations. Our function is uniquely positioned at the intersection of communications and data science to provide decision intelligence that shifts public perception. We use data to establish what should be said, who needs to be targeted, and how to make messages resonate.

The successful candidate will help to design, develop, deploy data science approaches to communications challenges and will also work with consultants and other subject‑matter experts to create holistic solutions for clients.

What You’ll Do

• Support projects in the areas of audience & influencer insights, conversation & media analysis, campaign & message performance, event assessment and more.
• Use existing platforms, tools and APIs to collect and analyse data, both structured and unstructured, including text, images and video.
• Use statistics, machine learning techniques and AI to solve complex challenges for our clients, especially regarding their communication and reputation management efforts.
• Build tools, dashboards, pipelines or applications to provide new capabilities internally and to clients.
• Detect hidden patterns, identify trends, reveal drivers, predict developments, visualise similarities and differences, and otherwise leverage data to deliver actionable insights.
• Collaborate with other experts on the research, planning and development of data‑driven projects.
• Support new business efforts by delivering data‑driven insights to inform our approach.
• Assist in the development of presentations, client decks and pitches to drive organisational results.
• Support embedding innovation across the firm and increasing data maturity, especially around GenAI adoption and developments within Natural Language Processing.

Examples of client challenges the team has solved:

• Establishing key influencers and narrative risks posing a threat to a global merger.
• Conducting media and social media due diligence before a major deal and CEO change.
• Auditing and optimizing brand presence across consumer‑facing AI systems.

How You’ll Grow

We are committed to investing and supporting you in your professional development and have developed a range of programs focused on fostering leadership, growth and development opportunities. You’ll be mentored by a dedicated coach and receive regular coaching sessions and advocacy for your professional growth. You will also have access to trainings, workshops and opportunities to learn the foundations of corporate communications and public relations, enabling you to develop data science approaches that directly target client needs. As you progress, we offer tailored programmes for critical professional milestones to ensure you are prepared and empowered to take on your next role.

What You Will Need to Succeed

We are looking for candidates who want to explore how data science is transforming the world of communications and be at the forefront of that industry change. The role requires coding in Python, comfort with statistics, and engineering solutions as a core part of the job.

Basic Qualifications

• Intellectual curiosity and critical thinking.
• Strong sense of data and artificial intelligence ethics.
• Passion for tackling challenging problems and innovating.
• Ability to distil insights from data and communicate them to non‑technical audiences.
• Programming skills in Python, R or a similar language and ability to apply data science techniques in practice.
• Familiarity with cloud computing platforms, big data frameworks and database technologies.
• Familiarity with data visualisation principles and tools, e.g. Tableau, Power BI.
• Comfortable with writing and using prompts across AI tools such as ChatGPT to produce research outputs.
• Excellent English and strong presentation skills.
• Experience with Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel.

Desirable Qualifications

• Programming skills in Python, including data science libraries such as pandas, numpy or plotly.
• Work experience in consulting or a client‑facing business.
• Quantitative research methods (especially surveys and experiments).
• Media and conversation analysis.
• Journalism, media, communications, or marketing.
• Digital listening tools (e.g. Brandwatch/Talkwalker).
• Additional language skills.
• Good understanding of software design principles.
• Exposure to version control systems such as GitHub.
• Experience in code and model deployment, including MLOps.
• Scripting experience (e.g., bash) and ability to write SQL queries.

Benefits

Our goal is to support your wellbeing – physically, emotionally and financially. We offer market‑competitive benefits (including pension) and 15 flexible benefits, plus health, lifestyle and family‑friendly options. We also provide professional development programmes, wellness, recognition, community volunteering initiatives, and flexible/hybrid working arrangements.

Equal Opportunity Employer

FTI Consulting is an equal‑opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, protected veteran status, religion, physical or mental disability, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.