Consultant Data Analyst in London

Join a global professional services leader, committed to solving the world's biggest challenges across energy, transport, utilities and urbanisation. We are seeking curious minds with a passion for data-driven problem solving to join and shape our growing Data & Insights team. You will support the delivery of innovative solutions across sectors such as rail, highways, telecoms, and future energy, delivering tangible impacts for generations to come.

You'll have the freedom to explore your interests across diverse projects and sectors, with support and encouragement to develop your skills and experience. We embrace a start-up mentality within a global corporate framework, encouraging autonomous decision making, fresh ideas and agile thinking.

What we do

• We help our clients unlock the full potential of their data by combining management and analytical expertise with cutting-edge technology solutions.
• Analytical Data Management: We bring the latest in cloud, software, and data best practices to our clients to develop clean and expressive datasets, tightly aligned to their goals and ambitions.
• Digital Asset Management: We combine our knowledge of the infrastructure lifecycle across industries like water, power, rail, and highways, and our expertise in data-driven insights to help our clients make decisions about the stewardship of their assets.
• Intelligence: We develop world-class solutions in mobility, logistics and GIS using high-volume data sources such as mobile network data.

Clear and concise presentation of results and concepts through a variety of mediums, tailoring the level of technical content to the audience.

Technical Leadership & Project Delivery

• Providing technical project delivery by designing solutions, writing code, and conducting analysis.
• Using data and management techniques to improve operational performance.
• Providing technical feedback and identifying opportunities to use data to derive insights and shape technical solutions.
• Acting as Project Manager on appropriate projects.

Continuous Learning & Growth

• Seek out on-the-job and external training opportunities to improve your technical and management capabilities, with support from the team.
• You are comfortable being part of a growing team that is building a business.
• You have a collaborative working style and understand the importance of diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Previous Experience

• Due to the diversity of our projects, a range of skills and experience is beneficial to this role.

Technical Capabilities

• Strong data manipulation and analysis skills.
• Programming using Python and SQL (additional languages are a benefit).
• Dashboarding using Tableau and/or Power BI and data visualisation using common data science packages (Matplotlib, Seaborn, Kepler).

Management Capabilities

• Business acumen including account management, relationship building, and commercial awareness.
• Business Analytics experience, using data and statistics to derive insights and make informed decisions.
• Experience in Agile project management and effective implementation of Agile principles.

We are a team of smart, innovative, and creative problem solvers. Challenge us and help us come up with new solutions to ensure water, energy and urbanisation are made sustainable for generations to come.

We will support your needs by giving you the tools, training and support to do your best work and then recognise your achievements. Equality, diversity, and inclusion lies at the heart of our team culture. We believe deeply in diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin, and experience, and we recognise the value this brings our collective team approach to solving challenging client problems.

Our internal working groups, such as GHD Young Professionals, Pride Alliance and Women in GHD (WING), enable every employee to shape the conversation and help implement initiatives to make GHD a better place to work for all. Inclusion is hugely important to us, and we want to ensure every team member can balance work around their unique personal circumstances.

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a wider variety of benefits to support you, including 25 days paid leave with opportunity to purchase additional leave, matched pension contributions and family-friendly flexible working. As an employee-owned business, you will have the opportunity to obtain shares in GHD, empowering you to shape and share the company's long-term success.

We will advocate for your professional development and provide you with technical development opportunities and mentoring programmes to help you grow and improve your abilities. We actively promote inclusion and equity focused initiatives, with the example of our STEMAZING partnership, which offers STEM outreach programmes for women.

Working Location

This is a hybrid role, with an expectation of an average of 3 days per week working at our central London office. We are keen to hear about your motivation for joining the Data & Insights team. If you are interested in this position, please upload your CV along with a 200-word statement outlining what draws you to our work applying data-driven approaches within the built environment.