Senior Consultant, Strategy & Transformation

Join a global professional services leader, committed to solving the world’s biggest challenges across energy, transport, utilities and urbanisation.

GHD is one of the world’s leading professional services companies operating in the global markets of water, energy and resources, environment, property and buildings, and transportation. 

Privately owned by our people, GHD provides engineering, architecture, environmental and construction services to private and public sector clients across five continents. Focused on creating lasting community benefit, our connected global network of over 12,000 people delivers projects with high standards of safety, quality and ethics.

The Role

In this role, you will support advisory and consulting projects that help clients define strategy, plan investment, improve performance and deliver practical pathways to decarbonisation. This is a client-facing delivery role suited to someone with several years’ relevant consulting, advisory or industry experience who is ready to take ownership of defined work packages while continuing to build sector depth, consulting craft and commercial confidence.
Key Responsibilities

• Deliver defined work packages across energy transition strategy, commercial advisory, decarbonisation planning and transformation.
• Undertake research, analysis, benchmarking and stakeholder engagement to develop clear, evidence-based recommendations.
• Prepare high-quality client deliverables, including reports, presentations, options assessments, business cases and implementation plans.
• Contribute to project management activities, including planning tasks, tracking progress, managing actions and supporting quality control.
• Work directly with client teams and internal specialists to gather insight, test findings and support practical implementation.
• Support proposals, market insight, capability development and knowledge sharing across the Commercial Advisory business.
• Collaborate with colleagues across advisory, engineering, environment, digital and project delivery teams to bring integrated solutions to clients.

Key Skills & Experience

• You should have 6+ years’ relevant experience in consulting, advisory, strategy, policy, infrastructure, energy, utilities, sustainability or a related field.
• Experience contributing to client-facing projects, ideally within UK energy, infrastructure, utilities, public sector, regulated markets or asset-intensive organisations.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and structured thinking skills, with the ability to turn complex information into clear insight.
• Developing understanding of the UK energy transition and the commercial, regulatory, operational and delivery issues shaping the sector.
• Good written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to develop clear client-facing materials.
• Confidence working with data, research, stakeholder input and qualitative evidence to support recommendations.
• A collaborative working style, curiosity, attention to detail and a practical mindset focused on client outcomes.

Why Join GHD?

GHD is a global professional services company committed to solving the world’s biggest challenges in water, energy, and urbanisation. As part of our growing Advisory business, you’ll work on career-defining projects with international impact—helping to shape more sustainable, resilient and affordable energy systems. Here you will be part of an employee-owned business with access to multidisciplinary expertise, global networks and a culture that values collaboration, practical problem-solving and long-term impact.

Our Commitment to you

Commitment is a powerful word that defines how we do business, how we serve our clients and how we care for one another. We will support your needs by giving you the tools to do your best work and then recognise your achievements. We will set your curiosity free to allow brilliant minds to do their best work. We will invest in new ideas, removing barriers where we can. Finally, we will encourage you to collaborate with thousands of diverse people across our global business.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion lies at the heart of our team culture. We operate a flat intellectual hierarchy meaning every voice is heard and has genuine influence. 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.

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. We will advocate for your profession development and provide access to formal education through the GHD Business School and practical application through technical delivery. We actively promote inclusion and equity focussed initiatives, with the example of our STEMAZING partnership, which offers STEM outreach programmes for women.

Working Location

GHD operates a Hybrid Working Standard across the Enterprise, with a minimum of three days per week at a GHD office. There is a preference for this role to be based in GHD’s London office, although we also have a number of other offices across the UK.