Economics & Investment Strategy Consultant

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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. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.  

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands. 

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PA’s Economics & Investment Strategy Capability:

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 capability specialisms include:

• 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.
• Investment Strategy: We specialise in securing investments in public sector services, infrastructure, and technology, from developing high-level strategies through to authoring business cases.
• Modelling: We develop operational, economic and financial models to help understand the impact of various transformation options and, ultimately, guide and evidence strategic decision-making.

Our clients choose us because we challenge convention to find the solutions that really work – in practice, not just on paper. We define success as achieving exceptional results that have a lasting impact on businesses, communities and team members. It’s a principle that underpins everything we do.

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.

What we're looking for:

We are hiring consultants with relevant professional experience in either a consulting role or in industry who are natural problem-solvers and constantly curious.

Candidates need to demonstrate experience in one (or more) of our capability specialisms:

Economics:

• Familiarity with econometric principles.
• Economic appraisals, impact assessments, policy development or economic regulation.

Investment Strategy:

• Familiarity with the HM Treasury Green Book and business case approach.
• Development of large (>£100m) business cases in the public sector.

Modelling:

• Development of decision-support models (operational, economic or financial).
• Strong technical skills and proficiency in common modelling tools (e.g. Excel).
• Organising ambiguous requirements to structure model frameworks.

Core skills:

• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to simplify and present technical complexity in an accessible way.
• The ability to balance strategic, big picture problem solving with detailed analysis.
• The ability to apply sound logic, backed up with appropriate analysis, to support decision-making and recommendations.
• Proactive, collaborative team player with strong interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams to deliver tangible outcomes.

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.

Flexible working – whilst we are guided by our client work and needs, you will have autonomy to manage your time and diary to suit your work/life balance.

In addition to the formal benefits set out below, we are passionate about the personal and career development of all our consultants. We are 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

Please be aware that some of our UK roles at PA Consulting require a UK security clearance.

All PA people are required to undergo background checks and to achieve the Baseline Personnel Security Standard however, some UK roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting, where applicants must have at least 5 years of continuous residency in the UK.

We therefore ask that you only apply if you meet the residency requirements (i.e. you are a British citizen or have been resident in the UK for the past 5 years), as this is the prerequisite for a security clearance. If you're unsure about your eligibility, we encourage you to review the UK Government’s guidance on security vetting before applying.

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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. 

Find out more about Life at PA here. 

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 
• 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.

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