Managing Consultant - Digital Trust and Cyber Security

Company Description

About us We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.

As strategies, technologies and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. Our teams combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

Our Digital Trust & Cyber Security team helps clients strengthen trust in technology, build resilience and respond to emerging cyber risks. In the US, we are growing our work with clients operating critical infrastructure, drawing on PA’s consulting, cyber and technology capabilities and our collaboration with Jacobs.

Job Description The opportunity

We are looking for a Managing Consultant to help grow and deliver our Digital Trust & Cyber Security work in the United States.

You will bring strong and relevant market experience from either Utilities or Transport. Experience across both sectors is not required. What matters is your ability to apply credible sector insight to the challenges facing organisations responsible for complex, interconnected and operationally critical services.

You will work with senior clients to understand their priorities, shape opportunities and translate emerging cyber and technology risks into practical action. A particular area of focus will be post-quantum cryptography, where clients need to understand their exposure, assess critical systems and trust dependencies, establish priorities and plan a managed transition.

This is a senior role combining market development, senior client engagement, commercial contribution, consulting delivery and team leadership. You will work with colleagues across PA, relevant US go-to-market teams and Jacobs to convert market opportunity into high-quality client work and repeatable capability.

The role is expected to be aligned to PA’s Digital & Data stream and supported across the wider DTCS and Jacobs growth agenda.

What you’ll be doing

Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders in US Utilities and/or Transport organisations.

Bring practical sector insight to conversations about cyber security, resilience, critical infrastructure and emerging technology risk.

Identify and shape client opportunities, helping move them from initial conversations through qualification, proposal and delivery.

Contribute to the growth of our US Digital Trust & Cyber Security business, including opportunities arising through PA’s collaboration with Jacobs.

Help clients understand the relevance of post-quantum cryptography to their organisation, critical services, technology estate and supply chain.

Shape and lead PQC-readiness work, including executive briefings, readiness assessments, prioritisation, roadmaps and related follow-on activity.

Apply security-architecture thinking to cryptographic assets, trust relationships, technology and supplier dependencies, and the sequencing of migration.

Connect sector, business and operational context with specialist cryptography, security architecture, OT, resilience and transformation expertise from across PA and Jacobs.

Provide senior oversight as opportunities convert into delivery, ensuring teams remain focused on client outcomes, quality and practical recommendations.

Lead consulting teams and create clear roles for specialist, delivery and junior colleagues.

Contribute to propositions, market perspectives and reusable approaches where these support real client engagement and commercial opportunity.

Support account and pursuit teams with sector insight, qualification, solution shaping, proposals and senior client discussions.

Develop colleagues and help build a sustainable US capability around critical-infrastructure cyber security and…