Senior Consultant

At Arup we’re dedicated to sustainable development and to doing socially useful work that has meaning. Our purpose, shared values and collaborative approach has set us apart for over 75 years, guiding how we shape a better world. We solve the world’s most complex problems and deliver what seems impossible. We explore challenges with curiosity and creativity – using technology, imagination and rigour to deliver remarkable outcomes.

Arup offers a comprehensive consultancy service to clients across the built environment, infrastructure, and transport sectors. We support people who shape cities, including companies, investors, and government agencies, and we advise on a wide range of issues, including strategy, economic and commercial advice. We work with our clients at moments of change, whether it’s the development of policy, assessing the impact of major investments or informing strategic choices.

Our Cities, Planning and Design (CPD) team is at the forefront in thinking about the future of our places, providing a range of strategy, planning, funding, delivery and economic consultancy services to clients, all of whom are facing increasingly complex and interrelated challenges in today’s cities and regions. We work across several sub-areas including transport, regeneration, economic development, skills and innovation, energy and environment, often acting as the gateway to Arup’s wider business and services.

We are expanding our teams in Scotland, and are looking for enthusiastic built environment professionals who can support our growing areas of work in:

• Building the case for investment, including through authoring HMT Green Book compliant business cases
• Vision, strategy and storytelling documents for regeneration, development and infrastructure proposals.
• Strategic urban and regional planning, investment planning and urban governance
• Strategic advice on inclusive economic growth and innovation.
• Socio‑economic baselining, context setting, data and trend analysis and research.
• Impact assessments, including environmental, socio‑economic, equalities, and health for planning and policy.
• Alternative funding, finance and delivery models
• Project delivery advice and management support.

We’re looking for someone enthusiastic and collaborative to join our CPD team in Scotland, ideally in Edinburgh but we’re also open to Glasgow. You’ll be part of a team shaping sustainable and inclusive futures for towns and cities, working on a wide range of placemaking, transport and infrastructure projects across the UK and internationally. This role offers the chance to work directly with clients, contribute to bids and business development, and help deliver projects that make a meaningful difference to communities.

You’ll support and manage work across strategy, transport planning, business cases, regeneration and sustainability, while building strong relationships with public sector bodies, city governments, international organisations and infrastructure operators. Much of your work will involve helping clients navigate complex, long‑term development challenges and supporting positive outcomes. You’ll collaborate closely with colleagues from different disciplines, including planners, transport specialists, urban designers and sustainability experts, bringing together diverse perspectives on each project.

We welcome people from a variety of backgrounds and understand that not everyone will have experience in every area. If you’re passionate about creating better places, interested in how strategy or economics can support positive change, and keen to contribute to more sustainable and inclusive cities and regions, we’d love to hear from you.

From your first day, you’ll be part of a supportive, purpose‑driven community with access to great training, real responsibility and opportunities to grow your career while working on impactful, high‑profile projects.

We are looking for the following qualifications, attributes, and skills:

• An undergraduate (achieved/predicted minimum of 2:1, or equivalent) or Master’s degree in economics, geography, real estate, public policy, business, or…