Lead 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.

As a Lead Consultant within our growing Commercial Advisory business, you will play a key role in building and delivering a new Strategy & Transformation - Energy Transition capability. This is an opportunity to work with senior client stakeholders on some of the most important challenges facing the UK energy sector, helping organisations navigate strategic, commercial, regulatory and operational change.

This role is suited to an experienced consultant who can lead work streams and engagements, manage day-to-day client relationships, develop practical recommendations and help clients translate complex energy transition challenges into deliverable strategies and programmes. This role combines strong delivery leadership with growing responsibility for business development, proposition development and people leadership.

• Lead work streams and engagements across energy transition strategy, policy, system planning, decarbonisation and transformation.
• Manage project delivery activities, including scope, quality, budget, risks, resourcing and client expectations.
• Help clients define operating models, implementation roadmaps, investment cases and programme approaches that turn strategy into action.
• Advise clients on commercial strategy, energy efficiency, infrastructure development, climate resilience, risk, compliance and regulatory change.
• Manage day-to-day client relationships, facilitate workshops and build trusted relationships with managers, heads of function and other senior stakeholders.
• Lead research, analysis and synthesis of complex evidence to develop clear, practical and commercially grounded recommendations.
• Prepare and oversee high-quality client deliverables, including reports, presentations, business cases, transformation roadmaps and implementation plans.
• Contribute to proposals, bids, proposition development and market engagement activities as the capability grows.
• Coach and support consultants and analysts, helping to build a collaborative, inclusive and high-performing team.
• Collaborate with colleagues across advisory, engineering, environment, digital and project delivery teams to bring integrated solutions to clients.

• You should have 10+ years’ relevant experience delivering consulting or advisory projects in energy, utilities, infrastructure, sustainability, policy, strategy, transformation or related sectors.
• Experience leading work streams, managing small teams and taking accountability for quality, delivery and client outcomes.
• Strong understanding of the UK energy transition and the commercial, regulatory, policy and operational issues shaping the sector.
• Ability to structure ambiguous problems, develop robust analysis and communicate recommendations clearly to senior stakeholders.
• Experience supporting business development activities, proposals, client conversations and proposition development.
• Strong stakeholder management, facilitation and communication skills, with confidence leading workshops and presenting to senior audiences.
• Experience managing multiple priorities, project teams and competing client demands within a consulting or advisory environment.
• A collaborative leadership style with the ability to bring together multidisciplinary teams and support the development of others.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and structured thinking skills, combined with a practical focus on delivering client outcomes.

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…