Principal Consultant - of Mobility

What if you could do the kind of work the world needs?

At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

Closing Date:
Friday 20th March 2026

The Future of Mobility team sits within our wider Transport Planning business, and includes a wide range of specialists. We are researchers, town planners, engineers, economists, accountants, behavioural scientists, data specialists and transport planners. We work on complex, often ambiguous challenges that sit at the intersection of technology, policy, geography, behaviour and investment decision-making.

We offer a variety of expertise, approaches and skills to support our public and private sector clients with their futures challenges, in the mobility sector and beyond. For example, we have applied our human centred design and analytical approaches to projects looking at suicide prevention, improving air quality, expanding the uptake of electric vehicles, making transport more accessible and inclusive, and exploring emerging technologies such as autonomous vehicles and e-scooters.

You will work with, and be supported by, senior members of the Future of Mobility team, including industry experts.

The team is virtual, and we welcome applicants who would be based out of any of our offices in England, Scotland or Wales. We have a strong presence in Birmingham, London, Manchester, Liverpool and across Edinburgh and Glasgow, and support regular meetings between team members to harness strong working relationships. The role will also involve occasional travel for client meetings to help develop meaningful relationships.

Due to our expanding public and private sector workload, we are looking for a Principal Consultant with experience and knowledge of emerging modes, services, systems and business models within the transport sector. This could include one or more of: connected and automated mobility, micromobility, demand responsive transport, and ticketing, payment and information systems.

This is a consultancy and advisory role. You will work with public and private sector clients to help them make better decisions about the future of mobility – shaping strategy, policy, investment cases and programmes of work.

While you will need to understand emerging modes, technologies and business models, you will not be expected to design or engineer systems. Instead, your value will come from your ability to frame problems, analyse evidence, balance competing considerations, and provide clear, credible advice that balances customer, technology and commercial considerations.

Working as part of a consultancy team, you will be on several projects and client accounts at any given time. Although the role has a focus on emerging modes, technologies and business models, your work may cover a variety of areas of expertise. Where you have a passion and strength in a particular area, we can support you in becoming a subject matter expert.

You will report to a senior member of our team with expected day-to-day tasks that include the following:

• Delivering a range of consultancy projects (reporting to a Project Director), which at any one time could include a selection of the following:

• Developing business cases and investment narratives for new mobility services

• Leading feasibility studies to assess the viability of emerging transport interventions

• Undertaking market and policy research to assess how new technologies could be applied in real‑world contexts

• Designing and delivering research to understand user needs, public attitudes and behavioural responses

• Supporting clients with funding applications, policy development and strategic decision‑making

• Managing projects (reporting to a Project Director), ensuring projects are delivered on time and to budget.

• Applying strong analytical skills to critically evaluate and analyse data to provide robust recommendations. This will include numerical data, geographical data and qualitative data.

• Working with colleagues and leaders in the team on business development activities, including proactive client engagement and supporting with, or leading, the preparation of bids and fee proposals.

• Working at both strategic and detailed levels with strong interpersonal and communication skills, able to communicate confidently with clients, stakeholders and team members.

• Building and maintaining effective client relationships, delivering a high standard of client care.

• Being present in the office (hybrid working) alongside colleagues and working with colleagues across the UK and overseas.

• Experience working on emerging mobility modes or…