Digital Strategy Consultant

PA Consulting; London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job description

Company Description

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 diverse teams of 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.

Job Description

At PA Consulting, we deliver ingenuity to transform businesses, solve complex problems, and design impactful solutions that enhance customer experiences. As part of the Digital and Data team, you will help bridge the gap between business challenges and innovative solutions, contributing to projects that make a tangible difference.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone early in their consulting career, looking to grow their expertise and deliver real value to clients across diverse industries.

What you’ll do:

• Work across a variety of consulting roles including business analysis, strategy development, and scrum master.
• Work closely with clients and internal teams to gather, document, and refine business and technical requirements. You'll define problems, articulate opportunities, and shape clear solutions to align with client objectives.
• Support the design of as-is and to-be processes by mapping user journeys, analysing pain points, and identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Conduct market and user research, applying techniques like interviews, workshops, and surveys to extract actionable insights. You'll also assist with competitor analysis and trend identification.
• Translate high-level business needs into detailed user stories, epics, and acceptance criteria, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and technical feasibility.
• Play a key role in Agile teams, participating in ceremonies such as stand-ups, backlog refinements, and sprint reviews, while ensuring work aligns with the project vision and roadmap.
• Use consulting frameworks and tools, such as SWOT analysis, prioritisation matrices, Jira, and Miro, to structure your work and communicate ideas effectively to teams and clients.
• Support qualitative and quantitative analysis to uncover insights and inform decision-making. You’ll identify patterns in data, draw conclusions, and recommend actionable solutions.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Strategists, and other stakeholders to manage product backlogs, prioritise features, and ensure deliverables meet user and business needs.
• Assist in designing and facilitating workshops, enabling teams to collaboratively refine solutions and prioritise delivery activities.
• Actively contribute to business development initiatives, including preparing proposals, creating bid content, and supporting account management activities.

This role will provide you with the opportunity to work across diverse industries, develop your consulting and technical toolkit, and build meaningful relationships that drive your career forward.

Qualifications

What we’re looking for:

• Experience working in a digital environment, with experience across business analysis, consulting, digital strategy, or a related role with exposure to requirements gathering, process mapping, and Agile methodologies.
• Comfortable working across all PA industries including Consumer & Manufacturing, Public Sector, Defence & Security, Energy & Utilities, Financial Services, and Transport.
• An ambitious individual with a proactive and curious approach to learning, with a desire to build a varied consulting career and deliver impactful solutions.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, with the ability to interpret data, identify patterns, and develop strategic recommendations.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the confidence to engage technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Familiarity with tools and techniques such as Jira, Miro, user journey mapping, and prioritisation frameworks.
• Collaborative mindset, with the ability to build strong relationships across teams and deliver as part of a cohesive unit.

Hybrid Working

We believe in collaboration and are guided by our client's work and needs; however, we value flexibility too. Our hybrid working model lets you balance work and life, with most roles requiring at least three days a week in the office or on client sites. Your schedule will be shaped by your role, team needs, and discussions with your manager to ensure the right mix of face-to-face and independent work.

Apply now to join PA Consulting as a Digital Consultant/Business Analyst and start shaping your consulting career.

Additional Information

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose-led meaningful work. We believe diversity fuels ingenuity. Diversity of thought brings exciting perspectives; diversity of experience brings a wealth of knowledge, and diversity of skills brings the tools we need. When we bring people together with diverse backgrounds, identities, and minds, embracing that difference through an inclusive culture where our people thrive; we unleash the power of diversity – bringing ingenuity to life.

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 for you and your family.
• 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.
• PA share ownership.
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn).

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 other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We are on a journey towards ensuring our workforce is diverse at all levels and that our firm is representative of the world around us. 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 on [e-mail].