Principal Consultant - Analytics

A great opportunity for an engaging Principal Consultant with strong analytical skills to play a leading role in the growth our data & analytics capability.

About Q5

Q5 is a global organisation transformation consultancy that brings the Art & Science of Organisation Health to help our clients build better businesses worldwide. Since we were founded in 2009, we have had the privilege to partner with some of the world’s leading businesses, providing them with expert analysis, creating dramatic new strategies, overhauling struggling operations, and making sure the right people, are in the right place, doing the right things for the business to thrive.

What sets us apart though is not just what we do but how we do it. We take a partnership approach to our engagements, helping clients to come together and create tailored and comprehensive solutions that work for their business and context. Our working style is highly collaborative, which in practice means we enable their leaders with a structured approach and transformational expertise so that they can define, design, and deploy their vision.

Analytics Hub

We have recently established an ‘Analytics Hub’ that provides specialist analytics capability in support of our consulting projects. It is an incredibly exciting time for the business, with the team growing rapidly and working across a wide spread of client challenges including:

· Financial analysis and scenario modelling to support strategic reorientation

· Analysis in support of operating model redesign

· Business transformation to reduce operating costs

· Modelling future state workforce needs

· Designing strategic management dashboards

· Culture diagnostics drawing together people and survey data

About the Role

We are looking for a Principal Consultant to join our growing Analytics Hub and take on a leading role across multiple assignments. The role will involve advising clients and project teams; supporting business development; and coaching and developing junior consultants. To be successful in the role you will need to bring together solid quantitative skills, general consulting capabilities, and a collaborative, down-to-earth style.

Key Responsibilities

· Lead the day-to-day execution of analytics projects, including management of small consulting teams

· Conduct analyses and develop high quality reports, create insightful recommendations that lead to enhanced business outcomes

· Advise clients and project teams with SME input

· Support the development of new approaches/analytics tools

· Support Business Development with proposals and material

Requirements

• 7+ years professional experience with a experience of leading projects and teams in a similar Management Consulting environment  

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and hit the ground running in new contexts
• Good overall understanding of strategy, operating model design, business operations and/or people analytics
• Excellent communication skills and facilitation skills with the ability to explain complex results or concepts to non-data audiences
• Advanced analytics and quantitative skills to solve business problems (e.g. financial analysis, modelling, statistics, working with large datasets)
• Advanced problem-solving and critical thinking skills with experience in producing high-quality, insightful outputs
• Entrepreneurial mindset to help grow Q5’s analytics practice
• Qualifications and experience in a relevant discipline - ideally as a Data Scientist

The sort of person we are look for at Q5 

Highly adaptable and flexible in thinking style – We often find ourselves working across a variety of contexts and a ‘simple’ challenge turns out to be much more complex than it first appears. You need to be able to quickly join the dots together and develop a plan to move forward. You also need to be able to adapt that plan when it is not working. 

Collaborative in working style – This is one of our key differentiators.  It’s not about being the smartest person in the room but instead helping to bring different stakeholders together to create a solution that works for the business.  There is a “we” not “I” mindset 

Genuinely care about your clients and colleague and help them to succeed– When Q5 was founded it was to be more than a typical, transactional consulting firm. We are genuine partners with our clients focused on their long-term success, which means we hire people who a wired to care, be empathetic and get joy from seeing others succeed. 

Can build trusted relationships and bring people on the journey– One of the things our clients say about us is that we are able to bring people together and take them on the journey. This role will require building (and sustaining) people trust and engaging key people in the business to craft the right answer 

Resilient in the face of challenges, tight timelines and demanding clients – We continually strive to create a positive working environment, but the reality of our work is that it is hard and therefore not for everyone. The people who succeed at Q5 can work under the pressure without losing their sense of humour or care for others. 

You get your hands dirty and step-up – We have a flat structure. If you enjoy getting stuck into a client’s challenge, pushing the team forward and solving problems with others you will thrive. We pride ourselves on developing our junior team members and creating supportive environments where people can bring their true selves to work (and in turn do their best work). We're firm believers that everyone needs to roll up their sleeves to get the job done! 

Unique and offers something special – We don’t do cookie-cutter or formulaic and we need people who think differently, are intensely curious about solving our clients’ problems and stand-out from the crowd

Benefits

Finance

• Contributory Pension Plan
• Life Assurance and Income Protection
• New Starter Loan

Health & Wellbeing

• Private Medical Insurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to Digital GP and Wellbeing Apps
• Internal Wellbeing Programme

Family & Lifestyle

• Electric Car and Cycle to Work Schemes
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Free eye tests and vouchers for glasses

Last updated on Jul 29, 2024