Advisory Consultant

About the Role

• Provide strategic commercial assessments, including contract strategy, route to market, and risk‑sharing aspects. • Conduct supply chain risk assessments and analyze findings to develop mitigation strategies. • Deliver excellent client liaison and build professional relationships with key client stakeholders. • Support business development by identifying opportunities and contributing to bid activities. • Conduct research, analysis, generate creative ideas, optioneering, and deliver high‑quality presentations and reports. • Be digitally savvy and explore Mace’s digital opportunities. • Manage multiple short‑term commissions concurrently, demonstrating flexibility and agility. • Contribute consultancy expertise across major project and programme delivery while embodying Mace values. • Share knowledge, upskill colleagues, and mentor junior staff within the Advisory Services Centre of Excellence. • Apply technical knowledge to emerging technologies and processes.

Key Responsibilities

• ▸risk assessment
• ▸supply chain
• ▸digital innovation
• ▸research analysis
• ▸emerging tech
• ▸client liaison

What You Bring

Within our consult business, we harness our unique combination of leading‑edge practical expertise and project delivery consultancy to unlock the potential in every project. We seek candidates with a broad, flexible technical skillset to complement our team, offering advice alongside Mace sector teams. The role focuses on service excellence, continuous improvement, and product development. Ideal candidates have strategic advisory capability across service lines and specialize in one or more areas such as strategy and investment, construction and productivity, strategic development, asset and portfolio performance, commercial and delivery, or change and transformation. Post‑graduate experience in offering strategic advice to clients in a consultancy business. This may be as part of project and programme management roles but candidates will be able to demonstrate they can work strategically with high levels of complexity and uncertainty. • Apply change management and transformation experience (e.g., operating model, organisation development, skills transfer). • Communicate complex topics clearly and engagingly to diverse audiences. • Possess in‑depth knowledge of one or more property and infrastructure sectors (e.g., aviation, rail, roads, healthcare, nuclear, utilities, energy transition, government). • Thrive in uncertainty, self‑motivate to learn new skills and pursue varied opportunities. • Excel in stakeholder engagement and client relationship management. • Undertake domestic and international travel; obtain relevant security clearances as needed. • Pursue high‑level capability in a specialist subject area. • Apply skills across multiple sectors or global hubs.

Requirements

• ▸change management
• ▸stakeholder engagement
• ▸strategic advisory
• ▸sector expertise
• ▸post‑graduate
• ▸uncertainty resilience

Benefits

We are also open to discussing part‑time, flexible, and hybrid working options if suitable within the role. • Safety first – Going home safe and well

Work Environment

Hybrid