Junior Consultant - Market Intelligence and Space Technology, Industries

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EY Consulting is a fast-moving, high-growth area within EY, and this with a huge potential for you. It offers variety, challenge, responsibility and the opportunity to realize your leadership potential. Our competency teams are focused on helping our clients to improve their business performance and operational efficiency, whilst managing risk. We help clients by delivering assessment, transformation and assurance solutions in specialty areas, like finance, supply chain, strategic choices, risk management, cyber security and technology.

Industries: You will not be limited to a specific sector, allowing you to work with clients across various industries, including transport, logistics, manufacturing, oil & gas, pharma, retail, service providers, etc. This is applied to all of our service lines: Assurance, Consulting, Strategy and Transactions, Tax & Legal and Accounting, Compliance & Reporting.

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The Opportunity: Your Next Adventure Awaits?

Our EU Policy teamis a well-established market, economic and policy consultancy providing top quality advice to the European institutions and private sector clients. Our EU Advisory business is active across a wide range of Directorate Generals and EU agencies, our core business areas being, among others, space and telecommunications, digital and transport. We are a truly European company, part of a group based in Diegem and Milan with a team of professionals from different academic and national backgrounds. We do have an established track record with all the major European institutions involved in the Space programme.

What motivates us is our mission to progress the “European project” by helping our clients to:

• Anticipate change;
• Design public policy responses;
• Understand how the EU can improve the lives of Europeans, support our businesses and transform our economy and society;
• Communicate decisions and actions to key stakeholders.

Our digital and space team is widely recognised in the market and offers a range of services including market analysis, user needs and requirements assessment, cost-benefit and other economic analyses, space initiatives feasibility assessments as well as policymaking support to clients such as EUSPA, DG DEFIS, the European Space Agency and other EU institutions active in downstream and upstream space.

Our success relies on the excellence of our team, which we are now looking to strengthen with a junior consultant focusing on quantitative and qualitative assessments, with a focus on the role of Secure Satcom, Copernicus and Galileo data and services. With the rise of New Space, and the ever-growing importance of securing access to space, the European Space sector is developing faster than ever and you will be exposed to a fast paced environment with a lot of opportunities. We’re looking for a junior to reinforce our team on the 11th of January ’27 or the 23th of August ’27.

Your Key Responsibilities

In our Market Intelligence and Space Technology team (MIST) you will:

• Build and upgrade your knowledge of space solutions, downstream space sectors and servicesand progressively develop your reputation as an expert
• Collect autonomously data to support projects and proposals, through desk research, interviews, surveys and case studies, under the coordination of your project and task manager;
• Contribute to drafting key deliverable to inform EU institutions and agencies and feed their strategic decisions;
• Communicate and work with team members in an effective and efficient way to deliver project related tasks;
• Learn, implement and eventually co-develop methodologies including market analysis, cost-benefit analysis, user needs and requirement assessment, business planning and impact assessments;
• Present and defend the results of your analysis to the client, ensure quality of delivery and supporting the achievement of client satisfaction;
• Given sufficient experience, manage and delegate tasks to more junior team members and effectively delegate tasks to junior colleagues.

Your Profile

You have:

• MSc in Science, Engineering, Business, Economics or related fields;
• Strong interest in innovation, science and new technologies;
• Excellent communication skills in English (oral and written), French a plus;
• Demonstrable quantitative analysis skills, enabling the candidate to perform market and cost-benefit assessments,
• Demonstrable experience managing research tasks/work packages within projects;
• Proficiency in MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Strong self-motivation & flexibility required in a small & fast-growing consultancy business;
• Strong affinity with AI and genuine interest in applying new AI trends in a professional context;
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.

Bonus skillset;

The following characteristics will be considered a plus:

• Relevant track record and/or interest in secure satellite communications;
• Relevant track record and/or interest in Earth Observation services and geospatial analysis, as well as familiarity with Earth Observation systems and remote sensing techniques;
• Relevant track record and/or interest in global navigation satellite systems;
• Understanding of the EU space ecosystem.

Example of projects:

• Support to EUSPA and the European Commission in performing a full cost-benefit analysis on the EU LEO-PNT initiative;
• Market and Technology Monitoring process update, expansion and validation, including leading contribution to the realization of the EO & GNSS Market Report for EUSPA;
• Support to the implementation of European Court of Auditors Recommendations related to a comprehensive EU space strategy for EUSPA;
• Semi-conductors in the defence and space sectors: support to DG DEFIS with the mapping of the EU semiconductor value chain, identification of key stakeholders as well as the forecasting of the demand for the next decade;
• Provision of specialised support to EUSPA’s market development in Strategic, economic and market uptake aspects of the European space programmes: smart mobility and commodities trading market uptake for EUSPA;
• Cost Benefit Analysis of Copernicus and high-resolution, fast revisit time data for private client;
• EU Space Data ecosystem analysis for EUSPA;
• Boosting the use of Copernicus: Evaluation, Gap analysis and Recommendations for DG DEFIS

What’s In It For You

• EY Family – you become part of the EY Family providing you with all the necessary skills, training and opportunities; enabling you to grow to your fullest potential.
• Attractive remuneration package - We offer an attractive remuneration package; including a company car and charging card, iPhone plus subscription, health insurance, pension plan, meal vouchers, and eco vouchers. Thanks to our flex plan it is possible to choose what you value most.
• Mobility package - You’ll be able to opt-in for the mobility budget. In return for giving up your (right to a) company car, you’ll receive a monthly budget from EY as compensation. This budget will allow you to use your employer-provided compensation for alternative transportation means or similar benefits, incl. reimbursement of housing costs (on condition you live within 10km of your main place of employment).
• Flexible working arrangements - We are proud of our flexible working arrangements. We will actively support you in building a successful career and delivering excellent client service without sacrificing your personal priorities. We offer flexible working hours and working from home multiple days per week is possible.
• Inspiring work environment - At EY we are dedicated to providing you with an inspiring work environment. A work environment that allows you to further develop your skills and enables you to fulfill your true potential.
• Learning & personal growth - You will benefit from an onboarding program, receive extensive training and will be coached by a counselor. We offer a clear career path tailored to your unique skills with necessary guidance.
• Artificial Intelligence – stay up to date with the latest AI trends through our extensive training opportunities and integrated AI systems. You’ll learn how to leverage AI in a smart and efficient way in your day-to-day work, while developing skills to identify, quantify and track value creation when integrating AI into client environments.
• Fun - By joining our EY- teams, you can participate in team activities, and companywide events and enjoy a drink during our monthly after-work drink.
• Sustainability - We have a fleet of hybrid and electric cars. Our flex plan makes it possible for you to choose the most sustainable option for you. You can also opt for a train subscription or lease a bike.
• Diversity & Inclusion - At EY we are passionate about the inclusion and support of individuals of all groups; we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or disability status.
• Location - All of our offices are easily accessible by public transport and/or by car andhave parking space. They all have parking spaces and charging stations are provided.

Here at EY, you’ll have the chance to build a truly exceptional experience. We’ll empower you with the latest technology, surround you with high-performing teams, and provide the global scale and diverse and inclusive culture you need to discover your full potential. Through our coaching and training programs, you’ll develop the skillsets you need to stay relevant today and in the future – all while building a network of colleagues, mentors, and leaders who will be on the journey with you at EY and beyond.