Lead Consultant

Join a global professional services leader, committed to solving the world’s biggest challenges across energy, transport, utilities and urbanisation.

GHD is one of the world’s leading professional services companies operating in the global markets of water, energy and resources, environment, property and buildings, and transportation. 

Privately owned by our people, GHD provides engineering, architecture, environmental and construction services to private and public sector clients across five continents. Focused on creating lasting community benefit, our connected global network of over 12,000 people delivers projects with high standards of safety, quality and ethics.

The Role

As a Lead Consultant within our growing Commercial Advisory business, you will play a key role in building and delivering a new Strategy & Transformation – Energy Transition capability. This is an opportunity to work with senior client stakeholders on some of the most important challenges facing the UK energy sector, helping organisations navigate strategic, commercial, regulatory and operational change.

This role is suited to an experienced consultant who can lead workstreams and engagements, manage day-to-day client relationships, develop practical recommendations and help clients translate complex energy transition challenges into deliverable strategies and programmes. This role combines strong delivery leadership with growing responsibility for business development, proposition development and people leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead workstreams and engagements across energy transition strategy, policy, system planning, decarbonisation and transformation.
• Manage project delivery activities, including scope, quality, budget, risks, resourcing and client expectations.
• Help clients define operating models, implementation roadmaps, investment cases and programme approaches that turn strategy into action.
• Advise clients on commercial strategy, energy efficiency, infrastructure development, climate resilience, risk, compliance and regulatory change.
• Manage day-to-day client relationships, facilitate workshops and build trusted relationships with managers, heads of function and other senior stakeholders.
• Lead research, analysis and synthesis of complex evidence to develop clear, practical and commercially grounded recommendations.
• Prepare and oversee high-quality client deliverables, including reports, presentations, business cases, transformation roadmaps and implementation plans.
• Contribute to proposals, bids, proposition development and market engagement activities as the capability grows.
• Coach and support consultants and analysts, helping to build a collaborative, inclusive and high-performing team.
• Collaborate with colleagues across advisory, engineering, environment, digital and project delivery teams to bring integrated solutions to clients.

Key Skills & Experience

• You should have 10+ years’ relevant experience delivering consulting or advisory projects in energy, utilities, infrastructure, sustainability, policy, strategy, transformation or related sectors.
• Experience leading workstreams, managing small teams and taking accountability for quality, delivery and client outcomes.
• Strong understanding of the UK energy transition and the commercial, regulatory, policy and operational issues shaping the sector.
• Ability to structure ambiguous problems, develop robust analysis and communicate recommendations clearly to senior stakeholders.
• Experience supporting business development activities, proposals, client conversations and proposition development.
• Strong stakeholder management, facilitation and communication skills, with confidence leading workshops and presenting to senior audiences.
• Experience managing multiple priorities, project teams and competing client demands within a consulting or advisory environment.
• A collaborative leadership style with the ability to bring together multidisciplinary teams and support the development of others.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and structured thinking skills, combined with a practical focus on delivering client outcomes.

Why Join GHD?

GHD is a global professional services company committed to solving the world’s biggest challenges in water, energy, and urbanisation. As part of our growing Advisory business, you’ll work on career-defining projects with international impact—helping to shape more sustainable, resilient and affordable energy systems. Here you will be part of an employee-owned business with access to multidisciplinary expertise, global networks and a culture that values collaboration, practical problem-solving and long-term impact.

Our Commitment to you

Commitment is a powerful word that defines how we do business, how we serve our clients and how we care for one another. We will support your needs by giving you the tools to do your best work and then recognise your achievements. We will set your curiosity free to allow brilliant minds to do their best work. We will invest in new ideas, removing barriers where we can. Finally, we will encourage you to collaborate with thousands of diverse people across our global business.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion lies at the heart of our team culture. We operate a flat intellectual hierarchy meaning every voice is heard and has genuine influence. We believe deeply in diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin, and experience, and we recognise the value this brings our collective team approach to solving challenging client problems.

Inclusion is hugely important to us, and we want to ensure every team member can balance work around their unique personal circumstances. In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a wider variety of benefits to support you, including 25 days paid leave with opportunity to purchase additional leave, matched pension contributions and family-friendly flexible working. We will advocate for your profession development and provide access to formal education through the GHD Business School and practical application through technical delivery. We actively promote inclusion and equity focussed initiatives, with the example of our STEMAZING partnership, which offers STEM outreach programmes for women.

Working Location

GHD operates a Hybrid Working Standard across the Enterprise, with a minimum of three days per week at a GHD office. There is a preference for this role to be based in GHD’s London office, although we also have a number of other offices across the UK. 

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