Senior or Principal Consultant, Steer Economic Development

As a Senior or Principal Consultant at Steer Economic Development, you will:

• Solve important and varied problems – each week can address a diverse set of intellectual challenges: e.g. How can we help traditional manufacturing businesses adopt AI? What’s the impact of relocating a government agency to a new region of the UK? How can the North West make the most of the government’s commitment to levelling up? Our clients will ask for your help answering questions like these, and many more.
• Build a work portfolio you are passionate about – working with the rest of the team, you will have the freedom to develop relationships and win work to suit your skills and interests. Have a passion for decarbonisation, Industry 4.0, regeneration or inclusive growth? We will help you win that work and deliver.
• Be recognised and rewarded for your achievements – we are an employee-owned company and we rely on each other for success. We offer a highly competitive renumeration package and flexible benefits.  Our team meets every week to discuss new opportunities, review performance and celebrate each other’s achievements.
• Grow your career alongside our growing business – we are ambitious. You should be too.

A typical day will involve:

• Primary research – for example, you could be interviewing business leaders, analysing client-owned or public data, building maps/data visualisations, or designing telephone surveys.
• Winning over clients – you will be the first port of call for your clients. You will spend time with them discussing project methodologies, sharing findings, and planning next steps. Sometimes you might need to tell them ‘no’, but you’ll find a way to do that without damaging the working relationship.
• Project management – you will review your project budgets every week then prioritise, plan and delegate. Your successful stewardship of projects is a critical factor for our profitability.
• Writing first-class reports – our research is frequently published by our clients. It will be your responsibility to ensure it is communicated brilliantly, and of the highest quality.
• Winning new work – you will develop a vision for how we can meet a client need, then compose a scope of work, budget, and compelling proposal that gives clients confidence that we will deliver.
• Developing staff – you will help to turn our promising graduates into highly-skilled professionals. You will have line-management responsibilities, and more broadly you will help to develop all of our junior staff through finding opportunities for stretching work, offering advice and giving constructive feedback.
• Developing your own skills – you will fine-tune your consultancy skills through our L&D programmes, internal/external networking and the mentorship of our highly experienced industry experts.

Qualifications

• 4+ years’ experience, ideally in the public sector, consulting industry or relevant private sector experience.
• A degree (2:1 or higher), preferably in Economics, Geography, or a social science subject. We also are interested in hearing from Science graduates.

About Steer Economic Development

Our work is about helping sectors, place and markets to thrive – we work on a wide range of policy interventions that make a real difference to the economic success of areas: innovation policy, enabling infrastructures (such as housing and digital infrastructures), the enterprise economy, the labour market, and net zero to name just a few.

Our clients are primarily from the public sector, both central and local government. They ask us to help them with all stages of the policy cycle – from initial development through to policy evaluation. We are recognised by our clients for our independence, rigour and thoughtfulness.

Steer Economic Development is the economic development branch of Steer, a global business consultancy specialising in transport, cities and infrastructure, with over 450 staff in 20 offices around the world.

Why join us?

Steer is an employee-owned company. We offer a flexible approach to work and believe in empowering our people and giving them the opportunities to shine.

Steer Economic Development has offices in Manchester, Leeds and London as well as a sister economic development practice in the US. We offer the flexibility to work between home and any of our three UK offices.

We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications regardless of age, race, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity or gender. We welcome applications for part-time or flexible working arrangements.

As a Senior or Principal Consultant at Steer Economic Development, you will:

• Solve important and varied problems – each week can address a diverse set of intellectual challenges: e.g. How can we help traditional manufacturing businesses adopt AI? What’s the impact of relocating a government agency to a new region of the UK? How can the North West make the most of the government’s commitment to levelling up? Our clients will ask for your help answering questions like these, and many more.
• Build a work portfolio you are passionate about – working with the rest of the team, you will have the freedom to develop relationships and win work to suit your skills and interests. Have a passion for decarbonisation, Industry 4.0, regeneration or inclusive growth? We will help you win that work and deliver.
• Be recognised and rewarded for your achievements – we are an employee-owned company and we rely on each other for success. We offer a highly competitive renumeration package and flexible benefits.  Our team meets every week to discuss new opportunities, review performance and celebrate each other’s achievements.
• Grow your career alongside our growing business – we are ambitious. You should be too.

A typical day will involve:

• Primary research – for example, you could be interviewing business leaders, analysing client-owned or public data, building maps/data visualisations, or designing telephone surveys.
• Winning over clients – you will be the first port of call for your clients. You will spend time with them discussing project methodologies, sharing findings, and planning next steps. Sometimes you might need to tell them ‘no’, but you’ll find a way to do that without damaging the working relationship.
• Project management – you will review your project budgets every week then prioritise, plan and delegate. Your successful stewardship of projects is a critical factor for our profitability.
• Writing first-class reports – our research is frequently published by our clients. It will be your responsibility to ensure it is communicated brilliantly, and of the highest quality.
• Winning new work – you will develop a vision for how we can meet a client need, then compose a scope of work, budget, and compelling proposal that gives clients confidence that we will deliver.
• Developing staff – you will help to turn our promising graduates into highly-skilled professionals. You will have line-management responsibilities, and more broadly you will help to develop all of our junior staff through finding opportunities for stretching work, offering advice and giving constructive feedback.
• Developing your own skills – you will fine-tune your consultancy skills through our L&D programmes, internal/external networking and the mentorship of our highly experienced industry experts.

Qualifications

• 4+ years’ experience, ideally in the public sector, consulting industry or relevant private sector experience.
• A degree (2:1 or higher), preferably in Economics, Geography, or a social science subject. We also are interested in hearing from Science graduates.

About Steer Economic Development

Our work is about helping sectors, place and markets to thrive – we work on a wide range of policy interventions that make a real difference to the economic success of areas: innovation policy, enabling infrastructures (such as housing and digital infrastructures), the enterprise economy, the labour market, and net zero to name just a few.

Our clients are primarily from the public sector, both central and local government. They ask us to help them with all stages of the policy cycle – from initial development through to policy evaluation. We are recognised by our clients for our independence, rigour and thoughtfulness.

Steer Economic Development is the economic development branch of Steer, a global business consultancy specialising in transport, cities and infrastructure, with over 450 staff in 20 offices around the world.

​​​​​​​Why join us?

Steer is an employee-owned company. We offer a flexible approach to work and believe in empowering our people and giving them the opportunities to shine.

Steer Economic Development has offices in Manchester, Leeds and London as well as a sister economic development practice in the US. We offer the flexibility to work between home and any of our three UK offices.

We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications regardless of age, race, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity or gender. We welcome applications for part-time or flexible working arrangements.