Manager Strategy Consulting - Data Economics

Manager — Strategy Consulting, Data & Economics

London | Permanent, Full Time | Competitive salary + bonus

The opportunity:

Most data consultancies help organisations use their data better. This firm helps them understand what it's actually worth — and what needs to change to realise that value.

This is a specialist boutique at the forefront of Data Economics: a growing discipline that sits at the intersection of strategy consulting, financial modelling, and data strategy. Their clients are some of the UK's largest infrastructure, utilities, and transport organisations. The work lands at board level.

The problems are genuinely hard.

They are looking for a Manager-level consultant to join as a core delivery team member. You will have 3–6 years of consulting experience, own workstreams end-to-end, and bring real depth in at least one of the firm's practice areas — whether that's data strategy and governance, financial modelling and investment cases, analytics advisory, or business change.

What the work actually looks like:

You will work within squads led by a senior consultant, taking defined workstreams from brief to output. That means building models and analysis, running workshops, presenting findings to mid-level clients, and mentoring junior analysts. You will also contribute to the methods and IP that make the firm's work repeatable and scalable.

The firm works across four domains — and strong candidates will have genuine depth in at least one:

Data Economics & Valuation — building the financial models and investment cases that help organisations quantify the value of their data assets and make the case for data investment at board level.

Data Asset Management — forensic assessment of data quality, lineage, and fitness for purpose; identifying why data isn't meeting the needs of its users and building the remediation roadmaps that fix it.

Business Change — operating model design, process improvement, and organisational alignment to help clients embed data-driven ways of working.

Actionable Intelligence — analytics strategy, KPI design, and decision-support frameworks that translate data into meaningful insight for senior stakeholders.

Day to day, you can expect to:

• Own workstreams end-to-end, from brief to client-ready output
• Build analysis, financial models, and structured presentations to a high standard
• Manage day-to-day client interactions — workshops, findings sessions, relationship-building at mid-level
• Support senior team members on delivery planning and risk management
• Mentor and review the work of junior analysts
• Contribute to the firm's growing library of methods, frameworks, and IP

What we are looking for

You are a structured, delivery-focused consultant with a track record of owning complex analytical workstreams and communicating findings clearly to clients.

You will have:

• 3–6 years of experience in a strategy consulting, data advisory, or professional services environment
• Clear workstream ownership — able to take a brief and deliver a high-quality output independently
• Strong analytical skills — comfortable building models, structuring analysis, and translating complex findings into clear client outputs
• Confident communication — written and verbal, with experience running client workshops and presenting findings
• Genuine domain depth in at least one area: data strategy, data governance and quality, financial modelling, investment case development, or analytics advisory
• Awareness of commercial context — scope, quality, and what good delivery looks like

You are likely coming from:

• A data strategy or analytics consultancy — PA Consulting, Baringa, Dufrain, Artefact, or a Big 4 data advisory practice
• A strategy house with data, transaction, or investment case exposure — EY-Parthenon, Deloitte S&O, PwC Strategy&, Oliver Wyman, or Kearney
• An economic or regulatory advisory practice with strong analytical and financial modelling foundations

You will not be a fit if:

• Your experience is primarily in technology delivery, data engineering, or platform implementation
• You have been in a PMO, programme management, or project coordination role rather than analytical advisory
• You have not owned external client workstreams independently
• Your consulting experience is under 3 years

Why now, why this firm

The field is genuinely emerging. Data Economics is being defined right now, and this firm is at the front of it. Joining at this stage means being part of building something, not inheriting a finished model.

The work is real from day one. No extended onboarding or shadow work. You will be on live engagements quickly, working on problems that matter to serious organisations — including some of the UK's largest national infrastructure clients.

The culture is built on trust. A small, high-calibre team with no unnecessary layers. Your work is visible, your contribution counts, and the people around you are genuinely excellent.

The package is competitive. Benchmarked against consulting market rates, with private health cover, enhanced mental health support, generous family policies, and access to professional financial advice.

Flexibility with purpose. Around 60% in-person collaboration in London, with genuine autonomy to shape the rest of your week around where you do your best work.

This role is being recruited on a confidential basis by Nicholson Glover. The client's name will be shared with suitable candidates at first conversation stage.

To apply or find out more, please get in touch with Francis Nicholson at Nicholson Glover.

London | Hybrid | Permanent, Full Time | Competitive salary + bonus