Junior Network Consultant

Are you looking for a fresh challenge? Interested in supporting businesses in the fast-moving world of telecoms? Our networks team is looking to bring in exceptional individuals to join our industry-leading specialists to create lasting change in the ever-changing, diverse and demanding enterprise and telecommunications industries. You will be given the opportunity to shine, excel and grow. You will have responsibility from day one for specific deliverables and the opportunity to engage with C-suite clients. We will support you in deepening your technical expertise, consulting skills and taking increasing leadership roles within the project and business. Flexible working - We are guided by our client work and needs; however, you have autonomy to manage your time and diary to suit your work/life balance., We work with clients on some of the telecoms and technology sectors' most challenging issues, including commercial and technology strategy development, systems and architecture design, network and digital transformation, systems/managed service procurement, and development of innovative and novel products. We work closely across PA to build multi-disciplinary project teams. You'll get to work with experts in disciplines as wide-ranging as strategy, design, operating model, sourcing - and across a wide range of industries, including consumer, energy and utilities, financial services, government, healthcare and telecoms itself, to drive enduring change and create results that make a real difference for our clients. As a Networks consultant, you will be working on a range of cutting-edge projects that will both challenge and reward, working in a highly collaborative environment. You will work with clients at senior levels on high profile, high impact projects. Each project at PA will be different. You might spend your time gathering and analysing information or delivering presentations and workshops to clients. You will work with clients' technical experts as well as engaging directly with senior leaders. The one thing you can be sure of is that our work is important to our clients - they only engage PA when they face challenges, opportunities and issues that they are both critical to their businesses and that they are not confident they can solve properly for themselves. As a result, our work is high-profile and can be challenging - but that also brings a strong element of satisfaction when we deliver brilliant work for them! It's rewarding to know that what we're working on what matters most to our clients. Past projects include:

• Working with a mobile infrastructure company to prepare a technical and commercial proposal to deliver mobile coverage on an urban transport network and leverage the associated fibre infrastructure for wholesale and broadband services across the city
• Designing and procuring UK MOD's future satellite communications services
• Defining the strategy for next generation mobile communications on the railway
Each project may bring a new client, a new set of problems to solve and a new team to work with - it can be challenging, but new challenges are also exciting and satisfying.


• Strong academic background
• Strong analytical skills and be able to apply more creative and abstract thinking to help develop ingenious solutions.
• As a client facing role, you will be expected to engage and present to clients with strong verbal and written comms, able to highlight recommendations and insights.
• Adaptable, able to think on your feet and for yourself, able to pick up new areas quickly
• Experience in telecoms industry or enterprise networking is highly desirable, but we don't expect a deeply experienced and expert individual - we're looking for someone who will adapt and grow with our team
  
  We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.
As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results. We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport. Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands., Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples' working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work. Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world's most complex challenges. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self. Find out more about Life at PA here. We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits


• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
• Generous company pension scheme
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
• Annual performance-based bonus
• PA share ownership
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)