Senior Consultant, Digital & Insights, Data Science | Strategic Communications

Overview

As a Senior Consultant in FTI’s Digital & Insights team in London, you will guide data-driven reputation and communications work for multinational clients. You will collaborate with cross-functional experts to design and deliver analytics-powered insights that inform strategy and messaging. The role emphasizes applied data science, NLP, and visual storytelling to shape client outcomes. This is a growth-focused opportunity in a fast-moving, prestigious consulting environment.

Responsibilities

• Support audience, influencer, conversation and media analysis projects
• Lead on small-scale insights engagements and collaborate on larger initiatives
• Utilize platforms to collect and analyze data, deploying AI-driven approaches
• Apply qualitative, statistical and machine learning methods to interpret data
• Work with data scientists to build custom solutions and processing pipelines
• Integrate multiple data sources to extract holistic insights
• Identify trends, drivers and patterns to deliver actionable communications insights
• Create compelling data visualizations and client-ready reporting
• Advocate for analytics within the firm to broaden adoption of data-driven solutions
• Collaborate with experts on research, planning and development of data-driven projects
• Support new business efforts with data-driven insights for proposals and pitches
• Contribute to presentations, client decks and pitches

Key requirements

• Experience in data science, data engineering or decision science roles
• Proven focus on AI platforms and solutions (e.g., LlamaIndex, HuggingFace, Claude Code)
• Ability to translate complex data into clear insights
• Skill in creating engaging visualizations
• Python, SQL and Excel data manipulation
• GitHub collaboration
• Familiarity with AWS or other cloud platforms
• Excellent English communication and presentation skills

• Curiosity
• Critical thinking
• Creative problem-solving
• Python
• SQL
• Excel

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