Lead Consultant

We're looking for an accomplished Lead Consultant to join our growing Professional Services team, helping some of the UK's leading organisations use GIS and Esri technology to solve complex challenges and achieve meaningful business outcomes.

As a Lead Consultant, you'll combine technical expertise, consulting judgement and customer leadership. You'll work closely with customers and Sales colleagues to understand business objectives, identify opportunities and shape propositions that connect Esri UK's capabilities to customer needs.

Alongside your customer-facing responsibilities, you'll provide senior technical leadership across projects, helping teams make sound decisions and delivering high-quality solutions. You'll also play an important role in coaching and mentoring other consultants.

This is an opportunity for an experienced consultant who is ready to take greater ownership of customer relationships, influence business opportunities and develop their leadership capability.

Build trusted relationships with customers and act as a trusted advisor on the use of GIS and Esri technology

Understand customer strategies, challenges and priorities and identify where GIS and Esri technology can deliver meaningful value

Work closely with Sales colleagues to identify opportunities and shape compelling propositions

Provide senior technical leadership across customer projects and work packages

Guide solution components through design, build, test and deployment

Support estimation, planning and technical decision-making across projects

Bring practical delivery experience and technical credibility to customer and commercial conversations

Work collaboratively with Project Managers, Solution Architects, consultants and wider business teams

Provide technical and consulting input into proposals and bids

Coach and mentor Senior Consultants and less experienced colleagues

Share knowledge and contribute to the development of our Professional Services capability

Maintain awareness of developments across GIS, technology and relevant customer sectors

Have strong experience in GIS, technology consulting, professional services or a related discipline

Have significant practical experience working with Esri technology and the ArcGIS platform

Have a proven track record of delivering successful customer projects and outcomes

Are confident engaging with customers to understand their objectives and influence their thinking

Can translate complex business or technical challenges into practical propositions and solutions

Have strong technical judgement and experience providing leadership within project delivery

Can communicate effectively with senior stakeholders across technical and non-technical audiences

Enjoy coaching and mentoring other consultants and helping colleagues develop

Have strong commercial awareness and understand how consulting can create value for both customers and the business

At Esri UK, you'll be part of a growing, ambitious company where people are encouraged to bring their ideas, develop their careers and make a real difference.

We're proud of our culture. We believe in working collaboratively, sharing knowledge and supporting each other, while giving our people the trust and flexibility to do their best work.

You'll have the opportunity to work with talented people, learn from experts in their fields and contribute to work that has a genuine impact on communities, businesses and the environment.

If you're looking for a role where you can grow, make a difference and be part of a team that cares about what it does, we'd love to hear from you.

We also offer:

Generous annual bonus scheme (circa 20%)

6% company pension

Private healthcare and Cash plan

Monthly gym/wellbeing contribution

Enhanced family-friendly policies

Paid volunteering opportunities

Cycle to Work scheme

Flexible working and support for continual learning and development

& more!

Esri UK is the country's leading geospatial technology company, helping organisations understand the relationship between people, places and data to solve real-world problems that affect communities, businesses and the environment each and every day.

Behind every map is a story. From tackling climate resilience and supporting sustainability goals to enabling digital transformation and economic growth, our technology helps organisations understand what's happening, why it's happening and what action to take next.

We're a growing, ambitious business with a strong culture, a passion for innovation and a commitment to developing our people.