Overview
Become a vital member of our Complex Projects, Delivery Partner team, proudly taking on some of the world's most exciting and prestigious projects. Join us, and you'll be part of our genuinely collaborative environment, where everyone is supported to make the most of their talents. It's'about recognising everyone's contributions equally while delivering excellence together.
When you join our practice team, you'll share our vision to be the industry's foremost capability in Estimating & Cost Advisory and always doing what's right.
Enjoy a diverse and exciting workload surrounded by talented colleagues ready to lend a hand. You'll support multi-disciplinary and specialist project teams on high-profile schemes across a range of sectors, delivering high impact estimating services to a range of key clients. Plus, you'll have the opportunity to grow your career and develop our internal capabilities.
We are looking to hire a Senior Consultant – Cost Intelligence to support our growing business. In Complex Projects we work across three major markets:
Infrastructure (Water, Defence, Aviation, etc.)
Transport (Rail, Highways, Local Authorities, etc.)
Energy (Nuclear, Renewable Energy, Power, etc.)
Your role
- Provide robust cost intelligence that stands up under scrutiny from senior stakeholders, independent reviewers, and external assurance bodies.
- Analyse large and complex datasets to understand cost behaviour, variability, uncertainty, distributions, outliers, and structural drivers.
- Own the analytical integrity of cost intelligence outputs, ensuring conclusions reflect data quality, uncertainty, and delivery context - not convenience.
- Help shape how cost data is interpreted, challenged, and relied upon across senior stakeholders, programme teams, commercial teams, and assurance bodies.
- Support the establishment of expectations for analytical rigour, proportionality, governance, and disciplined reasoning across the Cost Intelligence community.
- Test assumptions, methodologies, and narratives using structured, evidence‑based reasoning.
- Work closely with cost, commercial, and programme teams to ensure analysis aligns with scope maturity, delivery context, and decision needs.
- Contribute to shared analytical frameworks, benchmarks, models, and standards that advance consistency and quality across major programmes.
- Be a technical supporter of strong data governance, provenance, lineage and quality across all cost datasets.
- Where appropriate, support improved automation, analytical tooling, and standardisation to increase efficiency and consistency.
- Explain complex analysis, uncertainty, and limitations clearly to senior, non‑technical audiences, helping shape better‑informed decisions.
- Confidently defend analytical conclusions when asked, including from reviewers, senior stakeholders, and subject‑matter experts.
- Apply judgement, proportionality, and clarity - avoiding false precision and prioritising insight over volume.
About you
- Grounding in data analysis, applied mathematics, and statistical reasoning, including understanding variability, uncertainty, and confidence.
- Demonstrable critical‑thinking ability, particularly in environments where data is incomplete, biased, inconsistent, or imperfect.
- Some experience explaining and defending analytical outputs in high‑scrutiny settings where decisions have material consequences.
- Understanding of best practice data principles on projects, programmes and portfolios and the implications these have on analysis.
- Ability to transform poorly structured or uncontrolled data into reliable analytical inputs.
- Strong proficiency in analytical tools (Excel, Power BI, SQL; Python desirable) used in service of insight rather than reporting alone.
- Experience and/or understanding of working in reviewed, challenged, or audited analytical environments.
- Understanding of cost, commercial, capital project, or programme environments.
- Some familiarity with benchmarking, comparative analysis, assurance, or governance frameworks such as AACE, IPA, or Green Book.
- Intellectually rigorous, sceptical of weak inference and motivated by improving decision quality.
- Comfortable articulating clear, defensible analytical positions.
- Values clarity, proportionality, and disciplined reasoning over unnecessary complexity or excessive output.
Rewards & benefits
Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.
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About AtkinsRéalis
We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's'infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.
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Additional information
Security clearance
This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance.
We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability.
