Data Science Consultant | Digital & Insights | Strategic Communications

Who We Are

FTI Consulting is the world’s leading expert-driven consulting firm. Over the last 40 years, FTI Consulting experts have served as the trusted advisor to Fortune 500 companies and the world’s leading law and private equity firms when they are facing their greatest opportunities and challenges. Our strong performance and continued success are a direct reflection of the ambition, energy, and commitment of our talented professionals across the globe to make a positive impact for our clients and communities.

At FTI Consulting, you’ll be inspired and empowered to make an impact on headline matters that change history. Working side by side with the world’s leading experts in your field, you’ll be surrounded by an open collaborative culture that embraces diversity, recognition, professional development and most importantly, you.

There’s never been a more exciting time to join FTI Consulting and this is where you will do the most exciting and fulfilling work of your career.

Are you ready to make an impact?

The Strategic Communications practice of FTI Consulting offers specialist expertise across a variety of disciplines and sectors including financial services, retail and consumer, natural resources, energy, public affairs, real estate, professional services, technology media telecoms (TMT), healthcare and life sciences.

Our Digital & Insights practice is seeking an intellectually curious and creative consultant to support our growing analytics team across the EMEA region. The industry today is undergoing a major transformation due to the advent of AI and a continuous increase in volume and velocity of data, with the team seizing these novel opportunities to protect brands and elevate reputations. Our function is uniquely positioned at the intersection of communications and data science to provide decision intelligence that shifts public perception.

We use data to establish what should be said, who needs to be targeted, and how to make messages resonate.

The successful candidate will help to design, develop, deploy data science approaches to communications challenges. They will also work with consultants and other subject matter experts to create holistic solutions for clients.

• Support projects in the areas of audience & influencer insights, conversation & media analysis, campaign & message performance, event assessment and more
• Use existing platforms, tools and APIs to collect and analyse data, both structured and unstructured, including text, images and video
• Use statistics, machine learning techniques and AI to solve complex challenges for our clients, especially regarding their communication and reputation management efforts
• Build tools, dashboards, pipelines or applications to provide new capabilities internally and to clients
• Detect hidden patterns, identify trends, reveal drivers, predict developments, visualise similarities and differences, and otherwise leverage data to deliver actionable insights
• Collaborate with other experts on the research, planning and development of data-driven projects
• Support new business efforts by delivering data-driven insights to inform our approach
• Assist in the development of presentations, client decks and pitches to drive organizational results
• Support with embedding innovation across the firm and increasing data maturity, especially around GenAI adoption and developments within Natural Language Processing

Examples of client challenges the team has solved include:

• Establishing key influencers and narrative risks posing a threat to a global merger
• Conducting media and social media due diligence before a major deal and CEO change
• Auditing and optimizing brand presence across consumer-facing AI systems

We are committed to investing and supporting you in your professional development and we have developed a range of programs focused on fostering leadership, growth and development opportunities. We aim to promote continuous learning and individual skills development through on-the-job learning, self-guided professional development courses and certifications. You’ll be assigned a dedicated coach to mentor, guide and support you…