Principal/Senior Consultant
Job Description
We are looking for a Principal or Senior Consultant (4-7 years’ experience), to manage the delivery of complex digital and data initiatives across our Gold Coast client portfolio. This role blends strong delivery leadership with stakeholder engagement, and technical data skills, requiring confidence working directly with senior clients and delivery partners to drive momentum and achieve digital and data outcomes.
This role is responsible for the planning, governance, and execution of data, digital, and system enabled initiatives, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, and to agreed quality standards. Success in the role depends on the ability to translate digital strategy into pragmatic, executable delivery plans that deliver measurable business value, in the built environment, construction and infrastructure sector.
The successful candidate will improve efficiency across our Gold Coast client portfolio by streamlining end‑to‑end processes, clarifying roles and responsibilities, and enhancing information management and use of digital tools. This includes designing and implementing improvements that ensure accurate, timely information supports better decision‑making and operational performance.
A key component of the role is data analytics, dashboard reporting, and data warehousing, including developing client insights to improve portfolio, program, and project performance, and building dashboards across schedule, cost, risk, safety, and commercial metrics. The role also strengthens data management frameworks and increases data capability across client organisations.
This role suits someone who has strong interpersonal and negotiation skills, who thrives in a client‑facing consulting project environment, can operate across multiple workstreams, be hands on in developing dashboards and data analytics, manages complex digital delivery and understands the intersection between digital and capital projects across the construction industry.
Technical data skills:
- Power BI, Tableau (Intermediate - required)
- SQL, Python, R (Basic)
- PowerApps, Power Automate (Basic)
- Fabric, Databricks, Snowflake (Basic)
- Visual Studio Code, Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (Basic)
- Jira, Trello, Planner, Microsoft Project, Slack (Basic)
Qualifications
A degree in one of the following: Business, Economics, Mathematics, Commerce, Engineering, Maths.
4+ years professional experience in one of the following fields: management consulting, business analysis, or data and digital transformation.
Strong dashboard design, data analytics and creative reporting experience
Experienced in digital transformation programs and system implementations
Enthusiastic, ability to work autonomously and strong problem solving and consulting experience
Knowledge of construction, infrastructure and capital project management activities
Strong stakeholder management, verbal communications, and project management capability working in teams across multiple clients
Additional Information
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Company Description
Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, defence, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.
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