Ramboll Management Consulting is an international management consultancy firm with approx. 600 consultants. Our offices are located in Aarhus, Copenhagen, Berlin, Hamburg, Brussels, Oslo, Stockholm and Helsinki. We provide consulting services within the areas of management, IT, research and survey. We have over 35 years of experience from projects throughout the world and we carry out 700 projects a year.
Ramboll is a leading engineering, design and consultancy company employing close to 12,300 experts with almost 300 offices in 35 countries and with a significant presence in the Nordics, North America, the UK, Continental Europe, Middle East and India. We constantly strive to achieve inspiring and exacting solutions that make a genuine difference to our customers, the end-users and society as a whole.
Experienced consultant to join Ramboll Management Consulting’s European Policy and Economics team in Brussels
Do you want to work with policy evaluation and research in an international environment with challenging and very dynamic projects on current European issues?
The European Policy department at Ramboll Management Consulting supports evidence-based policy making by providing evaluation and research services for the European Commission, the European Parliament and many European agencies. We carry out evaluations, economic analysis, impact assessments and studies in a wide range of policy areas such as home affairs and migration, education and culture, employment and social affairs, regional development, energy and transport, internal market and industry. In doing so, we seek to contribute to sustainable societies by balancing the economic, social, environmental and climatic effects of our projects, thereby meeting the needs of the current generation without jeopardizing the ability of future generations to satisfy their needs.
We are currently looking for an experienced consultant to join our Brussels office.
The job
You need to be able to work in several of the fields in which we carry out assignments; however, the ideal candidate has both strong evaluation skills and sector expertise in at least one of the following overarching areas in which our team operates and has framework contracts:
- Public policy: employment and social affairs, education and culture, migration and home affairs.
- Business policy: internal market, industrial policy and entrepreneurship, taxation.
- Sustainable policy: environment, energy, transport, climate change.
Your responsibilities will cover the whole project cycle, from developing a winning proposal, to acquisition to project completion. Together with other team members, you will be responsible for delivering high quality products and services, from the management of bids and projects, through planning and data collection, to the final analysis of results and the preparation, as well as, presentation of reports. Sometimes the data collection will take place in other EU countries, thus availability and flexibility to travel is essential.
Your profile
You will need:
- A Master’s degree in political science, law, economics, business or similar field.
- At least 5 years of relevant professional working experience in consulting, conducting research, evaluation, feasibility studies and impact assessments. Experience in successfully delivering research and evaluation/impact assessment projects and contracts for the European Commission, governments and agencies.
- Ability to and experience in taking a lead role in the development of winning proposals.
- High degree of motivation to take on responsibility and create results through personal effort and strong teamwork. Excellent ability to build and maintain relationships with both key clients and partners as well as internally with colleagues across the Ramboll Group.
- An exceptional analytical capacity which you are able to take advantage of through your strong writing, communication and presentation skills. We expect you to be fluent in spoken and written English and command fluentlyone ortwo other EU languages.
- Excellent project management skills, including ability to attend to detail as well as maintain an overview, and to take into account quality, time and budget constraints while focussing on the client’s needs. Ability to work on multiple projects to tight deadlines in a fast-moving professional environment.
- Practical experience working on evaluation assignments and impact assessments for the European institutions, most notably the European Commission.
- Interest and proven sectorial expertise in one of the areas where we operate and have framework contracts, as detailed above.
We offer an exciting, informal and professional working environment, where knowledge and expertise are shared across departments and competence fields, and where you will find many opportunities to work closely with sector experts, as well as evaluation specialists.
We are a young and dynamic team and our working environment encourages the free exchange of ideas in an atmosphere of trust and support. This is also why we are fully dedicated to the personal and professional development of our people.
In our European Policy department you will find around 20 committed colleagues, with competencies in political science, sociology, law, economics and international business who work both from our Head Office in Copenhagen and our Brussels office. You will also work closely with around 50 colleagues involved in our European Policy and Economics competence centre, and have access to a large pool of expertise in Ramboll Management Consulting and Ramboll Group throughout Europe and worldwide.
We offer a full time position as a senior consultant and a salary package to match your skills and previous experience. In addition, we offer a number of benefits, including a pension scheme and private hospital insurance.
We will provide you with opportunities to receive training, including through our extensive range of internal courses in e.g. project management and evaluation.
How to apply
If you would like to apply, please apply online using thelink below. Please note we will only consider on-line applications.
For more information, please visit our web-site. If you have any questions in relation to this position, please write to , being sure to include the reference “Senior consultant December 2015 vacancy” in the e-mail’s subject.
We look forward to receiving your application by8 January 2016.