Senior Consultant - Digital Policy, Data & AI - Industries

Senior Consultant - Digital Policy, Data & AI

EY Consulting is a fast-moving, high-growth area within EY, and this with a huge potential for you. It offers variety, challenge, responsibility and the opportunity to realize your leadership potential. Our competency teams are focused on helping our clients to improve their business performance and operational efficiency, whilst managing risk. We help clients by delivering assessment, transformation and assurance solutions in specialty areas, like finance, supply chain, strategic choices, risk management, cyber security and technology.

At EY, we help governments, European institutions and public-sector organisations navigate complex digital, technological and societal transformations. We combine policy expertise with data-driven analysis and technology insight to help decision-makers address some of Europe's most pressing challenges.

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The Opportunity: Your Next Adventure Awaits?

As a Senior Consultant, you will help deliver complex advisory assignments at the intersection of public policy, digital transformation, artificial intelligence and data. You will work with multidisciplinary teams across Europe and contribute to projects with tangible impact for citizens, businesses and public administrations.

The Senior Consultant is a client-facing delivery role with responsibility for leading defined workstreams, coordinating analytical activities and translating complex evidence into clear, actionable recommendations. The role combines policy and technology analysis with project management, stakeholder engagement and the production of high-quality client deliverables.

Within the Digital Policy, Data & AI team, the Senior Consultant works across multidisciplinary and international teams, contributes to engagements for European institutions and public-sector organisations, and supports the development of junior colleagues. The role also contributes to proposals, thought leadership and the identification of new opportunities aligned with client needs.

Your Key Responsibilities

We are looking for an ambitious consultant with a strong analytical background and a passion for technology and public policy. You will combine quantitative and qualitative analysis with stakeholder engagement, workstream management and the ability to translate evidence into practical recommendations.

• Artificial intelligence, trustworthy AI and AI governance
• Digital transformation of the public sector
• Data policy, data governance and interoperability
• Emerging technologies, innovation and digital sovereignty
• Competitiveness and industrial policy
• Research, innovation and digital programmes
• Evaluations, impact assessments and foresight studies

Project delivery

• Lead defined workstreams within complex consulting engagements and coordinate day-to-day delivery activities.
• Design and apply research and analytical approaches for policy studies, evaluations and strategic assignments.
• Manage data collection, analysis and synthesis, developing robust evidence bases for policy and strategic decisions.
• Produce high-quality reports, policy studies, presentations and client-ready deliverables.
• Monitor scope, deadlines, dependencies and quality across assigned workstreams.

Client and stakeholder engagement

• Build trusted working relationships with clients and stakeholders from European institutions, public authorities, industry, research and civil society.
• Prepare and facilitate workshops, consultations, interviews and expert discussions.
• Present analytical findings and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

Data and technology analysis

• Conduct quantitative analysis using tools such as Python and Excel.
• Translate complex datasets into clear strategic insights, visualisations and recommendations.
• Assess the policy, economic and organisational implications of AI and other emerging technologies.

Business development and team contribution

• Contribute to proposals, expressions of interest and other business development activities.
• Support the identification of emerging client needs and growth opportunities.
• Contribute to EY thought leadership, market positioning and knowledge development.
• Coach junior colleagues and provide constructive review of their analytical and drafting work.

Your Profile

You have:

Experience and education

• Approximately 2-4 years of relevant professional experience in consulting, policy advisory, public-sector advisory, research or a related field.
• A master's degree in economics, public policy, business, data science, engineering or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience delivering studies, evaluations, impact assessments, implementation assignments, digital transformation, or strategic advisory engagements.
• Experience working with public-sector stakeholders and multidisciplinary project teams.

Technical and consulting capabilities

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, with experience in quantitative and qualitative methods.
• Advanced Excel skills and experience with Python or another analytical programming language.
• Ability to implement AI based skills and process for daily operations.
• Ability to synthesize complex evidence into clear, actionable and well-substantiated recommendations.
• Excellent drafting, presentation and visual storytelling skills.
• Strong client orientation, stakeholder management skills and attention to quality.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver effectively under tight deadlines.
• Demonstrated affinity for, or a strong interest in, space and defense-related policy, technology and industrial topics.

Languages

• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Dutch and/or French is highly valued.
• Additional European languages are an asset.

What’s In It For You