Associate (Rail Advisory)

Overview

In this role you apply extensive experience to win and deliver rail advisory projects, ensuring value, revenue, and margin discipline. You’ll work in the Rail Advisory team, collaborating across groups to shape client-winning solutions and robust deliveries. You will lead on demand and revenue forecasting, economic appraisal, and project management, influencing decisions for clients such as rail operators and public bodies. This is a hands-on role with leadership responsibilities and opportunities to raise SYSTRA’s profile through thought leadership and mentoring.

Responsibilities

• Business development support to hit work-winning and delivery targets
• Identify and nurture relationships with main client contacts and capture insights for colleagues
• Guide early exploration of opportunities and ensure evaluation criteria are met in proposals
• Ensure clear invoicing milestones and cash profiling in proposals
• Deliver projects on time, cost, quality, and contractual requirements
• Provide direction on contractual and financial matters and ensure client satisfaction targets
• Mentor less experienced project/proposal managers and share technical expertise
• Present to clients and stakeholders and contribute to thought leadership

Key requirements

• Experience delivering analytical or modelling projects using rail data (demand/revenue forecasting, performance modelling, economic appraisal, rail financial analysis)
• Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to build credibility with clients and colleagues
• Ability to manage own time and support others in delivery
• Proven ability to manage project delivery and oversee junior staff
• Solid understanding of rail demand forecasting methodologies, particularly PDFH
• Expertise using MOIRA and/or MOIRA2
• Experience in business case development following Green Book/DfT TAG guidance, with emphasis on the economic dimension
• Track record delivering analytical outputs to inform client decision-making (rail operators, DfT, Network Rail, local government)
• Knowledge of rail industry including passenger services and/or freight
• Degree qualification

• team player
• confident communicator
• credible with clients and colleagues
• rail data analytics
• demand forecasting
• economic appraisal

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