Key responsibilities
This is an opportunity to join a technically accomplished team in a wide-ranging role combining technical project work, consultancy services, project management and sales support.
CACI’s location planning team work on a wide variety of projects across the retail, leisure, finance, property and public sectors in the UK and internationally. Project work may include building statistical/mathematical models, using predictive/forecasting techniques and performing in-depth geographical analysis. This ultimately leads to providing recommendations, bespoke analysis and consultancy services to enable our clients to enhance and develop their location and customer strategies.
The ideal candidate’s background will be in an analytical role examining network performance and outlet/branch functions within retail, property, leisure or finance. Hence a good knowledge of the UK geography, statistical modelling techniques and issues affecting high street and consumer led businesses is required.
The role will require good problem solving skills and the ability to be pragmatic and apply knowledge of retail and geography to ensure recommendations are practical and in-line with client objectives. A high degree of client contact will be involved from the offset and therefore candidates should have excellent communication skills, both written and oral, and be comfortable presenting to senior audiences.
Core skills, knowledge, experience required
- Educated to at least degree level in a subject involving practical application of statistical techniques (e.g. geography, applied statistics, operational research, economic, engineering)
- Interest in pursuing a career in the following areas: location planning consultancy, retail location strategy planning, demographic/customer analysis
- 2-5 years’ experience in a similar role
- Excellent Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills (Access is also desirable but not essential)
- Knowledge of the UK retail landscape/geography
- Excellent written/verbal English
- Good presentation skills
Desirable skills and experience
- Applicants from other non-numerate degree disciplines will be considered if there is evidence of a high level of numeracy (e.g. strong Maths A level)
- Statistical modelling techniques (an advantage but not essential)
- Knowledge of SPSS, SAS or SQL is beneficial but not essential
- Exposure to and/or appreciation of GIS software and its applications is beneficial but not essential
About the business division
The Location Strategy & Analytics team, based in our head office in Kensington, London, is responsible for delivering geographically based analysis and insight to clients. We provide consultancy, tools and recommendations to help our clients develop an optimal locational strategy fitting their customer base, operational requirements, business drivers and company objectives. Projects are typically between a week and 6 months, ranging from performance analysis and customer profiling through to development of fully customised spatial interaction models. We work closely with our clients to ensure we understand their aims and objectives, incorporate their feedback and knowledge, and develop a solution to meet their needs.
To apply please email your CV to Patrick, Tom or James.
Division: Location Planning Group
Manager: Patrick Tate, Tom Hewer, James Stevens
Contact email: Patrick Tate – ptate@caci.co.uk, Tom Hewer – thewer@caci.co.uk, or James Stevens – jstevens@caci.co.uk
Website: http://www.caci.co.uk/careers/view/location-planning-consultant1