Consultant
Are you looking for short-medium term, fun and enjoyable career change? One where you’ll directly contribute to the design and development of local and international design projects that bring people together across the entire Asia-Pacific (APAC) region?
About us at Populous
At Populous, our teams design the places where people love to be together. We are a unique global company built on the philosophy and power of drawing large groups of people together to have incredible experiences – all achieved through having the world’s best architects and designers!
We have designed iconic projects all over the world that encompass stadia, convention and exhibition centres, airports, integrated resorts, high performance training facilities, e-sports and entertainment arenas, and mixed-use venues. Each and every one of these projects possess a wide variety of design requirements and design outcomes that bring these projects to life to everyone who experiences them!
At our core, we are designers with a true focus on user experience, creating civic infrastructure that brings whole communities together for amazing experiences, all with a sustainable design approach and ethos. See more about our world-class projects and commitment to sustainable design at populous.com.
What are we looking for?
We are currently on the search for an in-house consultant to fill a critical role in our Brisbane office, working across a variety of projects within Australia and the wider Asia-Pacific (APAC).
This role is a full-time permanent opportunity working within our Consulting and Activation team. The projects within this team are varied and wide ranging from Wayfinding, Brand Activation and Digital Spaces and will cover activities related to customer experience, strategy and commercial domains. It’s a very rare opportunity to work across such a diverse program of work and for someone to get exposure to a whole range of new and diverse consulting challenges and opportunities.
Specifically, we’re looking for someone who can, and has a passion for:
- Supporting the market leader with coordination and management of both internal and external projects that relate to customer experience, strategy, and commercial outcomes.
- Delivering insights and business advice to sport, entertainment, convention and exhibition centre, aviation, and major event clients.
- Performing quantitative and qualitative analysis to drive proposed solutions and outcomes of client propositions.
- Undertaking market, consumer, and competitor research tasks with the ability to draw out conclusions, highlight content and prepare materials for client and or internal presentations and reports.
- Reviewing and analysis of client data such as financial, performance, point of sale, hospitality, sponsorship and other financial customer data
- Preparation of client proposals and presentations using insights identified and collated in research.
- Developing and maintaining master repository of data under management from both internal and external clients.
- Working to a defined scope and identifying and mapping out schedules, milestones and required effort to complete tasks working with the market leader.
Further to this, the type of people we’re looking for those with:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business/Commerce or a related field
- Experience in research and data analysis to develop strategy, briefing notes and reports.
- Experience and ability to identify credible sources for research including academic libraries, internet and electronic sources.
- Understanding of the communication planning and the creative development processes
- High level skills in stakeholder engagement, including liaising with clients and other external stakeholder groups.
- High level skill in written, verbal and non-verbal communication for report writing, presentations and discussions with team members.
- High level skills in research, analysis, infographic development, presentations and reports.
- Intermediate skills in project planning, managing others for delivery and consolidating outcomes.
- Intermediate skills using Microsoft Office products and presentation software.
Why Populous stands out from the rest.
We don’t consider ourselves just another architecture and design company. At Populous, we know that our strength comes from our diversity. Our APAC team represent over 35 different nationalities from all walks of life. We actively celebrate these cultures and are committed to creating a connected team culture that embraces and supports this. We are a truly global company, with offices and projects located throughout the APAC region – which means endless opportunities, development and adventures.
We invest heavily in sustainable design practices and have active Corporate Social Responsibility and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion strategies in place that are making a difference to not only our team, but the wider communities in which we operate across the APAC region. We, of course, also provide industry leading salary packages, very flexible working arrangements based on individual circumstances, benefits and continuing professional development (CPD) opportunities, including in-house leadership development pathways and technical knowledge sharing workshops. Whatever you need to help succeed in your role, we’ll work with you to make it happen!
Finally, we also fully understand that work is only a portion of our lives and that our team have commitments, hobbies and interests outside of work. To support this, we offer benefits which enable a healthy balance between work and life and include things like a wide range of extended paid leave entitlements, industry leading support services for various stages of life and flexible working arrangements that cater for individual circumstances, just to name a few.
Want to see what it’s all about?
Yes, we want highly skilled people. That’s a given. But more importantly, we want people who embody our values, are truly energised by the work we do, that want to be involved in the awesome initiatives we are developing and, most importantly, who bring fun to our work environment and culture.
If you would like to have a chat to us about being part of the Populous team then feel free to pop your Cover Letter and resume through to us. We really look forward to chatting to you very soon!